Andy

You start Gus :shock: It's a two-QBs-start league, and I I had Frerotte in because Warner was off last week.

CALL STANDS!!! Steve Smith!!

Smith stepped out. Mark, I woke up too late and didn't put Warner in for a bye-week Frerotte and also traded Boldin for Cotchery and Holt this week. So I'm not enjoying it.

Cardinals are ripping our defense apart.

I love Steve Smith. :-D

I love DeAngelo Williams.

Carolina sucked hard in the first half.

Top 25 games ----------------- (1) Texas at (6) Texas Tech (8 pm, ABC) Arkansas State at (2) Alabama (3 pm) Nebraska at (4) Oklahoma (8 pm, ESPN) (5) Florida at (8) Georgia (3:30 pm, CBS) Washington at (7) USC (6:30 pm, FSN/CSN) Iowa State at (9) Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) (10) Utah at New Mexico (9:30 pm, The Mountain) (11) Boise State at New Mexico State (7 pm) (12) TCU at UNLV (8 pm, CSTV) (14) Missouri at Baylor (3 pm) Tulane at (15) LSU (8 pm) (16) Florida State at Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) (17) BYU at Colorado State (6 pm, The Mountain) (19) Tulsa at Arkansas (2 pm) Northwestern at (20) Minnesota (12 pm, ESPN2) Wisconsin at (22) Michigan State (12 pm, ESPN) (23) Oregon at California (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) (24) South Florida at Cincinnati (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) Other games of interest ------------------------------ West Virginia at Connecticut (12 pm) Central Michigan at Indiana (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Michigan at Purdue (12 pm, Big Ten - Regional) Auburn at Ole Miss (12:30 pm) Kansas State at Kansas (12:30 pm, FSN/CSN) Pittsburgh at Notre Dame (2:30 pm, NBC) Kentucky at Mississippi State (2:30 pm) Duke at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, ESPN360) Iowa at Illinois (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) Tennessee at South Carolina (7 pm, ESPN2) Louisville at Syracuse (7 pm, ESPNU) Arizona State at Oregon State (10:15 pm, FSN/CSN) Bucknell at Holy Cross (12:30 pm) North Dakota at Southern Illinois (3 pm) Northern Iowa at Western Illinois (7 pm) Other nationally televised games ----------------------------------------- Buffalo at Ohio (7 pm Tuesday, ESPNU) Houston at Marshall (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Air Force at Army (12 pm, ESPNU) Temple at Navy (3:30 pm, CSTV) Clemson at Boston College (3:30 pm, ESPNU) East Carolina at Central Florida (8 pm Sunday, ESPN) Wofford at Appalachian State (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Brown at Penn (12 pm, Versus) South Carolina State at Delaware State (1 pm, ESPNU)

Jimmy Clausen made one of the best passes I have ever seen in my life tonight, but it ended up being an interception. ND went for it on a 4th and 19 because it was outside Brandon Walker's range (one of two 4th and 19's we went for it on, which has to be a record) and Clausen zipped one to Kyle Rudolph about 25 yards upfield right in the middle of three Huskies defenders absolutely perfectly into Rudolph's hands - probably the only spot he could've put it. But Rudolph had the ball batted out of his hands and a Husky caught it. Go figure. Still a freaking outstanding throw. Course, Bob Davie tempered my enthusiasm by soon after predicting Jimmy to be right in the mix of the Heisman race the next two years, which I never again want to hear about an ND quarterback until he actually is.

The Cardinals' next three games are a week from Wednesday vs NIU on ESPN2, the following Tuesday at Miami (OH) on ESPN2 and a week later on Wednesday at Dan LeFevour and a Central Michigan team that owns us, on ESPN2. The final regular season game, vs WMU the Tuesday after THAT, may be picked up by ESPN2 if it affects the bowl picture. This is by far the biggest month in the history of this program.

This 33-7 game felt like an exhibition win. Lots of playing time for second-teamers. Two touchdowns by Irish players scored without being touched by a UW defender. Ty getting called for a 12-men penalty on the first play of a drive (the week after being called for delay of game on the first play of the game). Huskies didn't make it past their own 44 until ND yanked the starters after going up 33-0. Davie fellating us the entire game. Very satisfying. Three mediocre teams and a horrible one stand between us and USC.

