In 2008 notre dame was an underachieving team by anyones calculations-- lots of good players from good recruiting -- and lots of mixed results on the field.

 

In 2008 Nevada was an overachieving team--- very few good players from very poor recruiting and yet a bowl bid( albeit a loss) and what for them was a highly successful season.

 

For ND lots of blame to go around-- charlie first- other coaches-- clausens picks-- oline muffs-- idnetity crises--etc etc etc-- all shopworn but accurate reasons.

 

For nevada most of the credit goes to the excellent year by collin kaepernick

the coach that had his outmanned team ready to play even a close one at boise-- and one good running back-- that added 1000y

 

BUT THAT WAS LAST YEAR!

 

For those of you that want a wait and see approach to the nevada game to see how we play-- i recommend you make that a wait and see till michigan-- because nevada wont keep up--- just NOT ENOUGH TALENT

 

SCOUT RECRUITING THE LAST 4 YEARS

 

2006--82nd

2007--105th

2008--109th

2009--108th

 

i mean come on fellas-- this is a recruting site and if you think that kind of recruting will threaten our team we should stop focusing on recruits at all!!

 

For the remember SYRACUSE crowd -- they recruited in the 40's and 50's those years--- twice as good as nevada--

 

A scrappy running QB one good runner and a 35 year old 6th year back coming back from knee surgery-- is not enough to offset FAR BETTER TALENT ALL OVER THE FIELD__

 

EXPECT A BLOWOUT WIN__LETS POINT TO AWAY AT MICHIGAN TO SEE HOW GOOD WE ARE---THE WOLFPACK CAN'T KEEP UP

EXPECT A BLOWOUT WIN__LETS POINT TO AWAY AT MICHIGAN TO SEE HOW GOOD WE ARE---THE WOLFPACK CAN'T KEEP UP

 

I definitely agree that Michigan will be a better measuring stick than Nevada, but I really hope we don't just brush them off. Don't get me wrong, I'm not worried in the least about Nevada and I think it'll give us a chance to flex our muscles for that first week. But better teams than us have been caught snoozing (USC last year against Oregon State and their running game, for example.)

 

I expect a blowout win, but I think we should take it one opponent at a time.

 

For the remember SYRACUSE crowd -- they recruited in the 40's and 50's those years--- twice as good as nevada--

 

 

 

As Charlie has proven, recruiting numbers don't guarantee victories. What were Navy's and BC's rankings?

As Charlie has proven, recruiting numbers don't guarantee victories. What were Navy's and BC's rankings?

 

Or SDSU, and MSU.

This thread ignores all logic...

 

Logic is using real-life examples to come to a conclusion. Not hypotheticals, but real-time, past events which would possibly shed light to a similar series of events or event.

 

Recruiting tells us that there aren't anymore excuses--not guaranteeing anything, but rather taking away the excuse of lack of talent. Any talk of skipping focus onto Michigan is wishful, non-factual based optimism. Sorry, but this skipping focus is unfound and needs to be called out...

LOGIC EH___We had one common opponent last year with nevada-- hawaii-- they played hawaii at nevada-- we played them in hawaii right after they gave cinci all they could handle-- nevada lost at home-- we blew the hapless rainbows out of the stadium--- logic-- the wolfpack doeant have a single player that would start on our offense or defense--- logic the wolfpack has recruited very little speed and not much athletic talent for years now-- we have the fastest most athletic squad in 15 years at least---

 

IT IS A SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN I GET "CALLED OUT"_LOL_ to defend the notre dame fighting irish's chances against a hapless WAC team on opening day of the most important season in 20 years!!

 

SPARE ME___ ND 45 Nevada 17--- and when the game whistle blows the game over -- I WILL BE THE ONE CALLING OUT THE " SCARED OF NEVADA CROWD"

 

GOD HELP US IF THE TEAM HAS THE SAME LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE AS SOME OF OUR POSTERS_LOL

 

that said -- i know they dont--

 

Our team will not overlook nevada of that im sure-- I however as a 20 year follower of WAC football-- having seen the wolfpack at aloha stadium on more then one occasion-- I have the luxury to do just that-- to look to michigan as the first test-- nevada is as it should be - A WARMUP GAME

As Charlie has proven, recruiting numbers don't guarantee victories. What were Navy's and BC's rankings?

 

Well i will tell you... in 2008 Nevada had 3, ***'s... in 09 they had 3, *** too, and both years the rest were a bunch of ** That is amazing compared to Navy

 

Navy NO ***'s ever!!! And just a couple **'s EVER

 

Syracuse had a few ****

 

 

I will be happy with a 17-14 win vs Nevada..

If we don't beat nevada by 35 I will not go to the Michigan game! Hell yeah! Irish!!

If we don't crush these guys there is no way we see 10 wins. Now enough about Nevada...how about someone starting a thread on beating ANYBODY else please. And I live in Reno for goodness sakes.

If we don't crush these guys there is no way we see 10 wins. Now enough about Nevada...how about someone starting a thread on beating ANYBODY else please. And I live in Reno for goodness sakes.

 

You mean there are Irish fans in the "Biggest Little City in the World?"

A bunch... a few will be at the first game...

If we don't crush these guys there is no way we see 10 wins. Now enough about Nevada...how about someone starting a thread on beating ANYBODY else please. And I live in Reno for goodness sakes.

 

Couldn't agree more. I feel as if I could write my own scouting report on Nevada already and I'm not even in the country (No ESPN to keep me company - just a bunch of rugby).

 

We need some recruits to start committing so we can talk about something other than the opener!

 

It's a long off-season when we're hoping for so much next year and we can't honestly know what to expect...

This game can't get here too soon. The offense that had 49 points against Hawaii

with 4 minutes to go in the THIRD QUARTER will not be near as good as the offense

that takes the feild against Nevada. We can Name The Score....

IT IS A SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN I GET "CALLED OUT"_LOL_ to defend the notre dame fighting irish's chances against a hapless WAC team on opening day of the most important season in 20 years!!

 

This very team dictated this after they came out and looked confused, outplayed, and out of place against a pathetic San Diego St team. Let's hope that an ass whoopin' against Nevada reverses that sentiment....But I think it's premature to consider this a given as a blowout.

ND should beat Nevada. But using the "UH beat Nevada and we beat UH, therefore we should beat Nevada" argument isn't solid. The transitive property of football does not apply here. If that were the case, we should have beaten USC in 2007. After all, Stanford beat USC and we beat Stanford. But, we lost by 6 touchdowns to USC. Not to mention, this is a completely new season, last year does not matter. It's presumptive and arrogant to overlook any opponent, that's why Holtz used to talk up everybody as if they were National Champ contenders. Every Saturday is an individual event that should be given equal due. Nevada does a lot with a little and most definitely deserves our full attention and respect.

This very team dictated this after they came out and looked confused, outplayed, and out of place against a pathetic San Diego St team. Let's hope that an ass whoopin' against Nevada reverses that sentiment....But I think it's premature to consider this a given as a blowout.

 

let me ask you this: do you think the ND team that played SDSU was the same team that played hawaii?