A FILM FOR NOTRE DAME: MAKE PLAYS!

How am I supposed to get to sleep tonight?

Great News, Bad News Dept:

The Brainiacs at Notre Dame signed Charlie for 10 years! Great news for USC, Boston College, Michigan, Purdue, Burger King, McDonalds, Michigan State, blah, blah, blah. Bad news for Notre Dame and NBC and college football in general.

I wonder if Charlie can be sued by theUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac for “coaching mal-practice” and get his contract cancelled.

$30,000,000 buys a lot of McGriddles.

So does that mean he has $3M per win this year?

that’s roughly $1 for every inch of waistline

who cares about Notre Dame, Bama’s # 1 again bitches

Catlab rules, and is by far the best thing about the Kansas State Agricultural College.

Weird. The visual was all wrong, but the audible is the same song I’ve had stuck in my head for a few years now. Finally defeated it with a round of the Chicken Dance this morning. Thanks a lot.

C’mon now. If you were a Domer, wouldn’t you rather watch that than the awful video of the MBA students dancing on that parquet floor tailgate…?

Interestingly, the “MAKE PLAYS!” bit is from Detroit-area analyst Mike Valenti’s on-air meltdown following Notre Dame’s 2006 come-from-behind win over Michigan State.

ironically…. this is true…although, even poodle pete has said that he knew long ago we would be awful this year specifically….

but no one could have guessed THIS bad.

oh well…we go the talent starting to load up…and depth again. something we havent had in years.

i give charlie to year five cuz he’s white…er…wait…no…cuz hes about to pull in a 3rd consecutive top 10 recruit haul. Ty never sniffed the likes of a top 30 ranking. if theres not marked improvement next year, i will personally invoke the name of [insert ANY other coaches name here] to come be the next saviour at ND.

lol

I love how ND fans call Pete Carroll “poodle.” Between USC and Notre Dame, which one has the coach that actually played college football?

Keep making fun, we’ll be okay:

1) Notre Dame picked up its 21st oral commitment for the Class of 2008 on Tuesday when running back Jonas Gray from Detroit Country Day selected the Irish, according to IrishIllustrated.com. Gray initially committed to Nebraska, but reopened his recruiting process after the Cornhuskers fired their athletic director and head coach Bill Callahan’s status is tenuous, at best. Gray visited Notre Dame this weekend for the USC-Notre Dame game.

2) Notre Dame picked up another wide receiver oral commitment over the weekend as wide receiver Michael Floyd chose the Irish, according to Scout.com. Floyd, a 6-foot-3, 210-pound five-star recruit from Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul, Minn., is Notre Dame’s 20th commitment for the Class of 2008. Floyd chose the Irish over Florida, Ohio State and Minnesota, among others.

Hey Domer Guy
All the running backs and wide receivers in the world won’t help you if you don’t have an offensive line, or a coach who has even the slightest clue how to teach kids.

only problem is, you can’t sign fast enough to replace the ones that are bailing…..

The only people who have left who are of any concern are Jones because of the style in which he did it and Carufel because he’s an O-lineman who could have made an impact in his later years (he left after being demoted to second string before BC).

All others made sense or were because we’re loaded at TE.

Speaking of, you should probably be calling it verbal committment instead of oral, 13. Don’t want to bait any catholic jokes. annnnnnddddddd i just did.

That was lame.

The domers need more oral commitments because they do blow.

I can’t help but think the guys at CatLab are just a bunch of stoned semioticians trying desperately to achieve tenure … somewhere. Anywhere.

They keep that stuff up, and they’ll get it, and probably a board membership with International ANSWER thrown in as a bonus.

ND is playing well below their level of talent now. What makes domers think they won’t play well below their level of talent in the future?

MAKE PLAYS! MAKE PLAYS!

Fuck recruiting, how about getting a defensive coordinator? Or an offensive line coach?

Our translation computer has discoved that if you play the last portion of this video backward you can distinctly hear someone saying " … and they thought I was a thuper geniuthhhh…"

It seemed like I was watching the culmination of twelve years of decay this past saturday. It wasn’t even close to being a fair fight. Even if all the Ty comments are correct, and even if Notre Dame had gone off the deep end and not recruited at all these past three years, I can’t understand how you could be that deficient in talent. I saw a couple of three star players who couldn’t do anything because they were surrounded by uninspired one and two star players. Maybe it wasn’t the case that Urban Meyer didn’t take the job because he thought it would take longer to win a MNC at ND than at Florida. Maybe he didn’t take the job because he thought he’d never win an MNC at ND. Whatever you think of Meyer, he has shown himself to be a very shrewd man. Any thoughts from the Domers?

I like how ND uses the youth as an excuse for being soooooooo bad. Meyer has something like 14-15 upperclassmen (juniors AND seniors) and is still ranked in the top 15. We have only about 6 experienced guys contributing (Caldwell, Ingram, Joiner, Harvey, Moore, couple o-linemen) and you don’t see us getting manhandled like Notre Dame. Develop the talent Jabba, thats on you.

