1. Jabbadoody 5
2. Oinker
3. Jorts
4. Crazydave
5. McIrish
6. HipND
7. Clements2
8. TakethetrainKnute
9. TontoGoldstein
10. Und67
Others receiving votes: Dan Brown, Goat, ShowMeIrish , Colorado Irish
I will never be a top poster unless i get better coaching.
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I am a charter member here!
Sorry sir but you are definitely not a charter member on the hoopty. You have only posted once in the last five weeks.
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I wouldn't consider him an honorable mention on the footy though.
I feel a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
You make it out like I'm having a heart attack every Saturday. My frustration today stems with the fact that you called me a hypocrite without any logical explanation. And it's not so much that you called me a hypocrite, it's that you either a) can't admit that you were being a jackass or B) you are too dumb to figure out why you were being a jackass. You should be better than seascape and you aren't right now. I'll lower my expectations for you before I lower them for the Irish.
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Perhaps you are having problems with my definition of "expect." I thought (predicted) that we would get beat up by USC.
I expect that our 3 and 4 year offensive line starters can handle a 3 man rush.
I expect that we don't miss tackle after tackle after tackle.
I expect that either our players or our scheme is good enough to keep a true freshman from looking like Joe Montana.
I expect that we would use all of our timeouts instead of running out of time.
I expect all of our defensive players to run to the ball.
I expect that CW would put the ball in the hands of his best players with the game on the line (rather than a 4th string WR).
I expect that CW wouldn't completely abandon a run game that was working, turning us into a one-dimensional football team.
I would expect that with 3 scholarship kickers on the team, that one of them could be trusted to kick a 43 yard FG.
We failed to meet all of these expectations. You mentioned earlier that I should watch the games. Well, I happened to watch this one and I saw a lot of problems that I think it is fair to be critical of. The fact that my score prediction didn't match the actual game score is irrelevant.
and to get an occasional BJ but neither of those things happen either. I've learned to live with disappointment.
Now you'll have to excuse me, my wife just finished the Pork Chops.
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Pork chops means vagina
...and also pork chops.
we'll all get a taste of your wife's pork chops?
Neither definition.
But she's already agreed and we drew numbers. Oinker gets her first. I'm going to refrain from making a joke about sloppy seconds because it would be too easy.
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in a football game. At some point, as an offensive lineman, how do you not get pissed off and start cut blocking just to take out the other guy's knees? Do something. I don't care how big and how strong and how fast the other guy is, it has to become a matter of pride. It was 5 on 3. I didn't even see any fire from the OL when that was happening. Disgusting.
Though the USC D Line had visited your wife.....
(Can't believe nobody else said this!)
I LOVE Hoopty!
I'm all for a good wife joke, but it has to make sense.
Elevate your game Ch.
Love, J.
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These are the points I've been making all day and you haven't addressed a single piece of it. Your only response is that our players aren't at USC's level, but you are unwilling to attribute any of that to lack of development or poor recruiting.
and you threw a double-digit rebuttal back. I don't have time nor do I want to go through disect it. Is it too difficult to gimme an answer like: "I wanted ND to be competitive into the fourth quarter" or "I expected ND to get beat by 20+ or 30+."
I called you a hypocrite because you predicted ND would lose by 20. They played much closer. You are correct expectations and predictions can be different, but they can also be the same. ND isn't at the elite level, they weren't expected to beat USC -- yet many posters acted as though we were. And bitch and whine like fucking babies about it. Thus the hypocrite term. If that doesn't apply to you, then my apologies.
I expect all of our defensive players to run to the ball.
-- Pursuing the ball isn't about talent. It's about hard work.
because John Ryan may have a problem meeting your criteria.
Go back and watch the tape. You'll see guys on the back side, jogging instead of sprinting when the ball goes the other way. One reason missed tackles hurt us so much is because we only have one man going to the ball at one time. If you watch the Broncos, this is one of the biggest changes I have seen. Even if one player can't bring the guy down, there are enough guys around that they can gang tackle. This just doesn't happen at ND right now. Hayseed missed tackles all day on Saturday, but he slowed the guys down, and if people would have been running to the ball the way they should have been, that 501 total yards of offense would have been decreased.
there are some elements that can be attributed to coaching such as poor tackling. But we also don't have the horses it takes to be elite.
If what you say is true, then we've been engaging in a really stupid, pointless exercise for awhile. And note, I'm not saying your premise is incorrect.
Remaining an Independent is truly dumb if your premise is correct.
is still alive. Once the fanbase loses hope, the NBC fanbase may follow and then the NBC deal goes belly up. Which would then force our hand to join a conference and enter the bowels of conference mediocrity.
How many years will fans hold out hope? I don't know.
Why not join a mediocre conference where we can get nine wins per year?
It still has the NBC contract.
and a few others... GOAT, Billybaroo, IrishMike and SubwayTom, Toledo56 and a few others...
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his self imposed suspension from the Hoopty.....he'll rebound with a solid performance this week.