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Woo hoo! No more Big 11 officials screwing us in our own stadium. |
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thanks Pat...great watching the announcement. |
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Love the officiating crew change. Hate to hear about Gray. Wishing him a speedy recovery (not for his own sake, but for the team's, because I'm a selfish jerk like that). |
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All this talk about 2 and he announces 3? Color me disappointed. |
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Let the ND Renaissance continue! |
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it's a good sign when ND fans can be disappointed with having three viable options for QB during a rebuilding year. then again, i'll probably never get over the pain of the QB carousel that plagued the last years of the davie era, so i might be biased. |
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Replacing Big 10 refs with Big East, thank you lord. |
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i feel pretty bad for Zach. I'm actually really excited about no more Big 10 refs. I hate them so much. DD wasn't at fault in that incident, i don't think that is the reason. |
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Tim Tebow & Chris Leak, anyone? |
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Much like everyone else sans Kevin White, I've always thought playing Michigan or PSU with their own conf officials at home was nothing short of completely unthinkable. Thank God someone made this change. Hopefully it was handled well so we're not getting even MORE screwed on the road in the Big 11. If White had a hand in it he should get some credit where credit is due. |
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Crappy day for Frazer, huh? I feel kind of bad for the guy. But hey, if he didn't perform, he didn't perform. |
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Umm, does anyone else notice the part about Gary Gray possibly missing the entire season? That is a shame to me because I could see him fighting for some play time, much like Walls did last year. Hopefully he's at least able to get some reps in this year with the practice squad so he's at least learning the system. We'll need him after this season for sure. |
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Whoever's gonna play on Sept.1 is gonna need a lot of reps......There's no experience here. |
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maybe it's just me, but it makes sense to at least say there are 3 guys in the hunt for QB. that way you don't have the possibility that 2 guys will jump ship, leaving you thin all the sudden. |
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Hopefully Frazier sticks around to continue to push Clausen, Sharpley, DD, and Crist next year. If he doesn't it gives us another scholarship to offer to Brendan Beal, Michael Floyd, Will Hill, etc. |
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Here's one for the other side of the referee's argument: I think this is actually going to hurt us more, at least at the beginning, and especially at Big 10 stadiums. |
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PM, doesn't this mean that big 10 offeasles will continue to screw us in our stadium, but not on the road since we will take 'our' crews from big east? Do I have this korrect? |
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Three QBs, huh? An interesting play by Weis. I agree, feel kinda bad about Frazer. But that's competition my friend...someone always loses. I still think Clausen will start Sept.1st and I do believe Charlie sees great things in DD. Sharpley's decision making frightens me. |
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Hmmm. Of course the QB situation is most interesting, especially after Frazer announced in the Spring that he was sure he was the leading contender for the job. |
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Does anyone think that maybe 3 Qb's will get equal reps now, and once he sees more from them Coach Weis will eliminate another Qb? I have a feeling that might happen. |
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Depth at corner? Is somebody smoking weed? |
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I would say that Notre Dame has potential at several positions, but depth won't be a luxury this season or next. |
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Scott, we'll have the Big East officials on the road, and the opponents' officials at home. Perhaps we'll be at more of an officiating disadvantage when we play teams from the Integer at home, perhaps not. |
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Walton and Duff got smoked by any decent receivers that played against ND. |
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Jason, |
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Charlie may have a definite two QB's and probably a good idea who starts in September. I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps up a three QB charade late into fall camp just to keep Ga Tech. guessing. Try game planning for ND when you don't know which of three very different players is going to see the field. I error on the side of cynicism but it makes sense to me. |
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That's my feeling too Don. He is a chess player that way while Corwin really plays chess. |
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If I had to take my best guess at what's going on with three vs. two, it's that Weis likes the talent level of JC and DD better, but feels that Sharpley is the only one who is ready right now to step in and run the offense. |
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Yes, I agree with Mr. Wed. I think Claussen and Jones provide more exciting potential, but don't underestimate the advantage of playing in a system for two years. The question for me is how long Sharpley plays before being replaced with an eye on the future. I expect a similar situation as GA had last year with a fifth year senior, a Soph., and a Frosh all getting early playing time. While Tereshinski started early, he was ultimately replaced by Stafford when JT III (a great name by the way) went down with a bogus injury. |
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If he was leaning towards Claussen and Jones, then leaving Sharpley in makes sense at a few levels. He already knows the system, he's the fall back guy if things go bad, he's going to stay for the other sport anyways, there isn't a huge investment on either side, Weis could tell him all of that too. |
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On a positive note, here is an example that should give us hope - the 1998 Tennessee team. I have no idea what they brought back (and I'm sure it was better than what ND is bringing back) but their offense actually improved in the year-following the loss of an impressive four-year starter. Indeed, Tennessee averaged 32.9 ppg in Manning's senior year. With Tee Martin leading the way in 1998 (I believe he was a fifth-year senior), Tennessee averaged 33.2 ppg. More importantly, Tennessee went undefeated. In Manning's freshman year, Tennessee averaged 30.3 ppg (I believe he took over in late September/early October). |
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PJC, I think your optimism is impressive, but there is a big difference between turning over the reins to Tee Martin, DJ Shockley, Matt Leinart, etc. (New starters but 3-4 years in the system) and a true freshman or sophomore. And to answer your question, Tennessee was loaded. Some of the more notable names include Jamal Lewis and Peerless Price. |
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You are certainly correct about Price but Lewis was a sophomore (granted, he was a sophomore who had just won freshman of the year in 1997) in 1998 and missed the season due to a torn something. |
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pretty sure leinart was a true soph, but red-shirt soph at best. and i still think he should've won the heisman over white that year. |
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Perhaps I should have said more depth at corner than we have had the past few years. Sorry, sounds like I caused some people to do a double-take. |
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I think Jamal went down about halfway through the season and I forgot about Leinart's first season. He started as a red-shirt Sophomore. I imagine we can expect similar results from Sharpley. |
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If we can run it and stop the run - we can win some post-BQ ball games. |
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I am luke warm on the Big East ref change.... |
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In 1998 TN also had a very very good defense returning led by an outstanding linebacker, Al Wilson. |
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3.04 GPA? Pretty impressive indeed. Except I think that is higher than our yards per carry last year. |
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I may be wrong, but I think the Big East refs tend to be very good. I think their commissioner or director of ref ops reviews every single play to see if the refs made the right call and has a very hands-on approach to teaching the refs. It may be a different conference, but I thought Big East spent a lot of time making sure their refs do a good job. |
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