SPRING PRACTICE CLUSTERBOMB SALAD

But I thought Urban was in The Call?

There’s a brothel on St. Simon’s Island? How did all the Bulldogs and Gators miss that lo these many cocktail parties? Or was I the only one who didn’t know?

“Wake up the Echoes”? What’s dumber, calling it “The Shirt 2008” or having a fucking public unveiling?

We do weird shit at Bama – 92K at a spring game, naming everything in Tuscaloosa County “Bryant-somethingorother”, mis-spelling (in fucking concrete!!!!) the first name of a permanent team captain, not having time this shit, aight, etc. – but ND takes the prize.

Anyone clicking on the Duke link, please notice the pictures. They cared enough about the spring game to put pictures from previous seasons games and pass them as spring game material.

Looks like the truly do care about Duke football…sad

I think I speak for the vast majority of Notre Dame alumni and fans when I say that we, like the rest of the country, are so fucking tired of the Wake Up the Echoes theme every year that we’re ready to take our own lives. Seriously. It’s the college football equivalent of “The South will rise again!”, and just as absurd.

How about a slogan along the lines of, “We will show you steady improvement throughout the season, culminating in a victory over a mid-pack BCS school in a second-tier bowl!” I would be happy with that. We would all be happy with that.

You saw Urban in that picture, but I saw Eddie Munster/Billy Donnovan.

That David Cutcliffe, after seven years at my beloved alma mater, is only NOW truly frustrated by a stockpile of piss-poor “athletes” speaks volumes about either the depths to which Duke has sunk or the outstanding quality of football players at Ole MIss. HINT: Probably not the latter.

I don’t think I’d ever heard so many people laugh at the same time before as I did when Demorrio screwed up that pledge. Seriously, that description in the story doesn’t even do it justice. He said five lines of the pledge right in a row, then paused for about 15 seconds before skipping a line and jumping to the end. The words were going across the screen so you could see what he was supposed to be saying and compare it to what he was actually saying. One of the best moments of my life, and a fairly compelling demonstration of why not to do drugs: you will make yourself look like an illiterate ass in front of 80,000 fans.

Okay, as a ND alum, I have to say that The Shirt generates money for a good cause.

That being said, they consistently create terrible designs for shirts and also find a way to select terrible typefaces. There isn’t enough input from the school’s graphic design department— which might be one reason why the shirt this year looks like a 14 year old girl designed it. Oh and the whole navy blue thing isn’t a very spirit-generating color. Stick to a light green and build around that.

It’s Demorrio Williams. Hey, Madden 08 came in handy for something.

the look & hairstyle of Billy Munster, but the stare is unmistakably Meyer.

I can hear him now – You WILL join the Gator Nation…..top 1% of the top 1%……spread is unstoppable…..I want a piece of the Te-Boner…..

That last one may or may may not be true.

Greek mythology dept.

I wonder if the domers realize that the goddess Echo was eternally doomed to repeat only the words that were spoken to her. Hera sentenced her to become the goddess of distraction, misdirection and INCESSANT JABBERING.

Golic is going to be to Notre Dame football what Jim Belushi has been to the bears. He will never ever go away, and will turn up as your “celebrity” guest on all the telecasts. I guess its an improvement over Kuechenberg. But still get used to seeing this guy all over the place, now that his kid is there, he aint going anywhere.

And saying ND “will rise again” is basically dooming them to 143 more consecutive years of failure, which I guess is fine by me.

Who made Rick Astley clones and sent them through a time machine?

(guy in the middle)

I’m pretty sure that by the year 2050, Mike Leach is going to be smuggling spice. Like, intergalactically.

1. - another example of how much they don’t care, they couldn’t even give the poor kids credit. The caption “white team QB” and “blue team wide out” made me laugh. Don’t these “football players” have names?

1. and #17 yep… I noticed that too.

speaks volumes for the program.

hunglikehussain, I would like to think we ND Folk are more like Cassandra in that we know the future but nobody will believe us. Unfortunately, we haven’t exactly been proven right just yet.

The link to The Echoes was excellent. I was just wondering the other day what David Alan Grier was doing.

What is with the Midwestern hate? Not selling enough drugs to 10 year-olds got you down?

Better to be “Awakened by the echoes”, after all, how has the faithful’s attempt at awakening echos been workin’ for ’em? Just maybe its the domers who are asleep…and I have yet to see heritage and tradition win any football games…although it makes great black and white movies…

Hunglikehussain @ #12, your missive is so on point it brought tears to my eyes…one hundred cocktails of your choice.

Chuck @ #6, that would be Billy Donovan of the Eddie Munster Gel-helmet…(Orson-ism from two years ago)…

Allwhoyonder @ #19, only in an ideal world…kinda’ Panglossian, but painful, nonetheless…