Skiles on Rose Obligatory "Rose would absolutely never see the floor if Skiles was coaching" comment

Wanny! A ranked Dave Wannstedt team is always due for a loss. I was hoping they'd hold out one more week. Now we're gonna be favored next week, so Pitt's got us right where they want us. What a weird team.

Charlie went 3-9 last year against a schedule with 10 bowl teams on it and with virtually no upperclassmen worth a crap on the roster (thanks to Ty's 'recruiting') and Ty went 4-9 in an absolutely horrible Pac-10. I can play the schedule game too. And ND dominated the game against Stanford and led 28-7 until they took their feet off the gas, and it bugs the hell out of me because Charlie does that all the time. (And I'm not making excuses for the 3-9 season, Charlie did a LOT wrong last year. I'm just saying a lot of circumstances contributed to it, not just him.) Ball State easily disposes of Eastern Michigan 38-16 to go to 8-0. Will probably move up a couple more spots depending on other results today.

i hope they all die in a plane crash. i didn't even think of this angle. beautiful. I hope youre on the plane too. What a horrible post. i used to love those ucla vs. arizona games. so much good guard play Basketball didn't exist outside of the Big Ten to me until about 8 years ago. Didn't? I'm pretty sure it still wouldn't if the conference was worth paying attention to. Lord knows I don't really pay attention to non-Big East games very often, a few regional games like Purdue and IU being exceptions.

I was at a bar tonight and got scared crapless when I saw his injury on the TV. Hopefully he'll be ready for Tuesday.

Agreed. I don't think the Ty hate would be nearly as strong if the national media hadn't spent that entire off-season - and occasional unprovoked potshots since - blasting Notre Dame for being racist and blatantly fabricating facts like 'he's the first coach to be fired before his contract was up'. Not true, since Bob Davie was fired one year into a five-year contract extension. Or 'booted him out with no warning'. Not true, there were buyout terms after 3 years in the contract, and in fact last year ND paid Willingham more not to coach for them than they did Charlie Weis. Or 'he cleaned up a program in scandal'. There was no scandal, unless you count Notre Dame finding a resume falsification that had escaped George O'Leary's previous three employers as 'scandal', and Willingham did absolutely nothing in the academics department since ND has always been a good academic football school - and in fact has posted its best team GPAs ever under Weis. And the whole 'Charlie was winning with Ty's players' ridiculousness, which looks even more hypocritical since Charlie is now winning with his own players while Ty is getting absolutely destroyed with his at UW. There's little doubt that Willingham deserves better than what he's getting from Notre Dame fans, but he probably deserves worse than what he's getting from everybody else, so it all evens out nicely. I'm just happy that after we pound him again tomorrow and he gets the axe after this year (I'm convinced the only reason UW didn't fire him last year was to avoid a possible media onslaught for dumping him after 3 years like we did) that this story might possibly have a chance of dying.

UW doesn't even have to "destroy' ND for it to be a feel good story. I would love nothing else to see Ty stick it to ND. Unfortunately, Ty is coaching the other team, so he can't stick it to ND in any way besides perhaps to float more ridiculous racism accusations. But maybe he can go interview for another job while still employed at UW, like he did when he zipped off during the bye week before his last game as the ND coach and interviewed at UW. You know, instead of recruiting. dude come on, you can dislike willingham for the job he did at notre dame, but how can you rip on him for talking to another school rather than staying in south bend to recruit for a school that everyone knew was going to fire him? Because you don't quit on the team it's your job to coach during the season and go out looking for other work. I'm all for people looking for other work after the season, and especially so if you're a small-time coach looking for a big-time job, i.e. the offers Brady Hoke is probably going to get once Ball State finishes the season. I'm fine with all of that. But during the season is a big breach of ethics to me.

I wish our game were earlier so I could watch - that should be a fun one.

