SPRING GAME SLAPDOWN: NOTRE DAME ET. AL

I know I’m not the first to say it nor will I be the last but

Jimmy Clausen = Ron Paulus

In a game where no one threw more than 7 passes, we learned zilch about the ND QB situation. Also, Clausen does not equal paulus, but only because paulus wasn’t a 20 year old freshman who transfered before his first season because he didn’t win the starting job.

Guessing Game Dept:

Guess No. 1: Notre Dame inserted some players from a local prep military academy, tough as nails kids – but under-sized and slow, to simulate their regular season schedule.

Guess No. 2: Now that almost all of Ty’s players are gone, the blame game will shift to the ex-defensive coordinator, that __hole!

Guess No. 3: The ND MBA’s are not practicing their line dancing and worm jiving because someone was drunk and forgot where they stored the parquet floor.

Guess No. 4: (I will skip the fat joke on Weis, enough is enough….for now.)

SKLM, does it ever end with you? I swear to God, if you were a street gang, I’d go to war with you with broken bottles and chains!

Rusty: I thought I held back in my previous commentary. If we went to war, you would not win, because I have learned enough wrastlin’ moves to be dangerous.

I swear to God, if you were a street gang, I’d go to war with you with broken bottles and chains!

So you’ve been going to more Millwall games then?

Jimmy Clausen = Ron Paulus

Yeah I’m pretty sure you’re the first. What a stupid dbag.

That and watching Metalocalypse, DC. Pity the season’s just about over.

The local military high schools in Indiana would go 2 and 3 against the bottom of the Pac-10!

The local military high schools in Indiana would go 2 and 3 against the bottom of the Pac-10!

Insert your own “don’t ask, don’t tell” joke here.

Ah, look to the SC grad for finding a homosexual double entendre!

Ah, look to the SC grad for finding a homosexual double entendre!

It wasn’t learned at SC, it’s residual British humor (humour?) – a birthright of sorts, and something of a social handicap when I am among the irony-free (more precisely, at work).

Travel to the ND spring game…

This was a controled game. Not a single pass was thrown over 10 yards. Nothing but running plays the entire scrimmage. Draw your own conclusions from ESPN if you want to. Evan Sharpley will be the starter Clausen will be #2. Others might transfer. Clausen held his own, but Sharpley managed the game much better, seemed to be in control. As for the Irish Offense “going to suck” that is still up in the air. But this will still be a very good team.

Cuss Question:

By “very good” team, what do you mean?

How many wins?

Here is ND’s schedule, with my predictions:

1. Georgia Tech (loss)
2. at Penn State State College, Pa. (loss)
3. at Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. (ND wins)
4. Michigan State (loss)
5. at Purdue West Lafayette, Ind. (ND wins)
6. at UCLA Pasadena, Calif. (loss)
7. Boston College (loss)
8. USC (loss)
9. Navy (ND wins)
10. Air Force (win)
11. Duke (win)
12 at Stanford (win)

ND wins six and looses six, and goes to a non-BCS bowl and continues its bowl losing streak.

looses gooses….my typos are terrible….

…and I got the Michigan teams confused…rats!

ND might beat Sparty but not the Wolverines….

1. The scrimmage rules favored the D.
2. W. is more interested in the line and blocking at this point.
3. Game was called to suck all life out of Tenuta if viewed repeatedly.

The reason you couldn’t beat SKLM in a gang fight is because ‘SC is in the middle of South-Central LA. That’s right, the place that brought you drive-bys, Snoop Dog, ankle-length jorts, the Crips, and the Bloods.

The reason you couldn’t beat SKLM in a gang fight is because ‘SC is in the middle of South-Central LA.

That’s not true at all – it’s on the northern edge of South Central. Huge difference. You had to drive at least 6 or 7 blocks south of campus to get to the closest “no i.d., no problem” liquor store.

George: Get with the 21st Century. USC is in “South” LA, not “South Central” LA. There was a big City Council deal about the name change. Bloods and Crips? South LA is now over half Hispanic, you forgot to mention some of those gangs.

Also, Snoop is from LONG BEACH, idiot! (Ice Cube is from South Central, I mean South LA..)

DC Trojan: That George is such a candyass, I bet even the girls from South Central, I mean South LA would make him pee in his pants with fear.

DC- What about Benji’s? When I was a frosh/soph they used to deliver to the campus apartments. And I was seldom if ever asked for ID when I used to buy over at 32nd street either. I assume that they must have both gotten busted at somepoint.

OC Phil; Years ago I remember that the 32nd street market had average grocery store sales of over $1,000 per square foot, double an average market. I had no idea USC students cooked so much. Now, I guess they must have been cooking with Bud, Sam Adams, JIm Beam, Jameson, and St. Paulie Girl…

Powlus.

And we’re not losing to BC again. Fuck. That. Shit.

SKLM: Well the 32 does have a huge liquor department. But part of the high gross has to be due to how people in the inner city (at least in LA) get screwed by the grocery stores. Fewer choices, low quality, and high prices do not make for happy shoppers.

As far as the Notre Dame projection, I think you are on the pessimistic side (WHAT a surprise). I see 2 games the domers will be big underdogs in (USC and Michigan) but those have a rivalry factor. I see another game where they should be underdogs (UCLA-based on how close the game was last year and the players lost to graduation) and 5 teams that I’d expect them to beat. Then I see a cluster of 4 games that could go either way (GT, PSU, MSU, and BC). So my guess would be that the domers go 7-5, but it is not that much of a stretch to see them finishing 9-3 or even 10-2.

