By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, september 23, 2023 at 7:44:00 p.m. edt
Notre Dame has another black football coach—I root against you now.
When I was growing up in the early ‘70s, the Chicago Bears were my favorite team in pro football, the Bulls in the NBA, and the White Sox in baseball, though I was born in Michigan. My college team was Notre Dame in both football and basketball, though UCLA was absolutely a legendary ncaa team that I also followed. Theisman, Montana were the qbs I admired, and when Notre Dame broke UCLA’s 88-game winning streak, it was a memorable piece of tv viewing--I loved watching sports as a kid.
I believe Lindsey Nelson and Paul Hornung called football games on the mutual broadcasting radio network (a guess)—a great broadcast team.
I've always checked out what kind of team N.D. was like every year, though my fervency lessened, as I got older. This year, it ended. Notre Dame has a black football coach—AGAIN.
Back when Tyrone Willingham became the first black coach in 2002, I wasn’t paying much attention, but then in 2013, Brian Kelly, a local Grand Valley boy made good, worked his way to the job of Notre Dame’s head football coach, and I was interested again. Last year, Kelly quit to coach LSU, and Notre Dame decided to hire another negro coach—I didn’t even realize it until tonight.
Marcus Freeman is his name—and he doesn’t look a bit Irish to me. They play Ohio State this evening and, for the first time ever, I’m rooting for the “‘Irish’ negroes” to lose.
--GRA
OSU 17 ND 14 FINAL
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, september 23, 2023 at 10:55 p.m. edt
OSU 17 ND 14 FINAL
I haven’t watched a complete college game in years. It was good to see two White, dropback quarterbacks play against each other. It was almost like the old days—and the best part—the blackie LOST.
Excellent.
--GRA
I hate to break it to GRA, but Notre Dame hasn't been "Notre Dame" for quite some time now: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/university-of-notre-dame-now-selling-lgbt-childrens-books-tarot-cards-at-school-store/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa Also, the REAL Notre Dame in Paris was destroyed by arson a few years ago... and nobody really seemed to give a Damn, certainly not over there. Except Quasimodo, one supposes. -RM
ReplyDelete(yahoo)Trayanum's(winning TD) run came on the left side of the offensive line and at an area of the Notre Dame defense that was exposed. Notre Dame had just 10 players on the field for Ohio State's game-winning score. And based on the way the team was aligned before the snap, that missing player could have been assigned to that area of the line of scrimmage.
ReplyDeleteGRA:Coaching.Fire the black coach.
--GRA
ReplyDeletebLACK NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL COACH TRIES TO "bLACKTALK" HIS WAY OUT OF RESPONSIBILTY FOR CRUCIAL COACHING MISTAKE AT THE END OF THE GAME.
(espn)SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said he was trying to get a fourth defensive lineman on the field for the final play of the game in Saturday night's 17-14 loss to Ohio State, but didn't want to draw a penalty, so he stuck with 10 defenders on the play that allowed the winning touchdown.
Trailing 14-10, Ohio State had the ball on the one-yard line on third down, when Chip Trayanum ran up the middle and scored the winner with one second remaining. Freeman, a former linebacker, was asked after the game if he should have taken the penalty and tried to get the 11th defender onto the field.
"To me it was like, 'Hey, don't give them another opportunity to get settled and to try to make a different call,' right?" said Freeman, who didn't have any timeouts remaining. "Hey, guys, stay off the field. Let's not give them a freebie from the half-yard line and let's try to stop them.
"And I thought maybe they would do the same thing they did the snap before, and then they ended up running the ball," he said. "So I got to watch the play and see where the ball hit. But, yeah, that's why that I made that decision."
Notre Dame's short-handed defense was spotted by many when the officiating crew reviewed the winning touchdown.
"Everything was going fast. I'm trying to do my job, get the call," safety Thomas Harper said. "That's something we've got to do better. We can't be down in that situation. We've got to do better, players and coaches. We're going to learn from it and grow."
GRA:It's better to learn while you win.You take the penalty on the half yard line and get the 11th guy on the field.Maybe OSU even has a procedure penalty on the ensuing play,but Freeman's explanation is ridiculous--play 10 on 11.
I call it ,"blacktalk".
--GRA
The Fighting Irish. Nick Buoniconti and Walt Patulski.
ReplyDeleteFighting Irish refers to two drunks in a bar [not necessarily Irish] taking swings at one another in a bar and neither man landing a punch, both men are so inebriated.