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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Prediction.....PAIN!....


Really...Really?.... Come on folks!... At this point every magazine, analyst, Tom, Dick and Harry has made predictions....Here's one from your old buddy Damefan.....PAIN!...

Pain...in the name of...We will feel some PAIN...We will inflict some PAIN...but at the end of the day the scoreboard should, and yes I said SHOULD, have ND with more points!... We will see...

Everybody wants to talk Defense...and you know what?  I understand!....

Let's talk the past 6 seasons!...One of my favorite books for business and if you haven't checked it out...GO READ IT!.... is....

Bear with me for a moment....ND is not...and has not...been that far from being a great team in quite some time!...

05...MSU loss...Bush Push....All that was missing between us and a BCS Championship berth....Good Defense.....

06...UM loss....USC...Loss... again the only thing from a back to back BCS Championship berths...Good Defense....

07...FROSH vs Seniors...We lose that battle every time!...Ty played us into that mess....

08...All our losses were not because we couldn't score points!..... it was...Good Defense....

09...See 05...06...08....etc...Ya see a pattern?...

Now why good to great.... because I don't expect our Defense to be GREAT right outta the gate...

But what I do expect is for us to be at least GOOD!.... If our D is good....just good....we will be VERY DANGEROUS!...

We don't need to be great on D to be a great team....we just need to be good!....

Sure there will be games were our D is great....and that is awesome...we just need to make sure there are NO GAMES where we are less than good!....

Our margin for error is slight....but it's there!....

We will have games that our D bails our O out!...and vice versa!... Get ready, this will be a long...but highly rewarding season!....

You want predictions!....Here we go...


1. We will have a solid D secondary!....Led by Harrison Smith...and Gary Gray....as well as my boy RJ Blanton!....(sub in rotation Motta and Slaughter) Smith..Gray...Blanton will have seasons that will send them into the NFL draft....No question...1st and 2nd round players!...

2. As a whole the Defense will gain NATIONAL attention by week 5 and the U$C game will be on everyone's calendar as a make or break game for both programs...

3. Brady Hoke...pictured above will give ND everything they can handle for 3 quarters!....you put them in whatever order you want....(we either jump out early and put enough distance so they can't catch up...or we wear out their lack of depth and own the 4th quarter!...) but ND's talent and depth will make the final push and send the IRISH into week three undefeated!...

4. I will not go into detail about how I know this...but expect to see this guy in Ireland to play NAVY!....


5. NO DISTRACTIONS!... The ups and downs of last season will seem like a distant memory....we got hit by SO MANY distractions last season I think we got four or five seasons of BullSh#t outta the way...Karma should be swinging our way....It was almost like GOD was testing Coach Kelly to see if he was the man for the long haul!.... Injuries....Sullivans tragic (but somehow Coach Kelly's fault?)  Death....Crying Wolf "supposed rape"...etc...  So No more pulling your hair out!...


The bottom line is...this is our time!.... We've survived the storm....weathered the elements....and we are still standing!...

What the college football universe doesn't realize is....We are already a legit 10 win team NOW!...

Hell, put us in the Big 10 let us cupcake our schedule, with some Eastern Michigan....some Akron or Toledo laughable games!....

Trade out our legit murders row of opponents and we are 10-2 EVERY SEASON!...

So what?...What have we accomplished...We think we're elite...just so we can show up to a bowl and have the SEC murder us like they do almost every season to some undeserving qualifier?..

When the IRISH walk into the big game they will be tested....and ANGRY!

They will be ready...and they will show college football what doing it right...and not dodging the big boys looks like!...

So rejoice my friends and realize that the dark times are at our back...and only the light of VICTORY lays before us!.... GO IRISH!....and GOD BLESS!....








2 comments:

  1. Dame fan, so what should I expect this weekend in terms of score? Blow out? Close? Nail bitter?

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  2. If I remember "Good to Great", the companies described had phenomenal leaders, they hired the right people, and they had an unwaivering focus.

    ND has their leader now in Kelly. He knows who he wants on his bus, and he has his unwaivering focus: Win for the lady on the dome.

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