NOTREDAMECHIEF
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Nope, saw it somewhere and thought it was cool. Now your sig is awesome!!
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NOTREDAMECHIEF
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"I thought it was a natural game to play with two of the nation's powers and two recognizable coaches," Parseghian told The Tribune in 1995. "Plus I was from Ohio. But Woody was against it. He didn't want to play such stout non-conference competition."
And you all simply ignore this?
And you all simply ignore this?
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Are you stirring the pot NDC?
MightbeaBuck
with hat in hand
You got me - I agree with Woody, as usual. I too am against Parseghian being from Ohio.
There aren't too many in my circle of friends that care what an old time Notre Dame coach used to think, or didn't think.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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12/7/05
12/7/05
OSU NOTEBOOK: No luck for Irish in bowls
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Times New Roman, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]OSU NOTEBOOK TODD PORTER[/FONT]
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AP Terry Gilliam HOPING TO RETURN Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter (front), shown hitting Illinois quarterback Tim Brasic along with teammate A.J. Hawk, hopes to be back for the Fiesta Bowl as he continues to recover from a broken fibula suffered in the finale against Michigan.
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Call it the unluck of the Irish.
Luck has not been with Notre Dame each of the last seven times the Irish has played in a college bowl game. In fact, the Fighting Irish have not won a postseason game since beating Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl to end the 1993 season.
When Notre Dame won that game, 24-21, quarterback Brady Quinn was just another Columbus kid in junior high school. Quinn, a Dublin Coffman High School graduate, leads the Irish into the Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State as a top-five Heisman Trophy candidate.
But seven straight bowl losses, the most recent coming in Tempe, Ariz., at last year’s Insight Bowl?
“That’s something that obviously needs to end,” Quinn told reporters. “It’s been going on far too long.
You know that we’ve been working towards that as one of our goals: Ending that streak.”
Notre Dame is 1-2 all time in the Fiesta Bowl, winning its first game there in 1988 and losing its last two (1994, 2000).
Before this season, the golden dome began to tarnish. Charlie Weis was hired, then given a contract extension after nearly beating No. 1 USC.
Now the Fighting Irish, at least the seniors leaving the program, have an opportunity to exit Notre Dame having restored pride. Prior to this year’s 9-2 finish, the Irish produced six wins or less in three of the last four years.
“(The bowl streak) is a motivational factor,” senior linebacker Brandon Hoyte told reporters. “To go out there and be able to ... leave this program where it should be, and make sure that Notre Dame stays on top through my tenure, that’s important.”
CARPENTER HEALING Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter is healing from a broken fibula he suffered on his first play of the Michigan game. Whether Carpenter will be able to play in the Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl is unknown, Head Coach Jim Tressel believes Carpenter’s status won’t be determined until OSU arrives in Arizona after Christmas. “I am going to be very conservative,” Tressel said. “We don’t want to do anything to jeopardize his future.” Carpenter told reporters over the weekend his recovery time is six to eight weeks. From the Michigan game to Jan. 2 is 45 days, close to the seven-week range. Carpenter is among three OSU LBs (A.J. Hawk and Anthony Schlegel) who are likely to be first-day NFL draft picks.
HOLMES LEANING TOWARD LEAVING Wide receiver Santonio Holmes has told those close to the team he plans on leaving Ohio State after his junior season and declaring for the NFL Draft. Holmes, a junior, leads the Buckeyes with 48 receptions, 853 yards and 10 TDs. Tressel’s personal rule is to recommend juniors who are projected first-round picks to enter the draft if they wish. Otherwise, he believes another season will help them improve from second or third-round status to the first round. Holmes is a projected first-round pick.
LOVE THE DESERT? Heading back to the Fiesta Bowl makes this the third time in four years Ohio State will have played in Tempe in a BCS game. Tressel is 2-0 in his previous two Fiesta Bowls. Next year, the national championship game will be the Fiesta Bowl. If OSU is able to find itself among the top two in the final 2006 BCS standings, the Buckeyes will have played in the Fiesta Bowl four out of five years.
BUCKEYES Hawk will hit the awards banquet circuit this week. He is a finalist for the Butkus and Lombardi awards and the Lott Trophy. ... Steve Rehrig, Marcus Freeman and Rory Nicol will not play in the Fiesta Bowl because of season-long injuries. ... Ohio State closed the regular season by winning six straight, including four against Top 25 teams. Reach Repository sports writer Todd Porter at (330) 580-8340 or e-mail: [email protected]
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NightmaresDad
Woody Rules!
I wonder when the new book: "Notre Dame - Return to Glory (and we mean it this time!)" is coming out?
I'm sure they started writing it just after the scUM game. I hear there's 2 chapters devoted to the "near win" against USC. 1 chapter about the game, and 1 entirely about where the ball should have been spotted when Leinart fumbled out of bounds. GPS and NASA satellites were used to determine it to within 100 microns.
