Does Notre Dame Football have championship talent?

Yes

ahhh, Grace Kelly! oh wait we talking about the same Grace? None the less-Well said! I can’t wait for the sunlight to reflect off of touchdown Jesus onto the eyes of the Irish faithful, then with the sudden blinding light comes V-I-C-T-O-R-Y…

Jason

PS-all those number which i do understand in the article—-they mean nothing! Its heart that wins championships. 24′ 29′ 30′ 43′ 46′ 47′ 49′ 66′ 73′ 77′ 88′ and if you add all that up it equals 562 and if you add 5+6=11×2=22 divided by 2 (because we’re out of the 1990’s into the 20″s) = 11…that means they win it all in 2011 or you can add 2+0+1+1=4….22 taken from it total sum of the difference and its squared root of the diameter of earth and add 79% and 21% (the air we breath) and mix it with Kool aid and a splash of sugar…you again have VICTORY…understand…enough said.

I like Kelly’s quote about Filer being concerned about his new skateboard when Kelly first got there, and that “he’s not worrying about his skateboard anymore.” This tells me the team is focused on football, and that’s how I like it.

Great work omahadomer. Can’t wait to see what Coach K can do with the elite talent we got at nd. By the way thought me and the family were the only irish fans in husker country. Glad to see we ain’t alone. Go IRISH!!!

I can’t be more excited about the optimism I have for this season. I’m grateful to Charlie for proving that ND can recruit top talent at the skilled positions without watering down our academic standards. And for his unyielding and high regard for the University and what it stands for.

But I am truely optimistic that Coach Kelly is the right man at the right time for the job of leading us to double digit wins per season, and leading us back to Relevance, while improving on the recuriting successes we saw with Coach Weiss.

I’m looking forward to Noter Dame’s return to Yankee Stadium and New York City the weekend before Thanksgiving for the game against Army, hopefully going into that game with but a single loss, and setting up a grand stage for USC on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. While I sit there, enjoying the steady return of Notre Dame football to prominence, I will surely think of one other game in New York many a decade ago>

Grantland Rice, a sportswriter for the former New York Herald Tribune, helped the early Rockne backfield to achieve football immortality. After Notre Dame’s 13–7 upset victory over a strong Army team, on October 18, 1924, Rice penned a famous passage of sports journalism:

“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.”

ND went on to an undefeated year, 10-0, and National Championship that season, culminated with a Rose Bowl victory over Stanford.

GOOOOOOO IRISHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve made the point on a few occasions that last year Cincy was 12-0 regular season, and others have pointed out – correctly – that that was with players Kelly had been coaching for 3 years. You judge a coach by what he does with the talent he’s got. Kelly coached Cincy to a national #5 ranking last year – imagine what he can do with the talent he has to work with now both THIS season and the seasons after that. When ND hired him he hit the ground running – he’s said all the right things, made all the right moves. And the players have bought into it. And old farts like me have bought into it.

To sum up in as friendly a fashion as I can – It’s MY kool-aid, I paid for it and I’ll drink as much of it as I damn well please.

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I’m not missing the point . Teo is a once in a decade player . Fullback schmullback . How would you like to see Darrius in the middle ? Let’s see a guard chase him around all afternoon .

Charle was a smart man . He recruited good kids . I think they would have won big this year and into the future — but that’s why people gamble — no one knows for sure . I just think hew did it the right way and I’d rather go with Charlie than the two who proceeded him . We’ll see if Kelly gives Charlie his due if he does what I think he will do this year .

Go Irish !