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SportsPickle.com - Vegas Picks Notre Dame to Lose Its Spring Game

Vegas Picks Notre Dame to Lose Its Spring Game

A dreadful 3-9 season last year that offered precious little hope or improvement has clearly raised serious doubts about Notre Dame football going into this season, as Las Vegas oddsmakers have picked the Fighting Irish to lose their spring game next Saturday in a blowout.

?They are awful on both offense and defense. Special teams, too,? says Donnie Sabata, senior oddsmaker with Las Vegas Sports Consultants. ?And the first-string and second-string suck equally. I realize this is an intrasquad game, but I confidently predict both Notre Dames will lose badly.?

Vegas oddsmakers agree across the board.

?Just think how bad Notre Dame was at the end of last season,? says Michael Riley, sports book director for Red Rock Casino. ?Now consider that they haven?t practiced regularly in almost five months. We?re talking never before seen levels of football suck. Players who simply run towards the correct end zone when they have the ball will probably secure themselves starting jobs.?

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ND's Sharpley is Double Teaming
Evan Sharpley entered the game as a pinch hitter and promptly laced a run-scoring double down the left-field line in an early-season victory over Iowa. Afterward, one of his teammates was amazed that he could sit on the bench for so long before entering the game and making an immediate impact.

Notre Dame's backup quarterback and power-hitting first baseman immediately recognized the irony.


''I've been doing that since I got here,'' Sharpley said.


Under different circumstances, Sharpley could be Notre Dame's starting quarterback. But with sophomore-to-be Jimmy Clausen seemingly entrenched as the starter and blue-chip recruit Dayne Crist arriving in South Bend this fall, Sharpley's dream of starting for the Irish might be beginning to fade.



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Taosman;1139282; said:
I predict the Domers will be much improved this season.
May even make a ...(shudder)...Bowl game. :tongue2:
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Well, last year was so bad that it would be hard to do worse than have the worst offense in Div I.

Having someone else calling plays and coordinating the offense and having Tenuta come in has to help. Weis has proven that he just does not have a grasp of the college game and that the schematic advantage he provides is to the opponent.

They could lose as few as three games but might lose five or six games. Either way we can look forward to nonstop stories about how well they are doing against an unremarkable SOS, and how they deserve a BCS bowl appearance.

Personally, I'd like to see them lose five of their first six.
 
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Steve19;1139288; said:
Personally, I'd like to see them lose five of their first six.
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Your personal preference aside. ND starting 1-5 does not fit my plan of sending them to Bolivia :tongue2:

A terrible ND is still a story and I don't want any part of that. I want ND to finish 6-6, 5-7, or 7-5 from now until the end of time. All while never again winning a bowl game. Massive amounts of mediocrity will make ND fade from the college football landscape. If they start 1-5, then they'll be a story. Follow that up with a 5-1, 6-0, or even 4-2 finish and they become a story about weathering hard times, showing improvement, and they become an offseason wait for next year type of story. If ND can finish 6-6 all while never winning or losing more than two in a row, then there will be no hope for next year, and no pride or momentum to speak of for the current year.

Part of my plan is to also have Washington be respectable, say 8-4, every year, but not great. If Ty leads Washington to prominence then the story will be about ND screwing up (which is good), but the story will still be about Notre Dame (which is bad).
 
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I moved the Spring Game fracas posts to the other ND thread. I know its football, but we want to keep discussion on football in this thread and, being off-season and all, seems like the guys might have more fun with that one over there.
 
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ESPN - Huskies agree to ND series, with no games in Connecticut - College Football
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Huskies agree to ND series, with no games in Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn. -- State legislators announced a compromise Wednesday that will allow the University of Connecticut to play a six-game football series with Notre Dame, even though none of those games will be played in Connecticut.

UConn and Notre Dame had been negotiating a 10-game series. The Fighting Irish wanted five of those games played in South Bend Ind., and the five UConn "home" games played at large stadiums in the New York or Boston metropolitan areas -- not at the Huskies' 40,000-seat Rentschler Field.

The agreement reached between UConn and the lawmakers would run from 2011-2017, putting three games at Notre Dame stadium, and three at sites in either Boston, New York or New Jersey. It also requires UConn to play at least six other home games during those seasons at Rentschler Field, as long as the NCAA rules permit a 12-game season and permits a team to use one Football Championship Subdivision win per season as a bowl-eligible win.

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