Look, this is not last year. They are in fact quite overrated , sorry. They are a good team with a very good quarterback. They are NOT a top 5 team by any stretch, period. They will be overlooking us because they will be massive favorites and they will be looking towards the bowl game. I believe in the luck of the Irish, and we are due, so I have faith that it will swing back to us at the time we most need it. I am officially selling that Stanford team short right now. Certainly they are good but in no way do I think that they can't be beaten by us.
Couple of disagreements. How is Stanford not a top 5 team by any stretch? How are they overrated? They have played a weak schedule, sure, but they have waxed every single team on that schedule by 25 or more except for USC. They played their first top 25 team (UW) and kicked the living crap out of them...barely even needing to use their best player in the process. They have won more games in a row than any other team in the country. They played a team that kicked the crap out of us (at our home field), and beat them at their place. What else do you want them to do? If they are 'quite overrated', please tell me, name all the teams that are ranked behind them that you would rank ahead of them. If they aren't a top 5 team today, then name me all the teams that should be ahead of them.
Stanford has beaten everyone in front of them. They have done this without their best defensive player. They are still kicking everyone's arses. Even when they start out slow, they still kill people.
Now, with their injuries that have piled up recently, they are ready to be had by Oregon. Wouldn't surprise me if they lost this weekend at all. However, losing to Oregon without your top wideout, one of your top TE's (who is HUGE for this offense), your best defensive player, and some others, does not diminish what they have done this past year and a half. IMO they deserve every bit of their top 5 ranking.
And be absolutely damn sure, they will NOT overlook ND. Name one team in the past 5 years that has overlooked ND. Stanford, with a BCS bowl on the line and a chance to beat the might Irish of Notre Dame, will certainly not overlook us. They are beatable, as they start off slowly seemingly every game and their injuries are mounting, but it's not like ND is playing lights out and it's not like we're healthy either. Would be a monumental upset, no doubt.
Did he get banned for that small hand thing?
No, he was banned under a different name for ripping this site, its members, and its mods and for generally being a big *** (without being apologetic when it happened, even trying to come back under a different name the very day he was banned and talked more sh!t about the site), and tried to come back under a different name recently as if nothing happened. He was caught and banned again. I'm sure he'll be back.