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Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - Hurlburt88 - 01-03-2013
I also sense that Brian K. is a competent coach. One of the things that changed under his regime is player development, which was quite lame under Weiss who specialized in turning 5 star recruits into average players. No, ND will not fade away soon. they will be tough opponents for the foreseeable future.Â
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - dabigv13 - 01-03-2013
This is the same team that our anemic Nunes offense nearly (did?) took down at their place, and that needed a lot of luck to be a TERRIBLE Pitt team. Kelly is not a worldbeater.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - dabigv13 - 01-03-2013
Chip Kelly shouted our praises during the trophy presentation for the Fiesta Bowl...no press like free press...from your biggest intraconference rival. Nice.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-03-2013
Kelly was all class during the trophy presentation, and I think he spent almost as much time praising K-State/Snyder as he did talking about Oregon. And then he threw Stanford a bunch of time too, which I was not expecting. Is this a sign that he's about to depart for greener pastures?
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - Fuzzy Dunlop - 01-03-2013
dabigv or fullmetal, can you give some more details on what Kelly said about Stanford, for those of us who turned the game off?
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-03-2013
Lou Holtz was praising Oregon and talking about how the Ducks could beat any team out there...and then he said this.
"It's a shame that the field goal went through by Stanford."Â --Lou Holtz
Geez. Now I hope ND loses by a FG in triple OT (score should be 14-17, Bama) and Holtz has to retire out of shame.
Kelly said something about Stanford being a really good team and praised David Shaw (yup, mentioned Shaw) for "what he's done there."Â My memory is a little fuzzy; I spent too much time thinking about ways to fly GoodGrief to Miami so that he can punch Holtz in the nose after that comment in the post-game show.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - dabigv13 - 01-03-2013
In response to question about coming close to playing for a National Championship and maintaining their focus-
Chip Kelly-
"You know, we lost to a real good Stanford team, David Shaw's done a great job, but our guy's know you gotta come back...."
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-03-2013
Ahh right, right. More than I'd ever expect from Kelly. Holtz and Mark May need to swallow a couple of socks.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - jayasena - 01-03-2013
I've always liked Kelly's interviews/press conferences. There are some real gems in Ted Miller's highlights from the (pre-)Fiesta Bowl news conference (including a compliment to Marecic): http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/52113/some-wit-wisdom-from-chip-kelly
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-03-2013
The Sportscenter recap of the Fiesta Bowl leaves out any idiotic comments from Holtz/May, but Rece Davis gets to mention that Oregon is undefeated...in regulation.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - stan01 - 01-04-2013
My reasons for rooting against ND:
1. Not a single Notre Dame fan admitted that they got lucky and the refs made a mistake.
2. Lou Holtz.
3. Doug Randolph.
4. The media non-sense about the "SAT Bowl" between "two outstanding academic institutions."Â
5. Oh, the entitlement.Â
Enough said, Roll Tide.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - StannyBoy - 01-04-2013
Doug Randolph? I saw him tweeting players like Aziz and he acted like he was Stanford all the way. Yes he flipped to ND but I don't think he was going to get admitted, so he flipped to ND to lock up a spot in their class which was actually full on LBs at the time...maybe his parents wanted him closer to home but I never got that vibe to begin with so I doubt it.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-04-2013
stan01, don't forget this reason to root against ND: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/12/04/why-i-wont-be-cheering-for-old-notre-dame/
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - oman - 01-04-2013
(01-04-2013, 12:14 AM)stan01 link Wrote:My reasons for rooting against ND:
1. Not a single Northern Indiana Parochial College fan admitted that they got lucky and the refs made a mistake.
...
The gentle and loving and football-loving guiding hands of the Virgin Mary and her Son Jesus are not luck.
Not one ND fan admitted the refs made a mistake - JohnR34231 - 01-04-2013
Not totally sure that's true.
I recall the idea being raised on the flagpole once or twice on the ND site.
Needless to say, there weren't a lot of salutes.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-04-2013
I'm not sure the circles of devout Catholics really intersect with the brand of USB football fanatics on their board. Just a hunch.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - Cadet84 - 01-04-2013
Do the reasons to root against ND really need to extend beyond Lou Holtz? Why that man is allowed, much less paid, to speak (err, mumble incoherently) on television is beyond my comprehension.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - fullmetal - 01-04-2013
(01-04-2013, 02:02 PM)cadet84 link Wrote:Do the reasons to root against ND really need to extend beyond Lou Holtz? Why that man is allowed, much less paid, to speak (err, mumble incoherently) on television is beyond my comprehension.
They need to put him out to pasture if only because he's darn near unintelligible. For some reason, I happen to be fluent in grumpy old man (is that the real life equivalent of parseltongue?), so I was able to catch that bon mot he made last night on live TV about what a "shame" it was that the "field goal went in" to sink Oregon.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - Farm93 - 01-04-2013
(01-04-2013, 02:44 PM)fullmetal link Wrote:They need to put him out to pasture if only because he's darn near unintelligible. For some reason, I happen to be fluent in grumpy old man (is that the real life equivalent of parseltongue?), so I was able to catch that bon mot he made last night on live TV about what a "shame" it was that the "field goal went in" to sink Oregon.
Heard that too, right before I switched the channel to something other than a pre-BCS N.D. love fest.
The other thing I heard Holtz say was that he believes Oregon is and will finish as the #2 team in the country. That should be saved by ESPN, so that when 'Bama beats the domers silly we can all quickly note that even in his opinion that team from Indiana should be #3 at best.
Re: Our rooting interests/season end final ranking - Gauss - 01-04-2013
Wow, Texas A&M and Johny Football are legit. Very impressed with them (unlike with K-State and Klein, very disappointing). Alas, this means they might pass Stanford, especially if Alabama beats Notre Dame.
I know it's not a popular opinion here... but personally I hope the Irish win: It would make Stanford look better this year, give us a shot at top-5, and beating the National champion next year at the Farm would be sweet. Plus, I can't stand teams that disregard academics and sign 100+ players.