I like number 4. It really changes gears with the Keystones at the end. Brilliant and unexpected. The mixture of comedic and insightful articles on this site is perfect.
Joel | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 12:55 pm | #

"This stuff is weak dribble. What happened to the insightful articles and writing - dump this guy's contributions."
Brian | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:03 pm | #

I'm all for #10, but just in case I already started scuring the necessary ingredients for #4
piyachi | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:04 pm | #

What would we need to sacrifice if we lost to Stanford? Tree sap? An ounce of Essence of Harbaugh? One of their trombone players?
Brian | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:11 pm | #

"Essence of Harbaugh". Spit-take.
Jay | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:13 pm | #

Screw all the ritualistic tribal BS. Charlie just needs to crank this sucker up to 11!
jn | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:16 pm | #

Geez, I would've thought it would take at least 6 losses before we started lapsing into heathenism.
el ranchero | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:17 pm | #

I'm presuming Essence of Harbaugh borrows heavily from Charles Bronson's "Mandom."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C...h? v=CV3gA7hNItY

I also presume that Harbaugh makes his own "pew pew" noises when he unscrews his cologne, just prior to its generous application.
Pete | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:30 pm | #

For Stanford --> Pine Sol
Turf | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 1:40 pm | #

Could we pretend that Jimmy C(lausen) is like Jimmy C(hitwood)? Then we could all try to run Charlie Weis out on a rail with a vote at the next pep rally. Jimmy could come in and give the "He goes, I go -- he stays, I stay" speech.

Seriously, it is starting to feel like one of these games Charlie will point to 9 players on the field for ND and say, "my team is on the field."
Lou not that Lou | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:22 pm | #

Prayer. Repeat.
Act of charity. Repeat.
Prayer. Repeat.

If you are lapsing into superstition, at least go with the one the institution is based upon. It's been working for me!
Sean Fitzgerald | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:24 pm | #

Demetrius Jones then Konrad Rueland and now Chris Stewart? The first two didn't hurt so much because their fate was essentially decided and reinforcements are on the way. Stewart, on the other hand, is difficult to swallow. Even at 340, wasn't he arguably the most athletic lineman? Also, I initially liked the move to DL, and the potential for Stewart to absorb blockers in the 3-4 scheme.

What is going on here...3 players in two weeks?! Someone tell the Tribune report is mistaken.
Houser | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:27 pm | #

Lou not that Lou -

Priceless "Hoosiers" reference. I could be the drunk that staggers out onto the field yelling like a madman and Charlie tells the ref its okay because I am an assistant coach and the ref slaps a huge penalty on us.
Jason D | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:28 pm | #

I would love to see charlie get thrown out of the (UCLA? USC?) game on purpose, just to give Corwin Brown the reins and fire up the team. Though I guess that would mean CB would have to develop an unhealthly alcohol habit, then get over it, before then.
yak | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:46 pm | #

How about we just teach our guys to block and tackle? I know they're smart enough to do it; they don't go to school at Michigan or USC.
Andrew | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 2:52 pm | #

I don't find Chris Stewart tranferring troublesome at all. He hasn't sniffed the field for the worst offense in DIV 1A....what's that say about his skill level? Maybe there's an injury but if so, why wouldn't he stay knowing that when he got healthy he could possibly crack the starting lineup? I'd say he's healthy and just plain old NOTSOGOOD.
tc | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 3:36 pm | #

I'm not superstitious, but I like to think I'm a little stitious.
AS | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 3:37 pm | #

^awesome
DayBreakBoys | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 4:21 pm | #

thats hilarious that you put "Minnie-Bo's" on there.

when I was a kid it was called "Mo-Betta" Ribs, you didn't go there unless you knew somebody.
rustydevil | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 5:27 pm | #

Well done, AS! (TWSS!)
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 5:34 pm | #

How about ten naked Catholic virgins running ahead of the cheer leaders onto the field? That should wake up the echos.
Subway Alumni | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 5:51 pm | #

The only ten Catholic virgins I know are the cheer leaders. . . . Oh, and of course the lady on the dome.
Southside | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 6:12 pm | #

Houser. I don't know where you are getting your information from (maybe from Chris Stewart himself), but, ask any of ND's linemen who have lined up against him. Chris may very well be a good kid but he has not performed up to expectations, neither his or the coaching staff's. Take a listen to Coach Latina's description in his August(?) interview on UND.com placing Chris dead last on the offensive side of the ball after the defense determined that he would be of better use back on offense.

I would not be over-concerned about the defections -- the blow-outs maybe -- but nto the defections. These are guys who have not cracked the depth chart that believe (rightly so) that they can get more playing time at other D1 schools. This is healthy. The losing, not healthy.
Don E. Brook | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 6:20 pm | #

Ahh, don't pick on the Zahmbies, we were gettin' any in Flanner either!
JMinSC | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 6:20 pm | #

Thursday, December 16, 2004
(Timeout now for a message from BGS friend and stat-head Jeff, who sends us this tasty mathematical confection).

Ara Parseghian once said that if he couldn’t win at ND in three years, it wasn’t going to happen at all. Ara was right.

I looked at the ND coaching records going back to Jesse Harper, and I found that after three seasons, about half the coaches improve their record during the next two seasons, and about half slide. However, there is a very high correlation (87%) between their records for the first three years at ND and their next two.
Hilookatthis | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 7:14 pm | #

11. Bench Wooden

12. Bench Lambert
jim / redondo beach | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 8:02 pm | #

No wonder I didn't recognize Minnie Bo's. I am familiar with Mo Betta's.
Michael | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 8:36 pm | #

I don't know if it'll make a difference, but I figured it was time I started playing ball. There's one more thing, coach stays, I stay, he goes, I go.
indy | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 9:14 pm | #

in addition to jim's list:
13. continue to bench travis thomas
Schultz | Email | Homepage | 09.28.07 - 9:49 pm | #

4. It's 12 NattyLights, not Keystone Lights, in honor of our QB's beverage of choice.
Andy | Email | Homepage | 09.29.07 - 2:29 am | #

Our QB's beverage of choice is Natty Ice? No wonder he's been sucking. Can we start a collection to get that swill drinking child some decent beer?

Put me down for a 6 pack of a double bock.
DayBreakBoys | Email | Homepage | 09.29.07 - 6:03 am | #

Maybe we come out reeeeeeeeeal loose .. realize that no one is watching, and believe that we are South Florida.

Go Irish
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 09.29.07 - 11:05 am | #

"6. Zahm Hall shall remain celibate until the first win."

You'd expect someone from Notre Dame to know the difference between celibate and chaste.
Horseshoe Grenadier | Email | Homepage | 09.29.07 - 4:07 pm | #

Geez, I would've thought it would take at least 6 losses before we started lapsing into heathenism.
Sofia | Email | Homepage | 11.11.09 - 4:45 pm | #