Colonel

Let me sleep and dream your comment is true. Whip Cream..cake..ND bliss – I hope to awake with sweet dreams and cake and a a cherry on top for the NC. I will not go back to anything representing reality at his point… thanks for the true vision of nirvana.

Bob
Got your point about MSU record in relation to Stanford and OK wins. We all want an NC win in Bk’s third year. Your point is well taken in Stanford (I was there) and OK wins. I point to the MSU game because it was a very real signature game with O and D and most importantly special teams dominating MSU at home…a game much lost in the past five years.

I sat through Pitt and BYU and Purdue and was wondering how the hell we can be considered a national contender. Scary thing for me at this point is how specials teams have went to the wayside after the first 5 games.

Stanford W at this point seems to be the #1 signature win …they may be the best team in the country after the win at Oregon..really. K State showed thier weakness and how it could be expoited by Baylor.

If we beat ( and hopefully pound) USC this weekend – I like the chances of a month off to game plan. BK has the weapons to do it. This will be his shining moment in early year 3 at the helm or conversly a not so great bowl game setback. A blow out to the hands of Alabama or Georgia would be the worst thing we need for this program. A close loss in the NC game would be OK in the rebuilding of ND relevance.

I see your point about the MSU game and you’re right based upon when the game was played. And I also agree the execution was there that night. My only point was that, based on Sparty’s record, the win doesn’t seem to rank with the Stanford and Oklahoma W’s.

Bob Howsam Jr…

MSU was not 5-5 back then. A very early season ND team went into the rival Sparty “hornets nest” in a typical night game at MSU with a national audience and dominated them. Look back at the stats and the play of the O and D and special teams.

There were no early mistakes or MSU chances for game turning boffs on O like Miami or OK..remember the dropped balls for likely TD’s vs Hurricanes or bad OK snap over the head of big time QB in Norman? We did not need mistake “game changers” from our opponents on that night. Look at the stats of that game.

20-3 W early on at MSU was in my book and in relation to this season – a pivitol and signature win. My 64 million dollar question…can we repeat such a dominant road win with all three phases of the game O and D and special teams on the road in such a hostile environment as USC and maybe the NC? If we can recapture that pounding to MSU…well it looks good to me.

How do you inconvenience electrons?

Why should Coffey “focus on one thing at a time” here? He’s neither playing nor coaching the team.

His column here is a well-thought out, enjoyable analysis of the colorful possibilities college football offers. Your suggestion that we “Assume that the Irish will continute [sic]” as they have thus far is fairly naive, given what happened to Oregon and KSU less than 48 hours ago.

Your comment is the waste of electrons and time. And may God have mercy on your soul.

1964

Bolb Howsam Jr. – “The Irish should have no difficulty in beating the Trojans.”

May your glivett be separated from your framdoodle and cast into the krilnazipper for seven (terrible) minutes for even THINKING such a thing.

This curse does not take effect until Tuesday, November 27. If necessary I will reappear and revoke it.