I think they are more likely to slip up against a team they should beat (MSU again?) than for Charlie to finally get the monkey off of his back and beat an elite team. So I think 10-2 is the best realistic/optimistic projection for ND.

OC Phil:

You are right on, I guess, about my slight anti-ND bias and that may account for my 6-6 prediction.

But last year, I was right on. I could not believe how many “experts” had ND at No. 2 or in the top 5 during the preseason polls. I predicted then that they would end up No. 20 instead of No. 2. Ultimately, I was closer to reality than the “experts” and the kelly green clad Kool-Aid drinkers.

Check out this prediction: ND will have a terrible record during the first half of the season, since ND has all of its gimmes lined up after the USC game. There will finally be a good number of Domies who will start to state the obvious: Weis is over-rated and they will begin to make googly eyes at the year’s surprising coach from a mid-tier school. Weis will have a major malfunction of the “f-bomb” kind and will be taken to the woodshed by Father Whatever. (But, his contract will not be terminated after three years like Ty Willingham’s, because he is not Black. (apologies in advance to the thin-skinned Domies for the previous joke about ND having the reputation for mistreating the Black Man.)

OC Phil / SKLM: I seem to remember we ordered from Benji’s before campus security realized why they were showing up all the time to freshman dorms… 32nd St Market always carded by that point, but that was not insurmountable.

Don’t apologize. USC has never terminated any of their black head football coaches early.

What? They’ve never hired one?

Well, Poodle Pete’s doing his part by hiring African American O&D coordinators.

A big no on that one too?

Well, Norm Chow is Asian so that should count for something.

Honestly, DC Trojan/SKLM, why bother correct them about the fact that USC is not actually in South Central. I’d rather that other teams continue to fear our players as tough, agressive survivors of South Central LA.

I mean how else to explain the performance of ND’s cornerbacks and defensive ends against USC’s skill position players. I mean, those cornerbacks were giving Dwayne Jarrett so much room he was practically in his own zip code on some of those plays. The only explanation I can see is ND’s simple primal fear of our playmakers.

This year, we’re going to teach them to fear our defensive ends as well.

Who gives a shit which local market sold drinks to whoever they could. In case you did not notice we were talking football assclowns.
ND will win at least 7 games on CW alone.
But they will still lose a bowl game that didn’t matter in the first place.
The SEC rules the rest are playing for second.

ND will go 9-3 or 10-2. That is my prediction. Ref to CW having a meltdown and overrated, doubt it. Tyrone Willingham was black before he was hired and he was black after he was fired !!!! Sorry but Charlie only has to win about 2 games this year to equal what Chauncey did in his three years. Besides CW gets the benefit of the doubt because he is an Alumni. Tyrone never got it, Davie never got it….
Just like Larry Smith and Paul Hacket never got it for USC…..After John Robinson you had nothing……

In case you did not notice we were talking football assclowns.

Who rattled your cage, Fredo?

1. Trying to give USC crap for not having a black head football coach is stoopid when the AD is black (Mike Garrett).

1. Larry Smith had some good years, including one that featured a #1 vs #2 showdown with ND at the end of the year. USC were down in the 80’s and 90’s compared with the 70’s and the present, but everything wasn’t bad back then.

#26. From what I hear Fat Charlie going off on F-bomb laced meltdowns is a pretty regular happening. I think he has one more year off free-pass, but if he loses 5 or 6 games (including USC and Michigan) I think a few of the domers will start to remember that he wasn’t the first choice for the job and maybe Bill Belichick has had something to do with the NE Patriots doing well. If ND are not a serious national contender by next year the hard-core backlash will get going.

OC Phil

nobody pulls up the race issue with any USC coaches or administration. People only take exception to ND because they fired Ty Willingham. Race will always be an issue with that. If USC hires or fires a minority it’s nobody’s business but USC’s. But because it’s ND firing Chauncy Willingham (who they never should’ve hired) it’s big business. For what it’s worth people to tend to forget that ND has a minority Off & Def coord.

As for Charlie’s foul language it’s really no big deal, everyone excepts it. ND will have a good season regardless of what everyone thinks. Charlie Weis wasn’t the first choice, Urban Myer was, no one is going to forget that….especially everyone on this web. No big deal to me, I think it worked out for the best. Urban Myer’s wife didn’t like South Bend the first time, doubt she wanted to come back, also Urban wanted to have admissions lowered in order to get better recruits. (Lou Holtz fought that fight for 11 years and finally decided to call it quits when Mike Wadsworth and Monk Malloy burned him out.) Nothing wrong with that, no one is going to blame Urban for that. Urban felt he couldn’t change things around without it. So he went for to Florida, and things have worked out great for him and his family. Urban had more to work with as Ron Zook was a very good recuriter, but he just couldn’t coach. Ref ND neither Davie/Willingham could coach or recruit. I was never happy with either of them and wouldn’t defend them either, I felt ND did the best they could with what they had. But regardless of how many times CW goes to the “Golden Corral” buffet, I will stick by him cause, he being a ND Alum gets it. Sure if they have a few bad seasons people will bicker, as all fans are fickle and want a NC, everyone does. But if you look at some of the coaches now a days, Tressel was 6-6. Carrol was 6-6 in the begining. Hell Erickson started out with an NC and look where that got him Idaho ????

Yeah, I is stoopid.

DC TROJAN what is that a political condom?