Would have lost by 21 if Patterson had the ability to complete passes. Hence the couldn’t hit his a** with both hands comment.

All this being said, I do long for the days of a Parseghian or a Holtz ‘type’ leading the Irish out of the tunnel.
The hope was that BK could eventually get us there. And after the Davie/Willingham/Weiss experiments,
the frustrations ran deep and the expectations were high. And so was the patience. The Alabama loss was
mind numbing and ‘spiritually’ debilitating. And Michigan? The thought of us propping up Harbaugh,
even for a brief ‘shining’ moment, is also as ugly to contemplate. Will my grandson ever see and experience
the ‘magic and lore’ that so many of us have through the decades? My grandfather, a mailman in NYC,
told me the stories, but I saw this for myself. Has it ended? Some things do end, and forever.

It was ‘the Bear”.
“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson, Joltin’ Joe has died and gone away.”
No, don’t think a national championship is possible with BK, and even if we do get back to the CFP,
we’ll get embarrassed again. Story is, the Florida State alums, et al, put up a ton of dollars to move Willie Taggart along. They took matters into their own hands for what the powers-to-be could not bring themselves to do. Is this the solution for the Irish?

Grown bodied? What kind of English is that?

I agree with chip Long comment as well, my question is this, why are the Irish using Armstrong on a goal line run, especially because he runs upright, when you have a stout quick fireplug in Jamir Smith ! Makes no sense, it’s frustrating watching the over throws and missed wide open receivers. This could be such a good offense without the poor play calling. I respect Book for his toughness and honestly his passion, if he could only be 6ft 5 !!

They should have lost by 21? I drew the exact opposite conclusion. ND likely wins by 3 TD’s if you take away the goal line fumble right before half. Clearly, that changed the entire trajectory of the game. We’re dealing with grown bodied but emotionally fragile kids here. From that moment on, the only possible outcome was a nail bitter. I hated the sloppiness throughout, Book’s continued regression and the inability of this team to overcome adversity but winning on a last second TD is still something to be excited by and hopefully rally around to finish out the season.

Uh, which 2017 were you watching? They lost to UGa the second game of the season, so not sure how they could have possibly been “undefeated to that point”. They ended the season at 9-3 and won the Citrus Bowl to cap off a 10-3 season.

From what I’m reading U$C is all-in on going after Urban. Whoever’s interested better bring the checkbook.