Click on this link and laugh you asses off on the best impression of Lou Holtz I have ever heard:
Fake Lou Holtz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPImwEHZqc

Case in point….when a supposedly All-American Senior Domer Corner back has to wave for help in covering a True Freshman ,Mcknight, that speaks volumes….do ya think any corner from USC would ask for help for covering a freshman rb for the Domers or anybody? C’mon, thats pathetic

The vid is worth it just to see Charlie go from Large Marge to Rodney Dangerfield in a matter of seconds.

#21, I suppose you haven’t noticed ND’s defense is much improved this year. Or perhaps you are discounting them for some other reason…? (implied accusation of racism)

They just need an OC. Hey, I bet Bill Callahan will be available after this year. Then they would have TWO certified pro football super-geniuses on staff.

As a Notre Dame fan, I accept that this is the year of humility. Hopefully Charlie Weis takes it as such. But, this too shall pass.

While I’m not hoping that this happens, this would be a good year for Navy to beat the losing streak.

The defense, compared to the previous two years is noticeably better. The problem is that the offense (especially the OL) leaves them out to dry when they can’t control the ball. Case in point last week’s ND/USC game. USC had the ball for more than twice as long as ND did in the 1st half mostly because ND’s offense made only 2 first downs in the first half.

I think that if you had last year’s O with this year’s D, it would be a different story. That being said, the D still has depth problems on the DL and LB. That’s where the majority of the 2008 recruiting class is currently focused.

That video was as boring and pointless as watching N0-38tre Dame football.

If you’ll excuse me, I have a parquet floor to dance on now.

Hey Domer Guy:

It’s really fun when your team hires an NFL offense sooper-genius who thinks recruiting defensive players is, well, someone else’s problem.

Let me know how that’s worked out for you. I can tell you how it’s worked out for Nebraska.

I get a kick out of Domer fans who think this is just their one year of mediocrity. When’s the last bowl win, again?

Yes domers, this year shall soon pass…like a kidney stone while recovering from gastric bypass surgery.

Why are the colors of the “Play Like Champions” sign at the end of the video, maize and blue?

#26: If you’re referring to Zbikowski, he’s a strong safety, not a corner, and a strong safety who is pretty bad against the pass, at that. So it’s not too hard to imagine a strong safety needing help against a guy lined out wide.

And I should also mention that Zibby ran right with McKnight the entire way and that the pass was incomplete. So exactly what point you were trying to make with that statement, I don’t know.

#26," Case in point….when a supposedly All-American Senior Domer Corner back has to wave for help in covering a True Freshman ,Mcknight, that speaks volumes….do ya think any corner from USC would ask for help for covering a freshman rb for the Domers or anybody? C’mon, thats pathetic"
That was actually the safety waving.
While its not uncommon for the safety to cover a RB, he was probably informing his team they no longer had safety help.
If you are going to comment get your facts right because it makes you look foolish.

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damn im a slow typer

#32, Tornado:

I’m not sure what you mean when you say Weis thinks recruiting D is someone else’s problem, because there is no evidence supporting your assertion. I think may be referring to Weis bringing in Corwin Brown, the new DC. I don’t think that anyone will disagree that he was brought in to help recruiting, being a former NFL-er (and Wolverine to boot). It’s worked so far:

—12 of 21 listed recruits on the defensive side of the ball (all but two 4 or 5-star)
—11 of those 21 recruits listed as being recruited by C. Brown
—And the defense has clearly improved this year, as noted by the posters above.

#33, Jayhawk: I certainly HOPE that this is our only year of mediocrity. I never said this year would be it, but the future is bright at ND. If you consider the experience being gained by the young guys each week, the promising recruits continuing to commit (despite a tough year), and the considerably easier schedule next year, I think we’ll be fine.

#40

I think he was referring to the fact that you’ve been pretty mediocre for a while now. It’s been how many years since you’ve won a bowl game, 13, 14? How many wins over the past 5 years have been against teams ranked in the final polls? How many ranked teams has Wiess beat?

1. Pete “The Poodle” was a name not invented by ND fans but was earned by Carroll while coaching in the NFL. It was earned based on his tendency to caper about on the sideline in an excited manner much like a poofer who detects widespread glandular excretions of the opposite sex. That and the fact that he was totally out of his league when competing against teams stocked with equivalent talent. Now that he doesn’t often have THAT problem and his sideline manner is actually considered a POSITIVE, (it’s LA, after all), ‘His Poodleness’ (not to mention “His Humanitarianess”) has ascended to Star status (at least in his own mind). His coaching has definitely improved, however. But as they say, great players make great coaches (except for Name Redacted). Woof Woof, Pete, Bite On.