Andy

Gerut and Hairston have not been 'prospects' of any kind in quite some time. Both are full-time MLB players and have been for a few years. Comparing them to the Cubs names being floated - besides probably Cedeno, who has been around a couple years now - is not really an accurate comparison.

Well, I will be watching more BTN than I originally planned. We'll have to assign somebody to make sure we know which games Gus will be doing.

That's a good point, ISU...I've been rooting pointlessly for some catastrophic circumstance of upsets to hit TCU, Utah and Boise, but I'm probably best off just rooting for continued chaos. There is no way the ACC or Pac-10 will get an eligible at-large team into the mix, and if Ohio State loses again they might not get in there either. Whoever is best of the Big 12 and SEC group will get a bid, but now that I think about it Ball State probably has a decent shot to get a BCS bid after all. If they can run the table.

yes you morons, he was pulled because he was ineffective. the offensive lineman was holding up two fingers in front of his face to see if he could count that high. i guess that's a fair assessment, though he's had zero opportunities to do so, and he certainly hasn't shown that he CAN'T come through late with everything on the line. Clearly Penn State needs to stop beating the crap out of these inferior teams to give Clark a chance to prove himself.

Ball State 16th in the BCS. :D Unbelievable to see.

Sole possession! Big win for Carolina.

One more 1st down and Carolina will be 6-2.

BEASON INTERCEPTION! Panthers can really put the heat on with a score here

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.