UW doesn't even have to "destroy' ND for it to be a feel good story. I would love nothing else to see Ty stick it to ND. Unfortunately, Ty is coaching the other team, so he can't stick it to ND in any way besides perhaps to float more ridiculous racism accusations. But maybe he can go interview for another job while still employed at UW, like he did when he zipped off during the bye week before his last game as the ND coach and interviewed at UW. You know, instead of recruiting. Yeah well, that's good and all but if Ty knew he was going to get fired from ND why should he help them with recruiting? I mean they fired Ty after three seasons, and according to this logic Weiss should be fired after this yr, or perhaps even last yr. So I don't blame Ty for interviewing for another job instead of recruiting for your now ex-school. ND take the majority blame in the Ty Willingham situation because Ty is a good coach and he would have gotten them to where they want to be, but they refused to be patient. I'm not saying Ty is innocent, but ND was clearly looking for the hot new name of coaches and they dumped Ty at their first sign of adversity. And that ain't right, IMO. Ty is going to end his career as the worst coach percentage-wise in Washington football history. He replaced a guy who got fired after 20 games. But he's not black, so nobody cares. Ty is not a good coach. That's simple fact. He won a few games at Stanford, I'm not sure how. Then he got a smoke-and-mirrors 8-0 start at ND (with Bob Davie's recruits) that was predicated mostly on a bunch of turnovers. But he recruited pathetically at Notre Dame, didn't know how to use the few good guys he did recruit (Samardzija barely used for two years, Darius Walker not even on the plane to the first game of his freshman season), and made some dumbfounding decisions (punting from BC's 30 yard line in one memorable game, then later sending out our kicker for a 57-yard field goal to try to win it - you figure that one out). Then he cut bait and ran for another job as soon as he realized he might actually be held accountable for his poor performance. And before ND clobbered his team in 2005, he reprehensibly allowed John Saunders to float racism accusations in an interview when he knew damn well why he'd been fired. Tyrone Willingham is scum. Recently, Dave Mahler, a Seattle sports radio personality who was an enthusiastic Ty supporter early in his Huskies career, went on a 20+ minute rant about his needing to be fired after learning that Ty did not allow players from the 1978 Washington Rose Bowl team to address the Huskies before a recent game. My favorite quote from it was "Everything Notre Dame [fans] warned us about this guy, everything they said has turned out to be true". The casual observer hasn't seen him destroy a football program to know any better, unfortunately. I apologize for the length of this post and the spate of ND discussion it will no doubt perpetuate, but my ability to take ND jibes in stride does not and will never extend to the Tyrone Willingham era.

UW doesn't even have to "destroy' ND for it to be a feel good story. I would love nothing else to see Ty stick it to ND. Unfortunately, Ty is coaching the other team, so he can't stick it to ND in any way besides perhaps to float more ridiculous racism accusations. But maybe he can go interview for another job while still employed at UW, like he did when he zipped off during the bye week before his last game as the ND coach and interviewed at UW. You know, instead of recruiting.

Was wondering when you would show up and as I told you last year no one who refuses to join a conference fully should be allowed to brag about said conference. If this is how ND fans would be in every sport then I am glad ND stays out of a conference in football. This doesn't make any sense. So because Notre Dame isn't in the Big East in football means a Notre Dame fan can't brag about the Big East in basketball? That's a pretty stupid opinion. I'm bitter because I think its ridiculous for teams to be allowed to join a conference in one sport but not the others (except for the sports that don't have enough teams in the normal conference and have to create a different one). That and I had to hear his crap all last year. Actually, it is the complete opposite - ND is in the Big East in every single other sport besides football (except hockey, in which there is no Big East).

Seattle's been through enough in the last year what with the Sonics being stolen from them. Anything that might lead to another year of crappy recruiting and horrible coaching upon the poor UW fans should be the opposite of what anyone wants.

24 hours, 43 minutes till we bury the Willingham Era. Right now I'm like Raisin if UCLA football and basketball both played against Dorrell and Lavin-coached teams on the same day, multiplied by about 20. I want to drop 60 on that punk.

Maybe, although ND really hasn't been very good the last 20 or so years until recently. Last year's team was probably the best one I've followed, and other than that only the 2003 team (which if you ask me overachieved a bit, as well as caught a ridiculous seeding break to get a 5/4 game in Indy vs your Illini, to reach the Sweet 16) was really eye-catching. This team is coming off a 14-4 Big East season and returns everybody but Rob Kurz. They should be pretty darn good. Nonleague road games at Loyola Marymount and UCLA as well as Maui should help their OOC schedule a little this year too. The last couple of years have been a joke in that regard.