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There was a time I couldn't sleep after an ND loss. No more. A lost football game is less than a bump in the road.
GOOD STUFF!
Fully expecting losses to Duke, SC (blowout) and Clemson. L’ville likely as well. “Best chance in years” lol
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There was a time I couldn't sleep after an ND loss. No more. A lost football game is less than a bump in the road.
GOOD STUFF!
Anyone else think the whole idea of conferences is already on the way out the door and college football is just beginning the transition to some type of league system? It was ridiculous to have teams like Maryland and Rutgers in the Big 10 (sorry, I'm old), and it's even more ridiculous to have teams like USC in the Big 10, just as it is stupid to have Stanford in the ACC and Texas in the SEC.
I could see a weighted system, where maybe the top 20 teams would compete for a chance at a championship and lesser teams will compete at lower levels, but there would be an annual sorting, sort of like English soccer leagues.
Obviously, it's a money thing, but I bet there is someone out there who can figure out a way to get all these schools more money working in unison than they do working on their own.
I think the 12-team playoff may be the start of it.
I share your sentiments, logic, proposed fix and AGE.
The move towards FORMAL ELIMINATION PROCESSES to determine championships has been -- at all levels of sports -- INEXORABLE. College football is probably the one sport left with the most WIGGLE ROOM.
But I believe its day is coming as well.
And why not?
Besides -- having teams fly coast to coast to compete in ALL of their various sports is LUDICROUSLY expensive and goes against the grain of INCREASING PROFITS. You don't do that by MULTIPLYING COSTS just to accommodate the football programs. You work BOTH ends of the BUCK.
There's a better way than the current AD HOC/GRAB-BAG conference system that's RADICALLY REVISED every couple of years.
An overall league or layered series of leagues -- as you point out as with international football/soccer -- with REGIONAL CONFERENCES to preserve the HISTORIC RIVALRIES makes the most sense to me.
I hope those with some ACTUAL POWER to effect this kind of arrangment AGREE WITH ME.
I used to be that way about the Giants, especially in college and in my younger years. Live and die with every win and loss. But they stunk for so long that I was used to how bad they had gotten so it was easy to move on after a loss.
Despite the outcome there were more positive than negative from last weeks game and should be more than enough to build on
The issue for ND and losing a game early in the season is that they really lose control of their fate. I hope i'm wrong, but I see ND getting clobbered by USC as their second loss of the year. I do not see them losing to Duke, but Clemson could very well beat them too.
I guess we will know what this team and coaching staff are made of this week. If they're hung over and struggle with Duke.. it could be a long season. If the staff has them ready to make a statement and say we aren't done yet, they pound Duke, I think we'll be alright.
I guess we will know what this team and coaching staff are made of this week. If they're hung over and struggle with Duke.. it could be a long season. If the staff has them ready to make a statement and say we aren't done yet, they pound Duke, I think we'll be alright.
I think Notre Dame's offense will be able to put points on SC's defense.
I do, too. Last year, we had our first drive stuffed and we had another drive end in a turnover. Otherwise we matched scores. I think the more balanced offense we have this year will be able to counter whatever USC's D tries. On the other side of the ball, we need to contain Williams, which, as anyone who saw last year's game will tell you, is easier said than done.
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USC may be a shootout. They will probably put up 30 plus points on us. Can we keep up is the question. If we can win the turnover and special teams battle that will give us a good shot.
Getting an experienced coach such as one of these (and others suggested) means you get a coach with a number of bad losses already in the book. Lets give MF the opportunity to at least reach their level..
Winning or losing tomorrow has nothing to do with your absurd statement that there was more positive than negative in losing to OSU.
The negative in losing that game far outweighed any positive !
So its obscure to see the positives in a lose?
Thank God you were not coach the teams I've played on in HS
It’s not obscure to see the positives but they don’t outweigh the negative of a loss !
They do when you looked liked yiu belonged as compared to other games. That feeling will remove the doubts when your back is up against the wall
Now you’ve changed the issue.
What other games ?
Their back was up against the wall and unfortunately on and off field decisions and execution lost that game, hence I don’t see all of the positives outweighing the negative of not only the loss, but how they lost.
While there were mistakes on the field, as there always are, the mistakes on the sideline were far more egregious, ergo what positives do you draw from the sideline mistakes ?
Like great golfers who made a bad decision or executed poorly, I’m hoping that amnesia has set in and that they play and coach a great game.
Go Irish ! ☘️
Brother that's not changing anything.
The positive with h out weighted the loss was that were in the game, they knew the were controlling the game and some in fortune issues happen at the end of the game cost them the game.
I don't golf nor do I pay any attention to the game but I imagine its hard to compare an individual sport to a team sport.....to many moving parts but regardless I think we can agree that was last week and this is a new week and the Irish are not playing hungover
Agree, there doesn’t seem to be a hangover, but sloppy play generating all those penalties and no running game are killing them
Another penalty # 7
