NOW I AM MAD

IU is whether we like it or not

Not ND Gig - natty Freenan- nothing

Yeah IU beat everyone they needed to. Weird response to that game

Indy. 16-1 in their last 17 games.

irishff1014 said:

Not ND Gig - natty Freenan- nothing

Don't drive anywhere tonight.

JLRSR said:

WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO IS THE BEST TEAM!!!

Next season= Leave No Doubt

Indiana is undoubtedly. Shame I’d have love to be the 8-9 seed as we should have been and played them. Not saying we win or don’t. Just would have loved to see it. More than that bama rose bowl fiasco

@JLRSR = NIGHT SHIFT WORKER AT VINNIE’S FACTORY.

irishff1014 said:

Not ND Gig - natty Freenan- nothing

Gig and Freenan????? Dumbest post I have seen in a long time.

CVNDFAN said:

Don't drive anywhere tonight.

ajcgn said:

Indy. 16-1 in their last 17 games.

Who beat em?

irishff1014 said:

Not ND Gig - natty Freenan- nothing

irishff1014 said:

Not ND Gig - natty Freenan- nothing

I’m guessing you are one of those wonderfully upbeat posters that came from Irish Illustrated

IU won the national championship and we better recognize it and step up to the occasion next year. There won't be a recount and nobody will feel sorry for us. Time to cut out the mental mistakes and execute.

JLRSR said:

WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO IS THE BEST TEAM!!!

Valid point. When one of the best teams is left out of the tournament, an asterisk is automatically attached to the entire tournament and therefore the end result.

raycyrx said:

Valid point. When one of the best teams is left out of the tournament, an asterisk is automatically attached to the entire tournament and therefore the end result.

To me the asterisk is winning with such an overwhelming number of mercenaries. But that’s what college football allows. And it’s inescapable that IU earned and won the championship. That was one impressive team. Time to move on to our own campaign for next season.

JLRSR said:

WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO IS THE BEST TEAM!!!

Is there some sort of prize for the "best team"? The last team standing is the champion, and that's all that counts.

raycyrx said:

Valid point. When one of the best teams is left out of the tournament, an asterisk is automatically attached to the entire tournament and therefore the end result.

There is no way Alabama, Oklahoma, James Madison, or Tulane belonged in that playoff and everybody knows it. At least one of those spots should have been ND, and if the Fighting Irish team who mauled most of the last 10 teams on their schedule showed up for the playoff games, I think they might have beaten IU. When I watched the IU - Miami game, I kept thinking that if the Hoosiers thought Fletcher was tough to stop, they should have seen what a healthy Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price would have done to them. Let's let the folks from Bloomington enjoy the high point in their program's history. They've been gawdawful for most of their history, so it's good that they are finally among the best in the sport. Let's see if they can stay there awhile.

Notre Dame and all its fans need to move on . Notre Dame going forward needs to understand that each and every game is important and take nothing for granted. This season if you take anything from the season, a loss is a loss no matter when it occurs and no matter by how much. The one thing that has always irritated me with Notre Dame is they need to learn to show no mercy in blowout games. Notre Dame as an example allowed a really bad Stanford team who they dominated for 3 quarters change the story of that domination by allowing end of game scores. Those end of game scores changed the whole vision of the game. Now, as in the Syracuse game was concerned i believe Notre Dame could have scored 100 points. Wiithout Angelli, Syracuse was not good. Yet i think Notre Dame did right not to score 100 points. However, it made me mad against Pitt to score with 5 seconds to go. That kind of thing should not be allowed to happen. Margins of victories always come into the conversation. Great teams take no prisoners . As Marcus has said "Leave No Doubt" . They need to win all games and decisively going forward.

Jimbo32 said:

Notre Dame and all its fans need to move on . Notre Dame going forward needs to understand that each and every game is important and take nothing for granted. This season if you take anything from the season, a loss is a loss no matter when it occurs and no matter by how much. The one thing that has always irritated me with Notre Dame is they need to learn to show no mercy in blowout games. Notre Dame as an example allowed a really bad Stanford team who they dominated for 3 quarters change the story of that domination by allowing end of game scores. Those end of game scores changed the whole vision of the game. Now, as in the Syracuse game was concerned i believe Notre Dame could have scored 100 points. Wiithout Angelli, Syracuse was not good. Yet i think Notre Dame did right not to score 100 points. However, it made me mad against Pitt to score with 5 seconds to go. That kind of thing should not be allowed to happen. Margins of victories always come into the conversation. Great teams take no prisoners . As Marcus has said "Leave No Doubt" . They need to win all games and decisively going forward.

I think ND tried pretty hard to run up the score in every game especially as the season went on. The late Pitt score was cheap but Stanford, for instance, just played hard to the end and didn't give up. Not every team is going to lay down

Im fine calling IU national champions. Do I think ND got screwed out of the playoffs and had a legit chance of winning it all and beating IU? Yes. Do I think we give them the same fight as Miami if not better? Yes. However, they were 16-0 and deserve it. If Miami/Bama won I would be putting an * by it.

JLRSR said:

WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO IS THE BEST TEAM!!!

It's not that complicated. IU is crowned as National Champion and didn't lose a game. Beat OSU, Oregon twice, boatraced Bama, and the team that beat ND in the NCG.

mh2365 said:

IU is whether we like it or not

IU - 1st 3 games next year are North Texas, Howard and Western Kentucky - season tix holders are thrilled