So ND plays Clemson this Weekend...

Akinji07 said:
I would say maybe they stole our signs but that's just CPJ yelling instructions into a kid's ear and throwing him onto the field. Maybe they bugged CPJ?
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Of all I have gleaned from the various boards, media, etc, they invested a lot into beating us:
- dedicated a coach to scheming exclusively against our offense (not necessarily an issue, just a resource.. No complaint here)
- speakers on the sidelines (innocuous in and of itself, but if they are used after the teams have lined up, make audibles difficult if not impossible)
- Play clock visibility??? (Brandon and Sean both noticed this)

In all this amounts to an already talented team coached well winning at home by one score against a lesser ranked team that previously scored at will, had no significant "bunching" of errors, that suddenly couldn't block their way out of a wet paper bag... It just doesn't all add up to me.


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gespacho_the_slender said:
Of all I have gleaned from the various boards, media, etc, they invested a lot into beating us:
- dedicated a coach to scheming exclusively against our offense (not necessarily an issue, just a resource.. No complaint here)
- speakers on the sidelines (innocuous in and of itself, but if they are used after the teams have lined up, make audibles difficult if not impossible)
- Play clock visibility??? (Brandon and Sean both noticed this)

In all this amounts to an already talented team coached well winning at home by one score against a lesser ranked team that previously scored at will, had no significant "bunching" of errors, that suddenly couldn't block their way out of a wet paper bag... It just doesn't all add up to me.


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I'm going to pepper their entire sideline with fish next time they come here. You've made me really mad against them. I will also make sure to wake up them up every half hour by playing air horns and sirens by their hotel.
 
gespacho_the_slender said:
Of all I have gleaned from the various boards, media, etc, they invested a lot into beating us:
- dedicated a coach to scheming exclusively against our offense (not necessarily an issue, just a resource.. No complaint here)
- speakers on the sidelines (innocuous in and of itself, but if they are used after the teams have lined up, make audibles difficult if not impossible)
- Play clock visibility??? (Brandon and Sean both noticed this)

In all this amounts to an already talented team coached well winning at home by one score against a lesser ranked team that previously scored at will, had no significant "bunching" of errors, that suddenly couldn't block their way out of a wet paper bag... It just doesn't all add up to me.


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I mean I see the discrepancy from where we were last year during the orange and where we have been this season and it sucks. I'm not sure why we aren't playing better but I don't think it's any of the above. We also played like öööö against Tulane at home. Tulane is just a bad team so it didn't matter.
 
TheTaxJacket said:
If ND beats Clemson convincingly then what's everyone think? ND I would think is pretty for real. Crazy at how many injuries they have and seem to just plug and play still. Regardless I'm interested in this game.

Doesn't take away the fact that our offense just didn't show up to well, but I will be interested in the physicality of ND vs. Clemson in this one.

What's everyone else think about this match up transitive principal aside?

Edit: I guess it's a few weeks until they play. My bad.
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I will be surprised if Clemson's young OL will be able to win in the trenches against ND front 7. I was impressed with how they dominated our experienced OL...and we have a very solid OL. I will say 27-14 ND but I am not a good prognosticator. I had us scoring 34 on ND.
 
gespacho_the_slender said:
- Play clock visibility??? (Brandon and Sean both noticed this)
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Doubt our guys had trouble finding the play clock, even if some others did. We may have burned timeouts, but don't think we had any delay of game penalties. If they couldn't find the clock we would have had more penalties but not burned all those TOs.
 
Can't wait to see Ohio State play Michigan State this weekend. Game of the year!!!
 
I have a really hard time reconciling ND-UVA and ND-GT games. UVA is really bad. They beat William and Mary this weekend by 6 points. My hunch is ND is legit and just had an off day against UVA.

Given that I think ND rolls Clemson who IMO is vastly over-rated and in complete rebuilding mode this year.
 
ConyersJacket said:
I have a really hard time reconciling ND-UVA and ND-GT games. UVA is really bad. They beat William and Mary this weekend by 6 points. My hunch is ND is legit and just had an off day against UVA.

Given that I think ND rolls Clemson who IMO is vastly over-rated and in complete rebuilding mode this year.
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ND was prepping for us post-Texas. Simple as that. UVA was a classic trap game for them and they almost got caught looking ahead.
 
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