Also, extensive engineering studies were included to determine just how much additional force Reggie Bush provided on the TD play (Conclusion:without it, Leinart wouldn't have been able to score in 1,495,563 years - with it, the Domers could not have stopped Leinart with anything less than 42 players at the point of attack)
I'm sure they started writing it just after the scUM game. I hear there's 2 chapters devoted to the "near win" against USC. 1 chapter about the game, and 1 entirely about where the ball should have been spotted when Leinart fumbled out of bounds. GPS and NASA satellites were used to determine it to within 100 microns.
Also, extensive engineering studies were included to determine just how much additional force Reggie Bush provided on the TD play (Conclusion:without it, Leinart wouldn't have been able to score in 1,495,563 years - with it, the Domers could not have stopped Leinart with anything less than 42 players at the point of attack)
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ohiobuck94
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ND the legend
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42106
The Onion Sports
SOUTH BEND, IN—With their football renaissance derailed, at least for the moment, by a current 5-2 record that includes losses to rivals USC and unranked Michigan State, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have elected to improve in the one area where they still outclass all other college football teams: their legendary history.
"Although we have great hopes for the future of our football program, Notre Dame has greater hopes for a facet of that program that is far more important to our university: our past," Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White said in a press conference Monday. "With that in mind, we will be making improvements, additions, and revisions that, like our history itself, have been 118 years in the making."
Notre Dame's history, perhaps the most storied in sports, already includes such legends as Knute Rockne, George Gipp, and Joe Theismann. However, once the program's history has been revised, it will also include Hall of Famers such as Bo Jackson, formerly of Auburn; Archie Griffin, formerly of Ohio State; and Red Grange, formerly of Illinois.
"All these Hall of Fame players are definitely worthy of going down as the greatest in history," Notre Dame coach Charles Weis said. "And since the College Football Hall of Fame is right down the road from us here in South Bend, we can easily make sure that the history they go down in is Notre Dame's."
Weis said that, while he certainly inherited a good history when he took the coaching job in South Bend, he wants to make that history a great one.
"I fully intend to be the primary architect of Notre Dame history's return to prominence and relevance," Weis said. "I inherited a program that had only won 11 national championships between 1924 and 2005. I promise you that, by this time next year, the Fighting Irish will have won at least 10 more in that same time period."
Director White and Coach Weis said that although the improvement of the 1887-2005 seasons will not be finalized until later this year, they have already begun drawing up plans for the historical revision.
Some of the highlights of Notre Dame's new history:
1869: The first college football game is played this year, on Nov. 6, between Princeton and Rutgers, with the understanding that the winner will go on to play Notre Dame later in the afternoon for the national championship
1887: University board approves the Athletic Department's request for a new sports team, and Notre Dame football is officially born on the playing fields of South Bend, IN, the same year as future Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is born in West Virginia
1936: The Fighting Irish football squad travels to Nazi Germany to represent America at the Berlin Olympics; ND split end Jesse Owens gains 187 yards and scores three touchdowns in a 42-17 gold-medal-winning rout of the heavily favored Rommel-coached SS squad
1943: With the boys fighting World War II overseas, the women of Notre Dame take the reins of the football team and pummel the notorious draft-dodging Michigan Wolverines to bring home another national title to South Bend
1944: In December, the Notre Dame defense successfully holds off a German advance to win the Battle of the Bulge; meanwhile, in the Pacific theater, the Irish offense invades and retakes the Philippines; the team finishes the season ranked #2 in all polls
1956: Future Notre Dame quarterback and six-time Heisman Trophy winner Joe Montana is on June 11 in New Eagle, PA of a vestal virgin born
1957: Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung, in a vote that remains controversial to this very day, splits the Heisman Trophy with the man who is now widely regarded as the best football player of all time, halfback Jim Brown of Notre Dame
1961: 31 points down in the fourth quarter of an away game against highly ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame, led by 12-year-old freshman phenom Joe Theismann, scores 42 points to win in overtime
1970: Notre Dame turns down offers from the ACC, the Big Ten, and the National Football League, electing to remain a Division I independent
1975: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an undersized fourth-string transfer student, is allowed to dress for and play in the last and only game of his college career; in the final moments of the game, "Rudy" tackles the Georgia Tech quarterback, forcing a fumble which rolls into the end zone and is recovered for an Irish victory; Notre Dame jumps up 23 spots in the polls for a share of the national championship; Ruettiger is awarded the Butkus and Nagurski trophies
1984: In the last seconds of the national championship at the Orange Bowl, Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary pass is intercepted in the end zone by Notre Dame cornerback Deion Sanders and returned 106 yards for the winning touchdown
1991: All-time Notre Dame scoring leader Jerome Bettis is given the nickname "The Bus" not only for his great size and reliability, but also for his ability to put the entire Fighting Irish team on his back and carry them to away games as far away as Florida and California
2005: The Oct. 15 victory of the Fighting Irish over #1 ranked USC, 27-31, is marred somewhat when Trojan Matt Leinart, who attempts to run the ball into the end zone in a last-second quarterback sneak, gets hit by the entire Notre Dame defense and is killed instantly as time runs out
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42106
The Onion Sports
SOUTH BEND, IN—With their football renaissance derailed, at least for the moment, by a current 5-2 record that includes losses to rivals USC and unranked Michigan State, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have elected to improve in the one area where they still outclass all other college football teams: their legendary history.
