JohnboyND7

Once they had to settle for that field goal attempt I was assuming it'd be a bad day. Once they missed it I told my mom the game was over. You arent going to beat Clemson if you don't make them pay for their mistakes because you know they will make you pay for yours. Had they made the field goal, could have been a different game maybe. But overall a godawful display. I hope they miss the playoff and draw a game with OU or Florida. Really have no desire to go to the playoff only to play Alabama and get run off the field again.

Hopefully the good people of grand forks find an excuse to go over there for food more

What?

Don't look now but Clemson is in a dogfight

They have certainly fallen off as the season has went.

No. Neither of them is respected by the committee and won't be.

Big issue for schools regardless of whether they make donors mad...some people with tickets for years or decades will not renew tickets after a year of watching at home on TV. Hockey might be a bit better protected because its so much better in person, but watching a game from your couch with reasonably priced food and a six pack you bought for the cost of one beer at the Ralph is rather enticing once you get used to it.

Allegedly irritated some rather wealthy donors who might be cutting donations

They had just gotten a new organ when I was there the first time. Beautiful church. Mass before the game was lit AF. Packed like a State Funeral and everyone was a little drunk so there was big energy with the singing. Right, they do an eye test. But games matter to them too. They might believe Clemson is a top 4 team if ND beats them again but they aren't going to put a 2-loss Clemson in the playoff. Maybe Notre Dame and Clemson should both shut down their seasons until the playoff and claim they have serious outbreaks. They both have a strong enough resume to stay in and Clemson can't afford another loss but has some good wins.. It would be pretty fun to see how the Committee handled that. I dont like Ohio State but don't really hate them. I would hate if the committee put in a 5 win team whose best win is Indiana.

Big Ben better play until he's dead or I am ready to move on...which may be never.

I dont see why he would benefit from being on the bench for full seasons. I think he needs an off-season more than just about anyone in the league, but I dont see some significant benefit from sitting on the bench during prime years. Not sure what he'd learn from a veteran being in front of him. I dont think there has ever been a knock on his preparation or work ethic or anything like that. Still has a strong arm, moves around well enough. Just a bad bad year over in Philly that can't get over soon enough. I can't imagine him going anywhere, would be bizarre for Philly to cut him and they arent going to be high enough in the draft to get one of the franchise dudes, and even if they did, they still have a ton of huge issues on that team that aren't fixed by replacing him.

Yeah Biden isn't really cut out to be a dictator, besides, the House and Senate aren't going to be rubber stamping his agenda if it is remotely controversial. I'm with you on Harris. I'm not sure exactly what she is supposed to represent. Pence fit the "establishment conservative generic GOP governor" bill, Kamala fits the half black woman bill at best? I mean, no idea how he fell, could've been playing with a dog I suppose. I dont think it matters much unless they find out he has cancer or something and were trying to hide it.. Though it is amusing to see the media take it as Gospel after four years of questioning everything. All of the big ones but Fox will be complicit. Ben Rhodes bragged about how the previous administration could basically write the stories themselves because the media would pretty much copy them word for word. Jake Tapper and a couple others might occasionally do a good job to keep up appearances.

Bob Davie....the first of three very bad hires made in a row. The Pope might be infallible but the Admin down there certainly is fallible.

I've been there a couple times. 2016, terrible ND team, terrible seats, beautiful fall day and was absolutely the most magical day of my life. Beautiful campus. Tailgating everywhere. Lots of tradition everywhere you look. 2018, updated stadium. Good seats. Pretty winter day. Snow everywhere. Awesome experience again though I may have had a couple beverages too many before we got to our seats. Should be on every college football fan's bucket list I think. Pretty unique deal over there. The town itself is kinda a dump, but the campus is extraordinary and the stadium and the gold helmets and all that make it special.

Your post implied the rallies were wrong about enthusiasm. There was a ton of enthusiasm, substantially more than I think many expected. The rallies showed that the hype was real. If UND runs a new offensive system in hockey because the old system isn't scoring enough goals, and they score a ton of goals throughout the season, and lose in the championship game 6-5, are you going to claim that because they didn't win the championship, the change in offensive system didn't have its desired effect? Or will you reach a much more reasonable conclusion that the objective of the new strategy was to score more goals, and that the more goals you score the more likely it is that you'll win games? I don't understand the weird infatuation with "Ruddy" or what he has to do with rallies being effective or indicative of enthusiasm or your inability to see a world beyond binary outcomes. If I eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and lose a game of monopoly later, I suspect your analysis would be "well obviously eating the sandwich was the wrong choice because he lost the game later, the guy he lost to ate a hot dog so he should have eaten a hot dog."

