I normally do not acquaint myself with Notre Dame
Football. But when they play Navy in
Dublin Ireland I must interject this prediction.
Notre Dame 42 – Navy 12.
Stay thirsty my Irish friends and in this locality, drink
Guinness.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Notre Dame Football Helmets
Third year coach Brian Kelly and Athletic Director Jack
Swarbrick if nothing else have made their mark with the subway alumni. Notre Dame.
Love them or hate them. Shamrock
Series football helmets. Love them or
hate them.
Here are a bunch of pictures as you wait patiently for the Navy
game. I know a lot of you have given up
checking out the latest news on the Irish.
It’s been all bad and depressing.
Here is a 1920-30's helmet when we used to kick butt.
1950's when we weren't so good.
Ara and Lou Era's one that the students painted. No need to tell you if we kicked butt.
Michigan 2011. We lost. First time Jack and Brian started screwing with the headgear.
Maryland 2011. We won. Had to come up with something to counter the crappy Maryland uniform and helmet.
USC 2011. Yeah we lost. The helmet the students are not allowed to paint. Only the designer, manufacturer students. Note a savve Eric Hansen in the blue shirt with the Man.
Here is the old and the new. You decide.
Jack and Brian's effort to come up with the second ugliest helmet in the history of college football. Some say it beats out Maryland for the ugliest. I think it's a toss up.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Notre Dame Beat Reporters And Cierre Wood
The Irish beat reporters for the local rags and even the
better Notre Dame oriented websites all need to put food on the table and add
to college funds. They walk a tight line
in maintaining and gaining access to the players, staff and coaches while
writing articles with substance and news.
They need to stay in the good graces of the coaches and school
media relations department. Unfortunately they have a number of
strikes against them.
* The coaches converse in ‘coach
talk’ and do not want to give out any real information or tidbits of news
that an opposing team could use in developing their game plans. Injuries, suspensions, personal issues with
players, etc.
* The players are prepped by the media staff. They throw out the usual clichés about ‘wanting
to help the team’, ‘just want to have a seat on the bus’ and ‘are working hard
every day and trying to improve’.
* We have probably read or heard 95% of coach Brian Kelly’s
press conferences. He offers little
information and makes the reporters ask the questions. Not a bad approach however it eats into the
time the reporters have with Kelly. Case
in point, last week Kelly walked into the Thursday press conference and could
have announced Everett Golson as his starting quarterback but he didn’t. He made a reporter ask the question. A couple of earlier press conferences he got
a little irritated by the same question and had an offhand remark in response.
* Twittering has become the social norm and more information,
breaking news and events hit the internet that media first.
* Papers are slow and dying.
Although all newspapers have websites and reporters post there
constantly. Most have twitter accounts
as well.
The story of Cierre Wood and his two game suspension is
everywhere. Broke team rules is the
reported reason. Bulletin boards and
minor blogs state the rumor that he failed a drug test for marijuana. THAT IS RUMOR ONLY.
Kelly and his staff have kept the reporters in the dark,
however there were red flags.
Wood was not at fall practice for the first couple of days
because of “paperwork business that needed to be completed”. Come on, this guy is a senior, went to summer
school, participated in the unofficial 7-7 drills, worked out in the weight
room and he didn’t have his papers in order?
Red flag number one.
Wood the projected starting RB, coming off a 1,000+ plus
season was NOT made available to the press all during fall camp and practice.
Red flag number two.
As of today, August 27, six days before Navy, no official
depth chart has been published or posted on the Notre Dame website. No reporters have written articles concerning
the actual offensive and defensive starting lineups. Red flag
number three. Editors Note: As of August 28, UND website has posted a 2-deep depth chart.
Editors are pretty picky when it comes to scoops, breaking
stories or ones that have substances and are news worthy such as the Wood
suspension. You need two sources. We suspect they could smell something.
So how come no one asked Kelly about Cierre Wood?
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Notre Dame 2012 Roster By Name and Jersey Number
Well how clever are you Subway Alumni Station viewers? Want a roster of Irish players by name and jersey number? Well here you are, can you cut and paste to make a program to watch the Irish pound Navy? I hope this works, Google and Blot are fighting me electron and neutron tooth and nail.
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4 | ||
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3 | ||
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40 | ||
52 | ||
28 | ||
30 | ||
60 | ||
61 | ||
10 | ||
91 | ||
80 | ||
41 | ||
15 | ||
17 | ||
38 | ||
48 | ||
73 | ||
88 | ||
57 | ||
5 | ||
81 | ||
59 | ||
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4 | ||
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51 | ||
12 | ||
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2 | ||
94 | ||
7 | ||
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85 | ||
9 | ||
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11 | ||
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