"Although we have great hopes for the future of our football program, Notre Dame has greater hopes for a facet of that program that is far more important to our university: our past," Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White said in a press conference Monday. "With that in mind, we will be making improvements, additions, and revisions that, like our history itself, have been 118 years in the making."
Notre Dame's history, perhaps the most storied in sports, already includes such legends as Knute Rockne, George Gipp, and Joe Theismann. However, once the program's history has been revised, it will also include Hall of Famers such as Bo Jackson, formerly of Auburn; Archie Griffin, formerly of Ohio State; and Red Grange, formerly of Illinois.
"All these Hall of Fame players are definitely worthy of going down as the greatest in history," Notre Dame coach Charles Weis said. "And since the College Football Hall of Fame is right down the road from us here in South Bend, we can easily make sure that the history they go down in is Notre Dame's."
Weis said that, while he certainly inherited a good history when he took the coaching job in South Bend, he wants to make that history a great one.
"I fully intend to be the primary architect of Notre Dame history's return to prominence and relevance," Weis said. "I inherited a program that had only won 11 national championships between 1924 and 2005. I promise you that, by this time next year, the Fighting Irish will have won at least 10 more in that same time period."
Director White and Coach Weis said that although the improvement of the 1887-2005 seasons will not be finalized until later this year, they have already begun drawing up plans for the historical revision.
Some of the highlights of Notre Dame's new history:
1869: The first college football game is played this year, on Nov. 6, between Princeton and Rutgers, with the understanding that the winner will go on to play Notre Dame later in the afternoon for the national championship
1887: University board approves the Athletic Department's request for a new sports team, and Notre Dame football is officially born on the playing fields of South Bend, IN, the same year as future Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is born in West Virginia
1936: The Fighting Irish football squad travels to Nazi Germany to represent America at the Berlin Olympics; ND split end Jesse Owens gains 187 yards and scores three touchdowns in a 42-17 gold-medal-winning rout of the heavily favored Rommel-coached SS squad
1943: With the boys fighting World War II overseas, the women of Notre Dame take the reins of the football team and pummel the notorious draft-dodging Michigan Wolverines to bring home another national title to South Bend
1944: In December, the Notre Dame defense successfully holds off a German advance to win the Battle of the Bulge; meanwhile, in the Pacific theater, the Irish offense invades and retakes the Philippines; the team finishes the season ranked #2 in all polls
1956: Future Notre Dame quarterback and six-time Heisman Trophy winner Joe Montana is on June 11 in New Eagle, PA of a vestal virgin born
1957: Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung, in a vote that remains controversial to this very day, splits the Heisman Trophy with the man who is now widely regarded as the best football player of all time, halfback Jim Brown of Notre Dame
1961: 31 points down in the fourth quarter of an away game against highly ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame, led by 12-year-old freshman phenom Joe Theismann, scores 42 points to win in overtime
1970: Notre Dame turns down offers from the ACC, the Big Ten, and the National Football League, electing to remain a Division I independent
1975: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an undersized fourth-string transfer student, is allowed to dress for and play in the last and only game of his college career; in the final moments of the game, "Rudy" tackles the Georgia Tech quarterback, forcing a fumble which rolls into the end zone and is recovered for an Irish victory; Notre Dame jumps up 23 spots in the polls for a share of the national championship; Ruettiger is awarded the Butkus and Nagurski trophies
1984: In the last seconds of the national championship at the Orange Bowl, Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary pass is intercepted in the end zone by Notre Dame cornerback Deion Sanders and returned 106 yards for the winning touchdown
1991: All-time Notre Dame scoring leader Jerome Bettis is given the nickname "The Bus" not only for his great size and reliability, but also for his ability to put the entire Fighting Irish team on his back and carry them to away games as far away as Florida and California
2005: The Oct. 15 victory of the Fighting Irish over #1 ranked USC, 27-31, is marred somewhat when Trojan Matt Leinart, who attempts to run the ball into the end zone in a last-second quarterback sneak, gets hit by the entire Notre Dame defense and is killed instantly as time runs out
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ohiobuck94
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A picture of Coach Tressel, Archie Griffin, President Holbrook, AD Gene Smith, and Andy Geiger digging graves to put the ND team in after the Feista Bowl.
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A picture of Coach Tressel, Archie Griffin, President Holbrook, AD Gene Smith, and Andy Geiger digging graves to put the ND team in after the Feista Bowl.
Nice picture. I'm glad that all 5 of those people shared the honor, especially Andy Geiger. It's a good example of a little thing done right by our athletic department.
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