Lol I think its safe to say there was big enthusiasm. He grew his vote totals by like 10 million votes. Pretty sure very few Presidents have pulled that off. Genuinely curious, how do you consistently draw really weird and objectively wrong conclusions?

Idk how the committee puts in a team playing half as many games as the others, and without a single big win. If they put OSU in, I think they will basically be telling everyone that your record doesn't really matter as long as we think you look like a good football team. Someone did a statistical breakdown on this a few years ago. Basically the conclusion was ND is underrated just as often as they are overrated. They have a unique position in college football as an independent with a large following, leads to many haters. The biggest problem I have with the haters is they apply a standard that only seems to apply to Notre Dame. ND got beat by Clemson a couple years ago in the playoffs and immediately everyone goes "SEE THEY DONT BELONG!" The following week Clemson beats the piss out of Alabama and nobody says "Alabama doesn't belong." Notre Dame in 2012 has a magical season of close wins and makes it to the national championship. Gets steamrolled by Alabama, the consensus is that Notre Dame doesn't belong. Conveniently, people ignore that a ton of the title games in the BCS system weren't competitive games. Heck, Alabama only got in because Kansas State and Oregon (two teams ND would have likely beat) both got upset late in the season. Notre Dame isn't Alabama, Ohio State, or Clemson right now in terms of recruiting and in the modern game, they probably never will be unless recruits are listening to their mothers, but they are right in the top 5-10 programs in the country. This year, there are only two teams I think are better than them, Alabama and Clemson. I think they'd beat Ohio State, OSU has a pretty average defense and Notre Dame has proven that they can slow down high powered offenses and ND's offense is pretty well balanced at this point so they can move the ball against pretty much anyone. They are much less flashy than the other high end teams and have less depth, but they can probably play with anyone now.

Polls/surveys in 2018 (two years AFTER Trump was elected) showed that around 3/4 of Democrats believed that Russia actually hacked voting machines and flipped votes in 2016. I am pretty sure the "elections are unfair if my team loses" is likely the new norm. Has anyone here claimed Trump is such a nice guy? If anything, many have supported him because he ISN'T a nice guy. You arent a very bright person, are you?

Yeah seems dumb to claim Wentz is bad. Dude nearly won an MVP. He's had some problems staying healthy, as has most of his team. Not an ideal situation to be in anymore but thats life.

Notre Dame dominating and Michigan being really terrible is really fun

I won't dispute the "cant trust the news"...I'm with you 100% there. Journalism as a profession has become activism (whether left or right). Trump isn't a statesman. I'm with you there too. But the whole "i demand loyalty" is literally every politician who has been alive your entire life. No President who had ever ever lived is going to appoint a dude who they don't think is loyal. That was a brand new invention created by the media. The media and Dems had ZERO words to say when Eric Holder, our attorney general, referred to himself as Barack Obama's wingman. Yet Bill Barr got accused of every fucking crime under the Sun. Thats not a criticism of Eric Holder by the way, the AG is appointed by POTUS, therefore it should be assumed they have a good relationship. This entire "oh trump's appointees have his back, thats not normal" idea is retarded. Thats entirely normal. For how much people claim "I dont want a regular politician" they sure have a tendency to vote for regular politicians. Joe Biden is not particularly different than Trump when it comes to lies. His career is full of them...they sunk his presidential aspirations before I was even born. The idea that he is an honest politician is crafted by the DNC in tandem with the media. I dont think they cheated to get him elected, but he is as much of a liar as Donald Trump is, he is senile(Trump might be too), and he's a bad guy. For being such a devoted Catholic...he can't pronounce the word Psalms. Dude is effectively excommunicated per the Catechism so...I mean..I hope becoming President a year before you die is worth it because if HIS OWN FAITH is correct...well... His presidency will be entirely ineffective in all likelihood and I like that a lot. But the idea of him returning anything good to the White House is objectively false.

I see satire is not your strong suit...not that I'm surprised. Sometimes its difficult to remember how dumb some folks (folx in modern lib spelling) are.

Consistent theme with Donald is that 2018 and 2020 seem to indicate suburban voters (aka white married women) didn't like him. It is what it is. Giving women the right to vote was truly stupid if you think about it from a male perspective....why on earth would you give someone power when you don't have any reason to?

Well it made sense that Biden would pick up some of the voters who might identify as moderates who don't like Trump. Biden is also a much more likable person than Hillary, some who stayed home as a protest may have come out this time too. Trump is polarizing, that probably drove some turnout too.

Yeah I would think the goal would be to highlight the cases benefitting my argument. Oddly enough, the whole liberal talking point of "Trump's judicial nominees are awful and unqualified and biased" seems to be getting #rekt lol