Tag: Wake Forest

Finally, finally a game we could just relax and enjoy a beat down. Cierre Wood 11 carries for 150 yards including a 68 yard TD run in first series–is it me? I thought Wood was faster than he seemed. This game ended on Wakes 1st series when Carlo Calabrese absolutely crushed a RB who caught a pass over the middle, pursued by Manti and then wham– fumble which led to the 2nd score.

Eifert was just terrific as was TJ Jones and John Goodman. Eifert now # 1 in catches by a ND Tight End.

Wow, Golson has some arm and he seems effortlessly elusive–he ended up with 346 yds passing 3 TD’s and 1 pick. ND’s total yards 584–209.

Defense just smothered Wake, Tuitt sack leaves him just 1 behind Justin Tuck. Great win on Senior Day.

Other news:

• Baylor 52 Kansas State 24
• Stanford 17 Oregon 14 in overtime
• UCLA 38 USC 28 and Barkley hurt.

Drumbeat already in gear to push ND out of Championship game even if they beat a Barkley less USC in less than a rout.

Really wanted to see a ND KSU Championship Game.

Charlie Weis has just got to be mighty proud of this senior class.
Wonder what Aaron Lynch is thinking now.

On to USC–won’t be an easy game and watch what the refs do in this game. Regardless of the QB for USC, Notre Dame has just got to put enormous pressure on him–multiple sacks.

Finally F–K the SEC and ESPN reporters.

Here’s some clips from und.com—enjoy.

Last home game of the 2012 season and the final seniors recruited by Charlie Weis. Funny how things work out–these guys are 10-0 and looking for 11-0 against Wake.

Everyone knew what you were getting in 5 star super recruit Manti Te’o but no one knew how terrific 3 star Tyler Eifert would be in the 2009 recruiting class–listed then at 6’5″ 225. But then again no worries since we had Rudolph and Joseph Fauria from the 2008 class. Then Eifert had back surgery and lots of concern he would never play football again. Rudolph left early for the Pros and Fauria left for UCLA. Funnier yet Eifert and Fauria both up for the Mackey Award for best Tight End.

I think you could even debate whether Eifert or Te’o is the MVP on today’s team. Both should go in the first round in April. Really going to miss both.

What the hell has Diaco been doing with this defense–we should be obliterating QB’s with the front seven we have. This bend but don’t break defense almost cost us the Pitt game–oh it’s ok we will stop them when they get to our 20 or just give them a FG–good thinking?? manageable FG missed by Pitt almost made us 9-1. Both Pitt and BC missed a lot of opportunities with receivers wide open. Better start to prep for USC this Saturday by turning these guys loose in first half and then be able to rest them.

Let’s forget about the long drives and play the 2 minute drill the whole first half–let’s score 30 by half time and coast thru the 2nd half but tack on another 20 points. Do I think that will happen–No!!

I think ND will fiddle around and have to go into the 4th quarter to pull out a win. If that happens Bama could jump ND in the polls.

Here’s hoping:

ND 30 Wake 10

Senior day and Notre Dame usually comes out and falls flat on their faces, I think we’ll see the same thing this Saturday. This game is their opportunity to prove they belong at #3 and they better take Wake to the shed big time or the the voters (who all hate ND) will push #4 Alabama ahead of them.

So we need vast improvement over the piss poor offense we’ve seen in the last 2 games against really lousy teams.

Wake is another really lousy team at 5-5 — brief recap what they’ve been doing:

• Lost to Florida State 52-0
• Lost to Clemson 42-13
• Lost to NC State 37-6 last week

I don’t care what anyone else thinks– our OL is just not that good on a consistent basis and if they had to go against the Bama DL I doubt we would have 50 rushing yards. So can Hiestand do anything with them–I really hope so.

We don’t need a squeaker we need a blow out–see the above losses. Anything else puts their #3 spot in jeopardy. For the offense’s moral they need a big output before heading to USC. They need 50 to silence the haters and SEC voters.