Comments on: Payin’ No Rent

By: tjak

tjak — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:55:32 +0000

We. Will. Win.

By: chaz

chaz — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:49:54 +0000

Line up and play the game.If Kelly and the offense are for real this year ….make it happen at Ok. Defense will be there without a doubt. Secondary has not been tested because of extreme D in the trenches and LB play…corners and safties will be tested again in our soft spots there. If we have all the goods to win it will show. Stanford was a great win and I was there for it ….but to think BK and the Irish offense can come out and dominate with the run and vanilla offensive sets is a recipe for a loss. Hoping EG has been coached up this week to become the run threat and first or third down hero.
WE have the talent. Lets make it happen BK…no more Purdue or BYU by attrition.

By: The Piper

The Piper — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:24:15 +0000

I’ve been calling for an OU win all week. But this does have the interesting whiff of the USC v ND game from last year….except we’re the visitor, and they’re the ones turning this into the Super Bowl.

We just need our guys to listen to Herb Brooks’ lead on this one as the clock ticks down. “Stay focused. Play your game. Play your game.” All this other crap is noise. Just like it was for first 106 yrs of ND teams.

By: Cool Breeze

Cool Breeze — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:03:31 +0000

It can’t be worse than the Ohio State loss to the Irish in 1935, 77 years ago. This was for most Buckeye fans the worst loss in the history of OSU football and the Irish were hated. Down through the years years, before other game scores were posted on the OSU scoreboard, a huge cheer would erupt in Buckeye Stadium when the ND score was announced over the PA system and the Irish were losing. We all know the animosity of OSU towards ND, and it all started with that game.

By: rockmcd

rockmcd — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:53:51 +0000

“Though I imagine he’ll need (his 2 cents) back” was very clever. Nicely done.

By: Subway Alunmi Station

Subway Alunmi Station — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:16:16 +0000

There is such a thing as over-hype, drinking too much of the wrong kool-aide and getting caught up in feeding frenzy. You are right on, the yellow journalism and beating of hate tom-toms have reached a fever pitch in Norman. I think that is a good thing for our lads if the OU Team buys into all that crap. The McGee resurrection is indeed a miracle, something more in line with Kiffen than Stoops.

By: Jeff Walker

Jeff Walker — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:03:01 +0000

Very Nice summary of this unique angle relative to this weeks opponent, Coff. Very good job, with excellent last 2 sentences. I also really enjoyed a link post you had earlier this week, relative to nice little film clips of the 1957(?) ND v. Ok game, in which the severe dearth of any thought of kicking field goals was quite strange.

By: ndtnguy

ndtnguy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:48:08 +0000

You know, I understand hanging on to history. I think it’s acceptable for ND folks to resent Michigan because of Fielding Yost. I think it’s OK for Irishmen to look suspiciously at the English or for Poles and Russians to get along poorly.

But if you’re going to hold a grudge, have it be for something untoward: boycotts, plunder, dirty play. The attitude from Norman appears to be that since they won 47 games in a row, that whoever they played had a sacred duty to lose. The idea that one might harbor some smouldering hatred for half a century over an entirely ordinary game of football is, frankly, somewhat absurd.