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DMoney said:
Our record, the polls, the advanced rankings, scoring offense and scoring defense.
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Fool’s gold. We’ve played bad teams poorly. We know it by watching the games. If any numbers are trending positive it’s because of the weak *** schedule we’ve played. You can tell me we’re ranked 12th in the country until you’re blue in the face but we all know we’re most definitely NOT the 12th best team in the country.
 
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B-Cane said:
Any hope that Don, Jr. can simply out-recruit his problems? Like a poor man's Botch?
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1% hope of that. Problem with Don Jr. is he's a good face for the program, and I'm sure he's a pretty likable guy unlike Folden. So if he wins 8 games he'll probably be around for awhile.
 
BoxingRobes said:
Good takes, Legend.

My only addendum...I'm absolutely convinced Cam'Ron Harris is injured. He hasn't been right since the Louisville game (and even in that game, he had a light workload). Not running as hard, not getting yards after contact (a staple of his play), they are seemingly taking him out of situational spots where he would otherwise block or go out for a pass. idk, he just didn't all of a sudden suck or play unlike himself...I think he's hurt but grinding.
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I heard he was whining on Twitter, which belies them protecting him. He's playing horribly, so I assumed he was hurt. When I heard he was whining about PT on Twitter, it made me question that.
 
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The Franchise said:
I answered you last week. There are some great teams, and there are some teams a few steps behind them. Then, there's us and about 50-60 other teams that are average as fck.
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Who are those second-tier teams? You’ve avoided the question for two weeks.

The Franchise said:
We're not playing better football than "the others." We're just playing slightly good enough to beat 1 team with a dog **** backup QB that ND just fed his own **** and a UVAG team without its best players on D and a 3 man QB rotation with no ability to throw a forward pass.
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Miami and Notre Dame are both 3-0 against common opponents. Miami is +67 and Notre Dame is +62. And Notre Dame is 5th in the country.

We are flawed and vulnerable. But we haven’t been average by any objective measure. And if people are using the “eye test,” they should watch other teams besides Alabama and Clemson.
 
The Franchise said:
I hate to say I told you so, but I've seen enough of this program to know what's going on. Let's get right to it, shall we?

I had this revelation while watching Diaz continue to flounder. Diaz reminds me of Don Jr. Looks polished. Yaps a good game. Zero substance. He's a fake manly nerd who talks about manly stuff. His idea of hunting would be to stay in a 5 star hotel in Dubai and be taken to an air conditioned shooting range where they line up a bunch of animals chained to a post 30 feet in front of him and give him a machine gun. It's the nerd life. The difference between the two is Diaz is trying to accomplish something, but he's simply clueless on how to lead.

I've harped on this fact forever, and the nerds don't get it, but you can tell everything about a football team by their focus and effort level. We are devoid of either. Of course, the dopes on here will litter my thread with "we played hard, but Lashlee sucks." We neither played hard or played focused.

We have a few players who give effort, but, overall, we're a lazy skinny jeans group. We're the guys with the tight pants that stop at the bottom of the calves with designer loafers we can't afford and a backpack that costs more than we make in a month.

Let's discuss some specifics in the pros and cons section of this incredible blog.

Pros:
This won't be popular for the guys looking for a scapegoat, but King played a great game. He was on target with some absolute darts. Yes he missed Harley to ice the game, but this game never should have come down to one pass at the end.

Harley. That's by far the best game he's played. He is a hard working kid, who took the criticism of the WRs personally. Good for him.

Chaney. He's our best RB right now. Yeah I said it. He's tough fast and runs harder than a 14 year old boy watching his mom's hot friend, Nancy, paint her toe nails in her bikini.

Pope showed some life and made a great acrobatic catch. Yeah he had another drop, but expecting Pope not to drop an easy pass every game is like expecting me not to ram my Pickett/Yellen takes from last week down your faqquit throats until your mascara runs.

And...that's it.

Cons:

Scaife set the tone early for the type of tenacity and the mental toughness that we have when he got bullrushed like the ghey fat kid whose dad forced him to play Pee Wee football even though he'd much prefer to be playing with his Barbies. This dude's been a major bummer.

Cam. He ran like he didn't want to be out there. I don't know if he's hurt or what, but I'm glad they finally yanked him. On that stretch play he looked like he was carrying a piano on his back. Weak effort last night.

Bolden on the TD to the TE gave a feeble effort. All he had to do was carry the guy out of bounds, and that stops the TD.

Carter needs to get a Target ad at this point. I can see him with the Target bullseye painted on top of his head saying "I love Target!" while running head-first into a wall like the Kool Aid pitcher dude.

Lashlee needs to realize you don't have to force balance for the sake of balance. King had a hot hand, and, in case Lashlee didn't notice, UVAG was without their best defender, Blount, and their other starting S Nelson. Run them ragged with the throw game. Throw it 80% of the time if you have to. UVAG is horrible against the pass and pretty good against the run, so what does Lashlee do? Yep. Force that ******* read option inside zone all night long.

What's with our new habit of running give up handoffs on 3rd down in our own end? We're just giving away series regularly every game with that ****.

Our pass rush was supposed to be a huge strength. It isn't. Phillips is a great effort guy, but if he's even thinking about leaving early, he needs a lobotomy.

