ErickJD08

All your hate for Michigan has clouded your perspective on reality in that leaving out Notre Dame is on purpose for a good reason. He listed schools who struggle to compete because of academics. Notre Dame has won a lot as of late. It would be stupid for him to list ND because it would defeat his argument.

It's pretty simple. I think ND has a better resume than Clemson and that means something because both teams are undefeated. This all comes down to QB play. Both teams have talent in both sides. In the end, I anticipate a good game and either team can win. I'll be there. Go Irish

You guys are all paranoid and crazy. There is NO WAY in the world that ND goes undefeated and is left out. I don't care what Michigan does. Even if ND drops to a 4, there is no way Michigan unseats ND because they won the head to head. The argument that Michigan is playing better (ie. If they played today, Michigan would win) is pure speculation. ND is starting two studs (Book and DW) that didn't play in the Michigan game. Michigan is the one hoping for Bama to win out and ND/Clemson to lose. ND just has the win by any way and they are locks. Same goes for Bama and Clemson. This all said, this season might be the perfect storm to expand the playoff to 6/8 teams.

The fanbase response is interesting. I don't know what games people are watching but BW is really a terrible passer. Makes more bad passes than good. He makes bad decisions. Does any fan here think that the defenses are playing us honest. The game plan is simple, stack the box and keep a spy on BW. The offense struggles with BW. And there are people here saying Book is marginally better... Based on what? The kid has barely thrown and with limited snaps and he still looks marginally better. Let's give him more reps and see how he looks. If he sucks, then let the debate start. Right now, playing Book is a no brainer with the way BW has played. The kid played a bunch. He needed to take a good step forward from the off season and he didn't. So let's give someone else a shot.

The headline poster is just homerism. Vanilla game plan or not, when BW over shoots his WR by 10 yards to get picked, that shows how bad he is. When he skips passes to WRs, that shows how bad he is. When we throws the ball or makes a decision about a half to a full second late, that shows how bad he is. He is not a good QB. I have seen enough. He should be better by now. If BW is regressing under the spot light, let's see what book can do.

I think some of you guys are overreacting. The OL held up really well. The OL last year would not have done much better, if that's the gold standard. For the first game, I was really really pleased with what I saw.

That's not true. BK has beaten many ranked teams.

With all due respect, this is one of the easiest schedules ND has had in years. If Wimbush can learn to throw, we should win out. I would bet that Vegas favors us for every game.

Again, players are to blame here a bit too. And say what you want, the QB position is inherently a leadership role. Kizer has decent stats and plays well for the majority of time. But he needs to be that voice too. He needs to get his team fired up and ready to play. And I think that's what Kelly is talking about in the post game and in the latest presser. I expect to see a more active leader from Kizer to start taking control of the team.

How about the fact that they weren't on best terms? Not like DD's opinion is not biased here.

Spin-zone... he never said he was pleased with the progress on defense. He said everyone's going to be evaluated. And I agree with him. The defensive play calls weren't the reason they lost. Players need to tackle. Coaches have to take the blame but not all of it.

My beefs are as follows on Kelly: 1. Not opening up passing until really late. 2. Not knowing what to do when calling a 3rd and 2 play. You should know what you are going to do so you don't burn a TO. 3. How do you not take the penalty to make it 1st and 15? BVG would be toast in my book.

Dude. This is the same crap you see from a different sport but best analogy I can think of. For college basketball, Dick Vitale thinks that any team that comes close to beating Duke will be their conference champion. Just because we came close to beating Texas doesn't mean we are good. This is the really sad thing about that game... the ball kinda bounces our way. Outside of the no-call on THJ, we got calls and other things (clipping penalty that put them out of a drive, snapping the ball 20 yards about, a tipped interception, Strong took a 10 yard holding call that would have been a 4th down and we converted, etc.) Bottomline is that we lost a game that we should have won easily. Texas is a 7/8 win team. They were not good and will not be that good. ND was just absolutely terrible on defense. No way ND is a 10 win team. That defense has 0 leadership, bad coaching, and no superstars. It showed on Sunday and it will rear its ugly head every second half this season. We are a 8 or 9 win team (at max).

I know no one cares but I think it was mostly injuries that made this game lopsided. We lost our best defensive player, four DBs, and Day (our next best defensive player) had a bad foot. OSUs QB is not good but their RB is one of the best. Their QB was going after our third string DB all game. I get the whole 'next man in' concept but if you are throwing your second or third best options against great talent and a great coach, your probably going to lose... and we did. I think Kelly should get coach of the year.

Maybe it was to get the wind into our backs at the fourth quarter? I thought that was the reason they didn't run a play at the end of the third.