Post Game Observations

[phork]

It will be interesting to see what shoelace is doing with his life in 5 years......judging by his television interviews and since he is too small for the NFL,I can see him having a promising career in maybe the custodial sciences or maybe the food service industry......Michigan should be ashamed for having thugs like that on their campus....I'll bet you the guy can't spell Michigan!

Not sure if you are joking or not, but I would love to have Denard on my team. Kid is a class act. I have a sneaking suspicion he'll be on some NFL team, not as QB, but a slot WR or something. The kid can flat out play.

 

[Who'saWildManNow]

It will be interesting to see what shoelace is doing with his life in 5 years......judging by his television interviews and since he is too small for the NFL,I can see him having a promising career in maybe the custodial sciences or maybe the food service industry......Michigan should be ashamed for having thugs like that on their campus....I'll bet you the guy can't spell Michigan!

Dude, I hate Michigan like the rest of us but you're wrong there. I've watched a ton of his interviews and he is a very respectful and positive kid. He's got my respect.

 

[WakeUpEchoes]

It will be interesting to see what shoelace is doing with his life in 5 years......judging by his television interviews and since he is too small for the NFL,I can see him having a promising career in maybe the custodial sciences or maybe the food service industry......Michigan should be ashamed for having thugs like that on their campus....I'll bet you the guy can't spell Michigan!

Dude, I don't like Michigan either, but the guy will have a degree from Michigan as an NCAA athlete. I think with the perspective of an academically demanding school like Notre Dame, you can't say he's a thug/will be unsuccesful (outside of football). I don't see any Clarette-esque tendencies in him, either.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

A great article by Keith Arnold can be found here.

We were expecting stage four, but the team is clearly in stage three. It helps explain the losses, and why we should still be optimistic.

The best part of the article is quoted from Bill Connelly of Football Outsiders, who calculated a lost point value from all of our TOs:

55.3
Value, in Equivalent Points, of Notre Dame’s 10 turnovers in two games this season. Almost eight touchdowns. They committed five more turnovers for 21.6 points in Ann Arbor this weekend — three inside Michigan’s 30 — and fell to 0-2 despite, on a play-by-play basis, outplaying their second straight solid opponent. The next time you think your team is being negatively affected by turnovers, realize it could be worse. On a play-for-play basis, Notre Dame has played like a Top 20 team this year. But 10 specific plays have massacred them.

Emphasis is mine.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

LoyalSonBiscuit via Twitter:

Per @KeithArnoldNBC 's article, ND has given away 55.3 points in TOs and lost 2 games by a combined margin of 7 points. F.

 

[Seanthornton]

It is til now that I feel that I can talk about the last two weeks.

Yes Im disapointed !

We should have beat the crap out of that Mich. team. From what I saw they played like a desparate High School team, and we played down to them. Robinson threw ugly passes behinde, over, under etc.........

We just executed poorly. There were times we looked incredible......only to turn the ball over. I can point out every little thing I saw but we all watched the game we know what happen.

I think the hardest thing for me was there last drive, Who was covering that reciever??? Its over and done with. !!

Lets look on to next week and hope they do well.


KEEP THE FAITH !!!!

GO IRISH !!!

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

“@hansensouthbend: ESPN averaged 7.541 million viewers for Saturday night's #NotreDame-Michigan football game. 5.1 million TV households, 5.2 rating.”

“@hansensouthbend: That gives ESPN 6 of the 7 largest audiences involving #NotreDame football since 2000 - the 2005 USC-ND game on NBC being the exception.”

“@hansensouthbend: Going back to 1996, ESPN scored more viewers for Saturday’s ND-Michigan game than for all but two of Notre Dame’s home game telecasts.”