Comments on: The Time Is Now

By: TplDomr90

TplDomr90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:06:42 +0000

How about Connaughton’s mindset of “we’re not going home today!” backed with his subsequent performance. Leaders lead!

By: NCHDomer

NCHDomer — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:21:23 +0000

I, too, was there for both the ’73 and ’74 games. The ’73 game was the greatest, and loudest, game I ever attended at Notre Dame Stadium. Tom Clements remains my favorite ND player. While it seems now the tradition is for students to stand during the games, my recollection is that we did not do that back then. The first and only time I remember it happening during my school years was the ’73 SC game. And one bit of trivia: the USC Trojan Marching Band made its first trip to Notre Dame that year. Also, the band played Frankenstein, a current Rock & Roll radio hit, which were not really performed by marching bands at that time. In the liner notes of the recent anniversary CD put out by the SC Band, it references that the ND students gave the band a 3 minute standing ovation after the song. I seem to recall that we did. I have liked listening to the Trojan Band ever since then. Cool game. Cool opponent. Cool rivalry.

By: Bernie P., ND '74

Bernie P., ND '74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:19:30 +0000

I was also there in ’73, in the Senior Section. The most exciting think I’ve ever witnessed in sports was Penick’s 85 yard run at the start of the 2nd half. Fabulous, just Fabulous!

By: canuck75

canuck75 — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:57:21 +0000

The Anthony Davis nightmare was 1974. I was there, crowing a little too loudly at halftime (24-6 ?)us.

On the other hand I was also there in 73. My pal Eric Penick never looked better.

By: Kevin Byrnes

Kevin Byrnes — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:06:02 +0000

We will have to deliver the same kind of determination that 1973 team had. We escaped today, though there was a good push through the midway point of the 2nd half. (That USC game is one among my most vivid memories of an ND home FB game…standin’ in the soph section.)

By: Paul Niland

Paul Niland — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:23:14 +0000

There is the ‘Exploding Star’ team: see Davidson ’08 or Roosevelt Chapman ’84; the ‘Nightmare Prep’ game: This is the team that plays a style you have not seen all year – that would be West Virginia. They are full court all game. Completely relentless.

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:01:52 +0000

I’d add “flywheel team” as in one that is committed to controlling tempo in order to beat you. More than just slowing you down or speeding you up, they force you to execute at both ends of the floor. To me, Wisconsin fits that mold and KO correctly suggested that Virginia is in that club as well.

By: Irish tool

Irish tool — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:30:14 +0000

Louisville is definitely a cockroach team this year.