Wow.

That was an awesome column.

I wish I was as good of a writer as you.

Signed,
Woody Paige

Its gotta hurt ND fans when they see how worried thier arch rival is. Will bother ND fans even more by the end of saturday.

Is that you Bill Plaschke?

I’d been expecting a Furman Bisher tribute here in EDSBS, but this column is about a team not in Dixie, so it can’t really be a Furman Bisher salute. Close though.

I think we now know the reason behind their annual one-dropped-game-a-year-“problem”…

My spirit animal is Rick Reilly.

@ Philip #4: As opposed to the teams that consistantly lose LESS than a game a year? If that’s a “problem” what is it when Florida or LSU drop 4 games in a year? How many times has Florida gone undefeated?

No Floyd, but Irish eyes are smiling at the notion of USC sliding on their bellies. Hoping for a little home field advantage snow (no wierd grass cutting this year, just a little cloud seeding boys!)

When USC starts practicing Tate’s extra 5 through 360 flips or Hughes’s extra 5 through bush pushes then I’ll get nervous.

Wow Holly. And I thought I was screwed up for having a half-dragon, half-tiger as a spirit animal.

LA can make you dirty hippy crazy.

Plaschke, is that you? Shouldn’t you be complaining about numbers and talking about “gut” by now?

Washington practiced for the ND soundscape. USC practiced for ND sleet. ND’s used to both.

oc phil, get with the stereotypes. tOSU and Oklahoma lose the big games, USC loses the small games, and Florida loses the SEC West games.

You run…you slide…you hit the bump…and then you die!!!

At least that’s how I heard it.

Monday morning memo from the great humanitarian. 2012: Players not Coaches for sleet practice.

There’s nothing wrong with Georgia Tech’s defense that playing North Carolina every week wouldn’t fix. Maybe they can work out some sort of 10-on-10 deal; you leave a receiver on the sideline, we drop a DB. Metric footbaw!

Dammit, wrong thread. Oh, Furman Bisher sucked, btw.

Thanks Pat Dooley

Could Pete Carroll be any more GAY?

What a tool that guy is.

“USC, the best talent steroids can buy.”

“Come to USC, you’ll get away with murder.”

That was a damn fine Martin Fennelly* impersonation. But you left out the gratuitous cheap shots. Needs to be more of a drive-by shooting to really capture his essence.

• - only a few people (including I think Orson himself) will get this. Don’t Google him and see what I’m talking about. Just don’t do it.

Damn you, JD. You piqued my curiosity to the point that I ignored your warning.

The little, poorly-written fragments were daggers in my eyes. My optic nerves are burning in pain. I will have to re-read old EDSBS posts as a medicine.

one sentence per graf column in newspaper = one. word. sentences. on. web.

i’m taking intro to journalism now, and the book tells us never to have a paragraph more than three sentences long.

which makes.

this “column.”

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@22: further evidence of the decline of Western Civilization.

You could survive in southern Louisiana for three years on $1450.

Tim James has never been to a casino in New Orleans…or Baton Rouge for that matter.

Funny story though….They split Baton Rouge up in a recent story. Half of the city was listed as one of the best places in America to live as far as health care, safety and wealth go, the other half was near the bottom. We got it all folks.

Bill Plaschke is pissed that you bit his style to a T.

#18. A little exercise for you. Breathe in the positive thought breathe out the negative one’s. You need to let that hate of USC out, let it out brah. You will live much better.

@ atesperm, # 18.

I guess gayness is in the eye of the beholder, but PC is throughly hetero. That’s a bitter and sad attempt at trash talking there, you need to work up some new material.

And I suppose you are happy with a coach who is a big blob of fat with no social skills and who can’t win a game against a top 20 team? After 5 years of that he has to be running out of excuses by now.

@25 I’d buy that story.

I attended a wedding in Baton Rouge last summer and I was surprised at the disparity I saw. My buddy took me on a driving tour of one of the non-gated “big spender” neighborhoods, where I spent a half an hour with my face pressed against the window gawking at the mansions.

The journey back took me through an area of town that made me think we’d be chopped up and sold in a bait shop if he slowed down below 40.

Best Scarbinsky column so far this year.

They see me slidin’, they hatin’.

(FYI- it was a coaches-only competition between the O-Line and D-line assistants.)

atepesm @ 18 – And your coach is FAT!

