I know what some of your expecting in this thread but if you've seen my posts, you know I am gracious in victory and humble in defeat and am always cordial in my posts.
Well fellows I warned everyone about Notre Dame being a sham....unfortunately some members on the board didn't heed my valuable advice and played one of the most overrated teams in the past decade thinking somehow they were better than Ohio State who is a top 4 team.
Normally I stick to 1 unit per game sometimes if I believe the game merits more than 1 unit, I go to 2 units...this time though I went ahead and layed 25 units on Ohio State...easy money....probably as easy as it will ever get fellows.
All along, I tried to convince people ND played next to nobody and was not very convincing in really any of their wins....meanwhile, OSU manhandled Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota (all bowl teams), came back and beat, at the time, a good MSU team and then won in Michigan again and played Texas and PSU tough as nails who are probably 2 of the best 3 teams in the country....while ND beat BYU, Navy, and a Michigan team who should have beat them???
Everyone put all this stock b/c ND nearly beat USC and so on and so forth thinking that ND is an elite team b/c of that near upset....
The funniest line by far was this past month leading to the game was....Give Charlie Weiss a month to plan for OSU and he is going to destroy them.
Earth to ND fans....Charlie Weiss can't hold Jim Tressel's clipboard...there isn't a better college coach in America, outside Pete Caroll, then Jim Tressel. Even Musberger commented on the fact that Weiss had no gameplan for OSU.
So the fact remains for the sorry school in South Bend is that they are in the same exact position that they were after Tyrone Willingham's first year....one could make a cogent argument that Willingham's 2002 year was better than this 2005 ND team....but of course everyone is still hung up on the near victory against USC when that year they beat several high quality bowl teams.
Just like every year, there will be high expectations for ND and like every year the Irish will fail to meet those expectations....and with their annual losses to MSU and BCU forthcoming, ND will show they are nothing more than an average football program living off a past glory that doesn't exist. But we'll here the standard line from ND apologists that "we have a great recruiting class" and "Weiss is going to turn things around"....ND fans I don't know if you realize this anymore but you are an average program and you being in the BCS is a product of your ability to attract a large television audience not on the quality of your play. You haven't won a bowl game since 1993...that should tell you all you need to know about the ND program.
Notre Dame
Notre Dame as a BCS team :an_roll_l
Notre Dame as a top tier NCAAF team :an_roll_l
Notre Dame as a 2006 national championship contender
Charlie Weiss will turn things around b/c he has 4 super bowl rings :an_roll_l
Notre Dame's comprhensive and systematic national propaganda campaign to infest college football with reminders of their past glory years so that nobody forgets how great ND use to be
Congrats on a great year ND...you beat BYU, Navy, and Michigan and got embarrassed by Ohio Sate on national television who exposed you for the frauds you are
Well fellows I warned everyone about Notre Dame being a sham....unfortunately some members on the board didn't heed my valuable advice and played one of the most overrated teams in the past decade thinking somehow they were better than Ohio State who is a top 4 team.
Normally I stick to 1 unit per game sometimes if I believe the game merits more than 1 unit, I go to 2 units...this time though I went ahead and layed 25 units on Ohio State...easy money....probably as easy as it will ever get fellows.
All along, I tried to convince people ND played next to nobody and was not very convincing in really any of their wins....meanwhile, OSU manhandled Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota (all bowl teams), came back and beat, at the time, a good MSU team and then won in Michigan again and played Texas and PSU tough as nails who are probably 2 of the best 3 teams in the country....while ND beat BYU, Navy, and a Michigan team who should have beat them???
Everyone put all this stock b/c ND nearly beat USC and so on and so forth thinking that ND is an elite team b/c of that near upset....
The funniest line by far was this past month leading to the game was....Give Charlie Weiss a month to plan for OSU and he is going to destroy them.
Earth to ND fans....Charlie Weiss can't hold Jim Tressel's clipboard...there isn't a better college coach in America, outside Pete Caroll, then Jim Tressel. Even Musberger commented on the fact that Weiss had no gameplan for OSU.
So the fact remains for the sorry school in South Bend is that they are in the same exact position that they were after Tyrone Willingham's first year....one could make a cogent argument that Willingham's 2002 year was better than this 2005 ND team....but of course everyone is still hung up on the near victory against USC when that year they beat several high quality bowl teams.
Just like every year, there will be high expectations for ND and like every year the Irish will fail to meet those expectations....and with their annual losses to MSU and BCU forthcoming, ND will show they are nothing more than an average football program living off a past glory that doesn't exist. But we'll here the standard line from ND apologists that "we have a great recruiting class" and "Weiss is going to turn things around"....ND fans I don't know if you realize this anymore but you are an average program and you being in the BCS is a product of your ability to attract a large television audience not on the quality of your play. You haven't won a bowl game since 1993...that should tell you all you need to know about the ND program.
Notre Dame
Notre Dame as a BCS team :an_roll_l
Notre Dame as a top tier NCAAF team :an_roll_l
Notre Dame as a 2006 national championship contender
Charlie Weiss will turn things around b/c he has 4 super bowl rings :an_roll_l
Notre Dame's comprhensive and systematic national propaganda campaign to infest college football with reminders of their past glory years so that nobody forgets how great ND use to be
Congrats on a great year ND...you beat BYU, Navy, and Michigan and got embarrassed by Ohio Sate on national television who exposed you for the frauds you are
