Notre Dame 35, Purwho 21

By Sir John

This is the day we all take stock of yesterdays game. That's after checking the other boards to see what's going on with other posters then hitting Google and Yahoo, It's a glut of information that's overwhelming. ND Nation had 43 news items alone although some are duplicates.

As I do this article it's almost noon and soon Moses will come down from the Mount and give us the 10 commandments in his Presser. A written transcript Presser should be out after 5PM.

Somehow, you have to take what YOU saw in the game played, all the various other opinions from places or people mentioned above then the official word and arrive at your own conclusions after analysis.

First of all I missed all of the first quarter and into 3 minutes of the second so missed some due to a situation my oldest daughter is in. As well, in what I did see later was distracted by same. All this while watching the game, glancing at the roster of players on my computer and juggling a quick game day post here.

It's one of those situations where "You never bother Daddy when he's on the toilet or watching a Notre Dame game unless it's an emergency." Those with kids understand this.
I used to say "Don't bother Daddy if he's on the toilet but you can if the Ty led team is in the toilet. Sorry to go potty mouth.

Today we can forget Purdue and go the Stanford game. This will be the last game of Weis (Split the season) and chances are we can get to 5-1.

We have a bye week coming up after the Stanford game. No game is scheduled for October 14th. This will mean a chance for the guys to rest any dings they have gotten and for the Coaches to install some tweaks and new schemes in preparation for UCLA and other opponents. As well eyeball the players and of course send the maximum Coaches the Magnificent Seven Coaches on the road to continue our recruiting success.


My main concerns today are to track down as many FRESH newbies we may have used in the game. I won't go into what others term the soft part of our schedule. We seemed to have used some new guys in the Purdue game. Now that the first 4 tough teams are out of the way it is imperative we have as many newbies play as is possible. Coach Tiller seemed proud of his Purdue team and termed them "Young Guys."

Come 2007 our veterans leave and our Trench fighters melt like a glacier from global warming. We seem to be OK in those skilled positions. Fans drool that Clausen is coming to save the day but I want to know who saves him from getting sacked on his butt? Meaningful time so that we can say as Tiller did, we are young but have a lot of experience and playing time.

Translation? I expect the grumbles over Minter, especially to continue. Were just going to have to insert some underclassmen for playing time and let them get burned as long as we are ahead. If not kiss even a so-so 2007 away.