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Old 09-16-2006, 06:13 PM
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Notre Dame looked awful week one and beat a garbage Penn State. If they weren't Notre Dame, they would not have had a top 5 ranking. They are not that good. The best teams are clearly Ohio State, Auburn, USC and I like West Virginia.
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Old 09-16-2006, 06:22 PM
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What a thrashing. The whole ND season shredded on a single fall afternoon. This is what happens win young kids get too over-confident.
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Old 09-16-2006, 08:22 PM
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Notre Dame looked awful week one and beat a garbage Penn State. If they weren't Notre Dame, they would not have had a top 5 ranking. They are not that good. The best teams are clearly Ohio State, Auburn, USC and I like West Virginia.

LSU and Louisville ?
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Old 09-17-2006, 09:25 AM
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ND played like crap and shot themselves in the foot with turnovers time after time. Notre Dame didn't show up to play, and it isn't an excuse because Championship teams need to show up to play for big games. They will run the table and have a showdown with USC the final game.

GO IRISH!!!
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Old 09-17-2006, 10:28 AM
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ND played like crap and shot themselves in the foot with turnovers time after time. Notre Dame didn't show up to play, and it isn't an excuse because Championship teams need to show up to play for big games. They will run the table and have a showdown with USC the final game.

GO IRISH!!!
I think people are in denial if they think this team lost because of turnovers,or being a little flat.That secondary was badly burned by those receivers.The offensive line was no match for the Michigan defense either.This is not one bad game here.This is an overrated team.
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Old 09-17-2006, 11:04 AM
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ND played like crap and shot themselves in the foot with turnovers time after time. Notre Dame didn't show up to play, and it isn't an excuse because Championship teams need to show up to play for big games. They will run the table and have a showdown with USC the final game.

GO IRISH!!!
Notre Dame took a butt whipping. Weiss even stated they got pushed around the whole 1st half and really the whole game. ND is NOT a bad team. They just play a bunch of teams that have talent and are gunning for them every week. If ND took an easier path to bowl games, they could find a way to the National Championship. But with their schedule... its to hard to get kids to play well EVERY week. And with the schedule they have, you have to play well, the teams they face are too good.
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Old 09-17-2006, 11:32 AM
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Notre Dame took a butt whipping. Weiss even stated they got pushed around the whole 1st half and really the whole game. ND is NOT a bad team. They just play a bunch of teams that have talent and are gunning for them every week. If ND took an easier path to bowl games, they could find a way to the National Championship. But with their schedule... its to hard to get kids to play well EVERY week. And with the schedule they have, you have to play well, the teams they face are too good.
Have you looked at their schedule Pgardn? Outside of going to USC at the end of the year, whats so tough about it?
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Old 09-17-2006, 03:23 PM
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Have you looked at their schedule Pgardn? Outside of going to USC at the end of the year, whats so tough about it?
First 3 games:
Georgia Tech (I dont care what they are ranked they are good)
Penn ST. (just cause ND blew them out does not mean they are bad)
Michigan

That is as tough 3 game schedule as you are going to find.

Purdue (this team can put up points)
UCLA (better than people think)
USC

North Carolina was scheduled ahead of time. This looks easy NOW.

Navy, Air Force and Army are always supposed to be push overs. But I think Air Force can give any team some trouble because they can score. Stanford is weak imo.
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Old 09-18-2006, 01:00 AM
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First 3 games:
Georgia Tech (I dont care what they are ranked they are good)
Penn ST. (just cause ND blew them out does not mean they are bad)
Michigan

That is as tough 3 game schedule as you are going to find.

Purdue (this team can put up points)
UCLA (better than people think)
USC

North Carolina was scheduled ahead of time. This looks easy NOW.

Navy, Air Force and Army are always supposed to be push overs. But I think Air Force can give any team some trouble because they can score. Stanford is weak imo.
Okay, so basically, you agree that the schedule isnt so tough. Granted, its not cupcake city but that is far from the toughest schedule in the country.

I bolded the one part because i found one 4 game schedule that dwarfs what Notre Dame has to face in Michigan, MSU and GT in successive weeks. Look at what florida has to do coming up:

Alabama
LSU
At Auburn
Georgia

Notre Dame's deal isnt even close.
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