Beat the Trojans!

OC Domer

1. without a number of bogus penalty calls against nd and non calls against boston college by that all acc ref crew that had to everything in their power to save private ryan and fredo from leaving south bend with a loss, notre dame would have won this game.
2. perhaps fredo has graduated to become sonny since 2 weeks from now fredo/ sonny will be gunned down at the toll booths, just as sonny was, since no acc ref crew is going to save them from defeat at va tech and get out of that town alive.
3. if evan, rather than jimmy, had absorbed all of those vicious hits by bc with no penalties called by the all acc ref crew, would evan have been able to stage the comeback in the 2nd half?
4. we do not know, but we are sure proud to have both evan and jimmy ready to beat usc which comes into town riddled with injuries, in a state of terror because their cover on bushgate has been blown, and with a qb, mark sanchez, who has exactly one game under his belt and loves to throw picks, just like his predecessor booty.
5. since the pac 10 and their refs know that fedworld is watching, they will not dare to come into south bend with another crooked pac 10 ref crew, like the one we saw steal nd's win over usc in 2005.

bob gilleran

1. there is nothing wrong with charlie weis and his coachung staff, including coach latina. the almost complete void in the 2004 and 2005 recruiting classes has nothing to do with them, but goes back to bob davie who took over recruiting during the last few holtz years, when lou's wife was ill, and let the notre dame recruiting network die on the vine while lazy bob davie sat in his office in south bend admiring himself in the mirror.
2. charlie and his staff accomplished miracles in 2005 and 2006 with that one great 2003 recruiting class and a few others and with no depth anywhere and no talent at many key positions.
3. they also went out on the road and recreated the notre dame recruiting network by personnally visiting high schools all over the us and spending a lot of time with the high school coaches, who had not seen anyone from notre dame for decades,coach rooneyat notre dame high school in sherman oaks, ca being just one example.
4. in case you have not noticed, charlie brought in top 10 recruiting classes in 2006 and 2006 and he and corwin and their staffs have lined up the no 1 class for 2008, not one of whom has showed any signs of changing his verbal commitment because of the disaster on paper, so far, this season.
5. things like that do not happen unless coaches convey their dedication to recruits and their families and are forthright and honest with them.

6. oc, we suggest that you take a step back from your numbers cruncher and take a look at the forest, instead of just a few trees.
7. there are no other coaches who could have brought notre dame back from the brink of death in college football.
8. if there are, as you claim, many other college football programs out there that play the game with integrity and real student athletes and have done better than this 2007 team and their coaches this year, taking into account their killer opening schedule and the nearly complete absence of talent in their 2004 and 2005 recruiting classes, mention a few names and you will see that there are none.
9. sure, charlie and corwin and these young players can and will do better. however, we should thank them for their dedication, courage under fire,and ability to turn around notre dame's football program, with integrity, instead of taking stupid pot shots at them as if they were just statistics.
10. we live in los angeles. we are intimately familiar with the wrong way to turn a football program around, as oc should be. you just need to look at pete carroll and his renegade usc football program.
11. we are immensely proud of charlie weis and corwin brown and their staffs, including coach latina, and of the fine courageous young student athletes who have helped to keep notre dame football on the field in the face of impossible adversities while charlie and his fine staff hit the pavement and turned recruiting and the program around.
12. the last thing they need is to be hit by baseless insults from what should be friendly sources.

bob gilleran