(Just responding in kind. Rubber, glue, etc. )

@Notre Dame

Do the following numbers have any meaning to you?
24-21

24-41
26-31
9-27
28-35
9-41
6-28
21-38
20-34
14-41

49-21

Hint: the first column belongs to you.

@7, did you not see the quotation marks around “problem?” I wish Auburn had that one-loss-a-year-“problem”….

I am a Notre Dame fan.

I’m not going to talk shit. I do’nt give a fuck what you think of our coach.

I just want to win. That is all. I don’t care if it’s a safety to give us a one point win, or if it’s 56-0, or any of that shit.

I just want to win.

(@ 32: I have no clue what your point is. I recognize three of those scores, and you’re reachign back to the davie and willingham, and possibly holtz years for some of those. Feel free to establish a thesis and spend a little mroe time outlining it by detailign which games are in there. I see the 2003 USC, 2001 OSU, and possibly 2006 OSU games in there?)

Wooderson, I hear you. I also know that when you want to bring it, you can do better than the example above.

To be honest, I don’t want your wish to be fulfilled, because I’m selfish like that. But I agree – 1 point or many points, the win’s the thing.

@ Wooderson. Yep.

LMAO. I had to laught at that clip. It’s so incredibly apt. Would we expect any less from Fun-In-The-SoCal-Sun Pete Carroll and his culture of cooly detatched indifference?

So what if USC lost at Washington. So what if the “can’t do no wrong, we’ll give USC the benefit of the doubt” sheen from the 2003-2005 glory years are starting to finally wear off (if only partially). Pete’s gonna slip and slide, and there’s not a goddam thing you or I or Notre Dame can do about it.

@ philip #33

Yeah, I just get sick of the mistaken thesis that USC drops “easy” games because of the “softness” of the program. It is more of a work hard play hard mentality.

And Carroll has least one coach who was good at being an “enforcer” who was physically intimidating enough to take on any player and who seems crazy enough to actually do it. Ed Orgeron being the obvious example. Ken Norton Jr. fills the role nicely now, though his mix is more tough and less crazy than coach O. Pat Ruel is a nice mellow guy most of the time but he can get way scary at times too.

@ D-Nice #37

USC gets the benefit of the doubt? Not when the 1 loss team was left out of the BCS game last year or the 2 loss team was left out the year before. I’m OK with what happened, but I’m calling bullshit on the idea that USC gets some unfair advantage.

That reeked of Plaschke, all right, but it lacked the usual stupidity (“This is a Bruin town”) and ham-handed attempts at pathos (see: anything).

Man this is strange.

A comment thread featuring warring Domers and SC fans.

Where have all the great Bama/Auburn wars gone.

Truly a crazy year in college football.

Truly.

Rivalry Week Dept:

1. 40 Joshua: If you had any brain cells still working after the drunken bender needed when Florida beat down your Tiggers with a 50% Tebow, at L$U, at night, blah, blah, blah….you would understand that this is the week USC and ND go at it…. and a little needling going back and forth is expected.

Clausen > Locker. ND defense > Washington defense.

But no need to worry, USC. When you tire of belly sliding the Great Humanitarian can probably find you a for credit belly dancing course. Anything to get you in form for your belly flop Saturday.

OC Phil # 39

Pat Ruel is usually calm and collected because that is the demeanor of most good O-line coaches. Kind of a speek softly and carry a big stick mentality. Also like other good O-line coaches the trigger to his dark side will uncontrollably be turned to ‘on’ when his 300lb pupils are not perfuming with the proper cerebral capacity.

Greetings South Benders! A happy early/mid fall to you. Get ready to get your ass whipped again. 10/17/09….the clock is ticking…….

FIGHT ON!

Notre Dame’s defense will do fine against the O that only put up 27 against WSU. (Yes I realize that 20 came in the 1st quarter and Barkley threw 2 long TD passes within 9 seconds of each other, but so what). Pete Carroll will get his comeuppance, just desserts and humble pie.

@ tzubear;

You are exactly right. I had the experience of messing up my footwork on a drill for him. He got a couple of inches from my face and yelled "Are you doing this on PURPOSE? You are TRYING to piss me off aren’t you? IS THAT IT? ARE YOU TRYING TO PISS ME OFF? He was cut off by the horn saying it was time to move on to the next drill and he turned down the volume but not the intensity and finished up with “I will take this up with you again tonight after dinner”. At that moment was scared that he actually might.

We’re not giving up the ship but we’re prepared to man the lifeboats.

27-0