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NBC will turn the mikes on Charlie Weis for a few seconds and, once Charlie completes a few words leading up to an obvious profanity, they intelligently mute the mikes and go back to the beleaguered announcing NBC announcing team. They currently stand tied at 7-7, but it is a deceptive number: before the final drive of this half for Notre Dame, they had converted exactly one first down and had looked just as arrhythmic as they looked in their 3 win debacle of 2007. Their only score came off a blocked punt followed up by a touchdown thrown to a wide open receiver standing over his defender who, true to form, had fallen down on the play. This post originally appeared on the Sporting Blog. For more, see The Sporting Blog Archives.
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Irish players chest-thumping and flexing over scoring on SDSU? My how the mighty have fallen. This is (still) one bad team.
by Mighty Bleistift on Sep 6, 2008 7:18 PM EDT reply actions
Mr. Spencer Hall -
I concurr with your assessment regarding ND football, some experts actually have them playing in a bowl this year.
by sportsguru on Sep 6, 2008 10:50 PM EDT reply actions
This Irish team just doesn’t seem to be making any improvements. The defense is solid but the offense just isn’t getting better. I know they are young but there is no difference between this team on the field today and the one we saw all last season. I bought the youth argument last year but now I think there is a problem with the coaching staff not getting these kids to perform at a higher level. They simply aren’t developing their players. Good thing they have an easy schedule this year.
by USCGG on Sep 7, 2008 2:44 AM EDT reply actions
as a die-hard Irish fan i have both hope and worries about the rest of the season. first off a win is win and at least its against a D1 one school unlike allot of the SEC teams who schedule sub division schools. second they showed allot by coming back when they was down. that shows allot. the passing game looks like it has the ability to be good. what worries me though is that we didn’t run the ball all that well. SDSU let a div2 school rush for over 200 yards, but Weis seem interested in running the ball even when he has a guy like Hughes who is cow bell type back. Our defense looked good and held stout despite being put in bad positions. anyway all in a all it was a good day. i just hope this was opening day jitters and nothing else.
by trackhead05 on Sep 7, 2008 3:10 AM EDT reply actions
I agree that the Irish looked almost as bad as last year, however I am also holding out hope that this will be their worst game (this year). There seemed to be some improvements, but it was against SDSU. Many people were expecting more (like me), but oh, well it may be another long year. We’ll see. I’m still holding any further opinion ‘til next game. Then I’ll probably lose it.
by tnirish on Sep 7, 2008 6:01 PM EDT reply actions
This is the same 3-9 Irish team as last year. I don’t care how much the very effeminate Tom Hammond of NBC or the homer Lou Holtz sugar coat ND’s performance. Pathetic is the best way to describe the play on the field. Enough said!
by balzakblue on Sep 7, 2008 6:18 PM EDT reply actions
This is also their first game of the year and there has to be some serious cobwebs to clean up. I say we’ll know more about the Irish this season when they play Michigan next week.
by jkra0512 on Sep 7, 2008 6:49 PM EDT reply actions
How can Weis not be fired? He predicted 9-12 wins this year and they look worse than last year??
by franknbeans on Sep 8, 2008 10:10 AM EDT reply actions
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