Here comes Notre Dame
- I had forgotten that Greg Little initially committed to Notre Dame but later changed his mind and signed with UNC. Charlie Weis says there are no hard feelings. Insert you own Charlie Weis joke here now.
- Will UNC wear navy jerseys against Notre Dame? In an interview this morning on 850 the Buzz, Adam Gold asked if they would be breaking out navy jerseys similar to the navy pants we saw against Rutgers. Davis’ answer? “You never know.” Translation: UNC is so wearing navy on Saturday.
- Joe Ovies is having a little fun with my diatribe against Heather Dinich here and here. All I will say is: Thanks for the web traffic.
- You know that UNC secondary might be pretty good and they live in the same house too.
- UNC is apparently one of the top five biggest suprises this season according to Fox Sports along with Vanderbilt, Ball State, Northwestern and Duke. I would venture to say whoever did that little feature has not been paying attention since UNC’s success is not nearly as surprising as the other four.
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WOW, I made that Joe Ovies blog too! Congratulations to “us” then (lol)
AEM
It is good for exposure so enjoy!
I can use that (lol)
Heck, if I knew that it would take hating on an ESPN person to get me some exposure I would have done it a long time ago! (lol) Instead I have always been nice to them!
AEM
can’t wait to see the navy blue jerseys. This would be the perfect game for them.
If I want to see navy blue jersey’s I’ll go to a dook game (not much chance of that).
I don’t get the navy colored stuff. What’s wrong with Carolina blue?
If you go to a Duke game you won’t see navy blue jerseys since Duke uses more of a royal blue.
According to some Dook website I found it sounds to me as if Dook blue is “Prussian blue” – “On September 23, 1965, the Executive Committee of Duke’s Board of Trustees adopted Prussian blue as Duke’s official color. We know of no other official action on the matter of school colors.”
At http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx I got a response “There are no results for the code and criteria entered.” when I entered “Prussian blue”.
Gee, that was a lot more trouble than it was worth!
In my humble opinion, Notre Dame is one of the most underrated teams this year. They’re 4-1 like us, and Paulus the quarterback is getting better each week, and their running back (?Allen?) is tremendous. Las Vegas seems to have us as a 4-7 point favorite but I personally think we’re the underdog. We could come out of this with a 17 point loss if we don’t stop thinking about 11-1 and take this game lightly.
Everything is looking up for the heels! Bring out the navy jerseys!! Can’t wait til we give the golden domes a “golden” shower this weekend. Chris, Notre Dame ranks 105th in the nation in rushing offense… Tremendous running back? Where? Allen Armando is averaging less than 50 yds/game. He had 59 yards vs. San Diego State, 4 yds vs. Michigan, 8 yds vs. Michigan State, and 33 yds vs. Stanford. Hardly tremendous… And Paulus is our quarterback. I think the name your looking for is Clausen. He may be getting better each week but he still has more picks than all of our quarterbacks combined and with our secondary (leading the nation in INT’s) you better believe he has a huge task in front of him. Underdog? I don’t think any of the players are taking this game lightly or any game for that matter. Go HEELS!
I am with you on this Wilf!!! Go blue!!!
Thanks for the correction, Doc, I did obviously mean Clausen. I would like more than anybody for us to crush Notre Dame, I just have that feeling that when people start talking 11-1, that’s about the time that things fall apart. Notre Dame ain’t great, but they’ve won 4 games and Charlie Weis isn’t stupid. I hope the bad feeling that I have about this game is incorrect.
Yeah, that 11-1 talk gets me excited and concerned at the same time. I know where your coming from with that but ultimately its not what the media or fans think about the game, its how the players perceive their next opponent and how they prepare themselves each week. Butch Davis is a great coach and I don’t think he will let the team look past anyone. Plus, the players are excited about winning and have recognized what it takes week in and week out to get the job done. Like Coach said, “If you want more, you have to do more.” Players are buying into Butch and the coaching staff and its showing. Clausen will get his yards thats inevitable but he will also throw some INT’s and you’re right about Weis. It will be a great game make no mistake. I hate to get my hopes up about the season based of what has happened in the past but I am confident things are coming up.
Not to throw water on the fire, but the biggest area that Clausen has improved just this season is his reads. He hasn’t thrown any picks in the past couple of weeks, and that’s because he’s beginning to get more comfortable in looking off defenders.
Also, a couple of his picks are those where they bounce off a receiver and into the arms of a DB, kind of the “look what I found” type. Not to say that’s an excuse, but I don’t necessarily blame Clausen for those.
The big thing for Clausen will be whether or not the receivers can get behind UNC’s secondary. I think ND’s receivers are horribly underrated. Keep an eye on Michael Floyd and Golden Tate during the game on Saturday. These guys are awesome. Hopefully, Kumara will step up at some point and get out of his sophomore slump.
Should be an entertaining game, though.
“Can’t wait til we give the golden domes a “golden” shower this weekend.”
Wait…I thought ND was playing UNC this weekend. Not State!
Wait… How do you figure that comment has anything to do with state? Maybe you need a “golden” shower…
“Golden shower” as in the folks urinating in the stands at Carter Finley.
LOL!!! Tar Heel Fan knows his stuff… I almost forgot about that! Sorry bout the comment jenks i see the relevance now.
That’s exactly what I was going for.
I figure that in my blatant homerism for the Irish, I should probably try to off-set it by insulting State.
Carolina Blue Jerseys in warm-ups….