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Has anyone watched Louisville this year? Strengths? Weaknesses? And key players of concern?
 
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IRISHDODGER said:
Sampson said it was a sellout
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A sellout is 98% of tickets sold.
Not how many people actually show up.
Ticket sites buy thousands of tickets, which count as sold, & a lot of them don’t get resold so people aren’t in those actual seats.
The reported “record” number is how many tickets are actually scanned.
So the game can be sold out and still be well below the 60,000 capacity number.
 
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It's really hard to get "up" every week so this game could be a challenge... with that being said, it's hard to see them moving the ball consistently and this is the kind of game where if the ND offense can get to 30+ it shouldn't be in doubt.
 
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IrishLax said:
It's really hard to get "up" every week so this game could be a challenge... with that being said, it's hard to see them moving the ball consistently and this is the kind of game where if the ND offense can get to 30+ it shouldn't be in doubt.
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We’re going through a run that’s similar to teams that play sec west or big ten east… you can have 3-5 tough games in a row there… difference is Louisville duke and usc haven’t had this run
 
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Reaper97 said:
A sellout is 98% of tickets sold.
Not how many people actually show up.
Ticket sites buy thousands of tickets, which count as sold, & a lot of them don’t get resold so people aren’t in those actual seats.
The reported “record” number is how many tickets are actually scanned.
So the game can be sold out and still be well below the 60,000 capacity number.
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Right. Just noting what Sampson said on a pod about the game being a sellout. I realize that doesn’t mean every seat will have a corresponding butt in it. Hell, how many lame ND games were technically sellouts despite empty seats when they were trying to keep that sellout streak alive?
 
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IRISHDODGER said:
Right. Just noting what Sampson said on a pod about the game being a sellout. I realize that doesn’t mean every seat will have a corresponding butt in it. Hell, how many lame ND games were technically sellouts despite empty seats when they were trying to keep that sellout streak alive?
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That’s how Nebraska keeps their bullshit consecutive sellout streak alive.
About 5 years ago, just before they hired Frost, boosters bought close to 5k seats & gave them to kids’ charities to preserve the sellout. My father-in-law was one of the boosters who paid. He was pissed last year and was one of the group who said he didn’t care the buyout, the wanted Frost gone immediately. And for those who don’t remember, if they waited just over a week & fired him, it saved them close to $10 million. They fired him that night and the boosters ate the $10 million.
Nebraska is a different place when it comes ti the Huskers. Strait-laced, men of God, turn into demons on Saturdays there. I’ve sat in the boxes there with in-laws and watched Catholic Church deacons F-bomb the coaches & throw things. It’s hilarious.
But all the ones with us root for ND as their second team because of the church.
 
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Reaper97 said:
That’s how Nebraska keeps their bullshit consecutive sellout streak alive.
About 5 years ago, just before they hired Frost, boosters bought close to 5k seats & gave them to kids’ charities to preserve the sellout. My father-in-law was one of the boosters who paid. He was pissed last year and was one of the group who said he didn’t care the buyout, the wanted Frost gone immediately. And for those who don’t remember, if they waited just over a week & fired him, it saved them close to $10 million. They fired him that night and the boosters ate the $10 million.
Nebraska is a different place when it comes ti the Huskers. Strait-laced, men of God, turn into demons on Saturdays there. I’ve sat in the boxes there with in-laws and watched Catholic Church deacons F-bomb the coaches & throw things. It’s hilarious.
But all the ones with us root for ND as their second team because of the church.
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Didn't know this. That's awesome, respect to them all around.
 
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Lberry said:
Didn't know this. That's awesome, respect to them all around.
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I’ve told this story before on here, but when I first met my wife, she was attending Arizona & playing soccer so we came back to Omaha to meet her family Thanksgiving week.
That was a year Nebraska was ranked high and playing Colorado on their Friday traditional game back then.
Colorado started blowing Nebraska out in the huge upset, and her female cousin (a grad student at NU), who didn’t even know me hardly, got mad and threw a metal fork at my face.
They are psychos out there.
I can tell stories for days.
 
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When do Michigan’s 3-5 tough games in a row start?
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scUM has a 9-game preseason schedule then (being well rested) they have 3 actual games on their schedule starting mid-Nov. (a typical season for them of course) ... @ PSU, @ Maryland (meh) and tO$U at the "Pig House".
 
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irish4ever said:
scUM has a 9-game preseason schedule then (being well rested) they have 3 actual games on their schedule starting mid-Nov. (a typical season for them of course) ... @ PSU, @ Maryland (meh) and tO$U at the "Pig House".
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The reckoning comes next season. They have:

Fresno State
Texas
UCLA
Wisconsin
@ USC
@ Ohio State


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Lberry said:
ND is due to actually punch one of these basketball school's having a good year, right in the mouth. I think ND cruises and starters are out for 4th quarter heading into SC.
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I was shocked to see Plummer still playing. What's this, his 3rd team...? I haven't watched one minute of Louisville this year, but this game should be like the Duke game. Brohm, like Elko is a good coach, but Notre Dame has better players all over the field. They lean on Louisville and the ND lead slowly snowballs throughout.

35-17 Notre Dame.
 
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Louisville is crazy cocky for a team that has effectively played no one and is reliant on two decent skill players to produce offense. Plummer is who he is, and it's not an NFL QB. Their speedy receiver is not Marvin Harrison. Their RB is not better than who players go up against in practice during camp. They lack NFL talent on both sides of the ball besides a handful of guys. They could not run the ball at all on NC State. They are a couple plays away from being 2-3. They had one score games against Georgia Tech (bad), NCST (ok), and Indiana (bad)... they trailed in two of those games, and in the other they needed a goal line stand to win.

Hard to see Louisville getting over 30 and hard to see ND under 30 unless ACC refs turn the game rigging up to 12 (Duke was an 11 out of 10... unreal what that clown in the booth did to try to influence the game). It's college football so anything is possible, but Louisville just does not match up well with a healthy ND. They are going to have to pray that ND is mentally and physically exhausted because a "dialed in" ND is going to jump on them early and not look back.

ND 31 Louisville 21
 
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IrishLax said:
Louisville is crazy cocky for a team that has effectively played no one and is reliant on two decent skill players to produce offense. Plummer is who he is, and it's not an NFL QB. Their speedy receiver is not Marvin Harrison. Their RB is not better than who players go up against in practice during camp. They lack NFL talent on both sides of the ball besides a handful of guys. They could not run the ball at all on NC State. They are a couple plays away from being 2-3. They had one score games against Georgia Tech (bad), NCST (ok), and Indiana (bad)... they trailed in two of those games, and in the other they needed a goal line stand to win.

Hard to see Louisville getting over 30 and hard to see ND under 30 unless ACC refs turn the game rigging up to 12 (Duke was an 11 out of 10... unreal what that clown in the booth did to try to influence the game). It's college football so anything is possible, but Louisville just does not match up well with a healthy ND. They are going to have to pray that ND is mentally and physically exhausted because a "dialed in" ND is going to jump on them early and not look back.

ND 31 Louisville 21
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That’s the sole thing that concerns me. Just how much does ND have left in the tank after Ohio State and Duke? That said, they’re college kids, and an undefeated Louisville coupled with a night game is oddly comforting. That alone should garner ND’s attention and keep them from looking ahead to the following Saturday.
 
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