Did you see the play where Ivey gave a huge cushion to a QB playing WR for pretty much the 1st time? Yeah, so did I. He let a QB run him off for an easy pitch and catch 1st down on 3rd and 11. That play summed us up. 3rd and 11 and he's bailing against a QB playing WR.

96 yard drive in 2:40 when we should have been icing the game. That drive speaks directly to the mindset of this team and why I have dwindling hope for Diaz. We were celebrating a win up 13 with 10 minutes left instead of bearing down and trying to open it up on them.

We let a 3 QB rotation control us for much of the 1st half. Keep in mind none of those 3 can throw the ball. Then, Diaz tells the halftime reporter "We need to make them beat us throwing it." Yeah no **** Don Jr. That should have been the idea from the beginning.

Gurvan Hall looked like he didn't even care on that coverage bust for the late TD. We were already in "we won, let's start taking pics for the gram" mode.

Tried to tell you guys last week we got lucky Yellen played. Nope. The CISpool clowns came for me claiming Yellen was just as good as Pickett. Then, they spent the whole week trying to be funny about how Pickett was a god. Flash forward to this week and look at what ND did to Yellen on his home field. That desultory performance against Pitt was what I feared for the remainder of the season and why last week's Fireside Chat wasn't all puppies and rainbows.

There are 2 or 3 L's left on this schedule if we play like we have the last 2 weeks.

I said it last week, and I'll stick with it. We're average. And we're average for the same reason we stunk last year--Don Jr. isn't a leader of men. He celebrates ****** efforts in wins against horrible teams like UVAG as if we just won a NC. He's not demanding enough, and it shows by the focus and effort level of his team. D$ tried to tell me we're in that next tier behind the greats, but we aren't unless that next tier consists of about 65 teams.

We are a little better than last year, and that's solely because of King. If we had Perry at the helm right now we'd be a 3 loss team. I don't know about you guys, but this game felt eerily similar to last year against a much better UVAG team with a much better QB and much better D.
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Agree with everything. I don’t understand teams not attacking your opponents weaknesses. It seems so simple. The great Belichick does it weakly. Lashlee forcing the run weekly for no reason. The defense is mediocre at best. NC will destroy our defense if we play like we did the past few weeks.
 
DMoney said:
It was a bad performance. We were lucky to win.

But people use the term “average” without considering the rest of the nation. There is a lot of bad football being played outside the Top 4. We’re playing less bad football than the other teams, which is why we’re 5-1.

This is a Top 25 team to me. It’s not a Top 5 team. It probably isn’t a Top 10 team. The story of the second half will be, “Are we closer to 10 or 25?”
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If you're still asking that question mid way through the year, you're more than likely the latter.jmo

I think most of us knows what a top 10 team looks like. This is not it.
 
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Dwinstitles said:
Facts facts and more facts.....the first two years of a HC everyone wants to give them excuses. On top of that saying we are in that second tier is an absolute joke. Notre Dame and Oregon are that second tier and they would rope us easily.
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Yeah bro idk what fans think that we’re 3rd tier at best. Lol yeah i was a manny believer until last night we’ll never be back with him at the helm.
 
Scrape into the C Gap said:
Fool’s gold. We’ve played bad teams poorly. We know it by watching the games. If any numbers are trending positive it’s because of the weak *** schedule we’ve played. You can tell me we’re ranked 12th in the country until you’re blue in the face but we all know we’re most definitely NOT the 12th best team in the country.
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We're 5-1 solely because we've played horrible teams. And we were in dog fights with a couple with our on field play trending downward. LOL at quoting scoring and D stats as proof that this UM team is above-average.
 
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DMoney said:
Who are those second-tier teams? You’ve avoided the question for two weeks.



Miami and Notre Dame are both 3-0 against common opponents. Miami is +67 and Notre Dame is +62. And Notre Dame is 5th in the country.

We are flawed and vulnerable. But we haven’t been average by any objective measure. And if people are using the “eye test,” they should watch other teams besides Alabama and Clemson.
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Half of P5 wasn't playing until this week. Wisconsin would dog walk us. So would half the Big 10. Minnesota lost yesterday, but they're just as good or slightly better than we are. I judge teams by how they play, not by their record. Just because we've beaten some awful teams and are 5-1 doesn't mean we're above-average; it just means we're a little better than the terrible teams we're struggling with.

Let's see how we look when we play the other average to slightly above-average teams left on our schedule. We are death struggling with really bad teams, so that makes us average in my eyes. Go beat VT and UNC, and I'll revisit my opinion on where we are. Smart people are open to adjusting their opinions based on changing facts.
 
AUcane said:
If you're still asking that question mid way through the year, you're more than likely the latter.jmo

I think most of us knows what a top 10 team looks like. This is not it.
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We're not even a top 10 team if the Big Pvssy and PacFudge aren't playing. Once they are rolling, we are even lower in comparison.
 
The Franchise said:
We're 5-1 solely because we've played horrible teams. And we were in dog fights with a couple with our on field play trending downward. LOL at quoting scoring and D stats as proof that this UM team is above-average.
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UM is that fighter who has a great looking record, but has only fought tomato cans and D-level competition. Yeah, record looks sparkling, but you upon further inspection you find out he's VERY protected by the managers and mathmakers

This isnt' a young Teofimo Lopez after 6 fights(where you knew this kid was going places, and fast)
 
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