Fair enough, but you have to agree that this is the best D ND has seen in a long long time, and will keep ND in pretty much every game. The offense has tremendous weapons. A first team All-American TE, a very strong offensive line, three fantastic RBs and at least 5 great WRs. I sincerely believe this is ND’s best chance to go undefeated since 1988, but Kelly’s offense isn’t keeping pace. Criticizing a coach who’s 6-0 and ranked 5th in the country is harsh in some circles, but when your school and team haven’t been National Champions since 1988 and you have a golden opportunity to get there, I see nothing wrong with calling it like you see it.

You’re absolutely right about the Golson strike to Eifert. I was thinking Rees made that throw. Sorry about that.

Good thing you and the other posters pointed those things out to him.

And if he hadn’t corrected some of the things he was doing wrong, he’d still be on that path. Fortunately for him, he had the self-awareness to realize things had to be done differently.

Also, totally agree that Taylor was down with his elbow before he fumbled across the goal line. And his forward progress was clearly stopped just as it was on 3rd down. On 3rd down, he was stading striaght up when the play was called dead (i.e., no part of his body had hit the ground). As one person said, you don’t get all day to wiggle yourself into extra yards once you’re forward momentum has stopped.

Joe-

The make-up call comment was not a serious comment. It was, instead, meant to say, God owed us one for the refs jobbing us on Leinart’s non-TD, which was not a TD.

Irrespective of what fans and videophiles may say, Stefan got in … let’s not kid ourselves. He was on top of a bunch of bodies, made a tremendous second effort … and got in.

The Refs said he didn’t … and the idiots in the booth agreed.

Will I shed a tear? Uh, no.

Look, besides being a huge Irish fan, I’m a huge Packer fan and a huge Reds’ fans … having grown up in Cincinnati and graduated from St. X.

I’m doomed to suffer death by a thousand cuts otherwise known as bad officials’ calls.

Everyone knows the Seattle TD was an interception.

Everyone knows Leinart was stopped … and …

Every self-respecting ND knows … Stefan got in …

But you know what? When the call goes against you, and is upheld on replay … it doesn’t matter whether you agree or disagree with the call … the call is the call …

I don’t like that band any more than you do … but that’s the fact jack.

Net net … what that means in this context is … the Irish are undefeated and headed to a beatdown of the overrated Sooners [rather than Laters].

Write it down.

I don’t see how you can make the claim that “there’s no reason, with a defense this good, that this team shouldn’t be undefeated unless Kelly fails to get the offense out of reverse,” and then pine for objectivity a few posts below.