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Just sayin'...
It's a "conference" game. The Irish play USC, Stanford and Navy plus 5 ACC teams every year. Essentially, that's the conference schedule.
Part of liking ND is liking tradition----
Now about recruiting a real quarterback.
Clemson, NC, BC, Syracuse and………
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the loss is Marshall like. The injury factor is also there which makes it a clear football negative.
On the other hand the powers that be at ND won’t cancel it because they consider it a debt of honor. It is one of the things that separates ND from the pack.
And then re-opened following the war.
I've never been sold that the Navy saved ND.
Personally I would end it.
I respect their position though not really knowing the back story all that well to dispute it.
....this goes back to the Faust/Holtz era (namely FSU '93) losing to a subpar BC team. I hope/trust MF changes the " let down narrative" that we've heard for the past 40 yrs. after wins like last Saturday.
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My guess is that every "accidental cut block" Saturday by Navy will get called and someone will be injured. I pray not.
Only interior OL can be cut block now, I believe.
Below the waist blocking is forbidden once you're outside of the tackle box.
That still doesn't stop them from their diving at your knees or ankles within the tackle box, or worse yet, having one blocker hold up the defender, while the other one dives low at his knees, making an impact a tenth of a second after the first blocker releases. That's still technically a cut block, and I can guarantee you'll see a lot of this from Navy this year.
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A clean cut block is where the blocker aims his shoulders at the defender's hips or even upper thigh, in a one on one blocking engagement. While this produces some bumps and bruises, it's still a valid and safe way of blocking. Those San Francisco 49'ers teams that won all of those Super Bowls in 80's and 90's used this kind of clean cut blocking under line coach Bobb McKittrick (one of the best in the business, I'd say).
The issue I have with Navy and Air Force, is that they weasel their way around to the maximum extent. They have no issues diving at someone's knees or ankles, and the asserting that it's a cut block because it had been a one on one block. They'll also chop block regularly, but the first blocker will release literally a tenth of a second before the second blocker hammers dives at the ankles or knees.
In the 1991 game against Air Force, an Air Force lineman dove right at Eric Jones' ankle, and almost severed his foot from his leg. The only thing holding his foot was his skin, since there was a catastrophic breaking of the ankle, many ligaments and tendons snapped, etc. During that same game, another Air Force lineman dove at Bryant Young's knee, which sprained it significantly to the point where he was out for a while, and maybe at 50% for the rest of the year. That really hurt us against Tennessee (yes, that big comeback game for them), since we were missing our two best defensive linemen.
2014 was an absolute disaster. Joe Schmidt was being engaged by a Navy lineman, while the Navy fullback dove at his knees. The lineman released from Schmidt less than a half second before the fullback made his impact of Schmidt's knee, and we lost him for the rest of the year. The Navy people were saying that because there was nobody technically engaging Schmidt when the fullback dove at his knee, that it was a cut block and not a chop block... There were a couple other guys who were also gimped after that game.
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Niumatalolo will use whatever dirty trick in the book is available to him, and some that aren't in the book (my example of turning a chop block into an ever so borderline technically cut block), and quite frankly, doesn't give a hoot about who gets injured.
The only reason why he doesn't get nearly as much flak as he deserves, is because it's the Naval Academy.
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Agree. I'm a vet. My dad was in the Navy in WW2. I don't feel they need this. If anything rotate the the 3 academies
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We lost 3 guys due to dirty cut blocks and even chop blocks.
Kona Schwenke, Ishaq Williams, and Sheldon Day were all badly gimped.
There were more, but those are the two off the top of my head that really stick out.
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