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Champ sports bowl first half

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXShUU4yWLU&feature=youtu.be

Champ sports bowl second half

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeTBrolaaGM&feature=youtu.be

Champ Sports bowl Notre Dame Defense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZYmJlcuQg&feature=youtu.be

Champ Sports bowl Notre Dame offense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6b2K8rPqo&feature=youtu.be

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More great news from the world of law enforcement and Notre Dame Football. I'm assumining this means we get to have another multi hundred comment discussion on the drinking culture of college campuses. Just great.

Chicago Tribune Link Here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-notre-dame-wr-daniels-cited-for-underage-drinking-20120516,0,2531142.story

Daniels was one of 29 individuals cited at an address that matches his own. Police said they were responding to a call for an ambulance when "all subjects were found to be participating in an underage party and had consumed alcohol while under the age of 21."

With such a tough schedule this year, there are a couple of things we need to happen in order to have a good season.

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First off, I would like to clarify one thing: I am not sleeping on EG. In fact, I am not doing anything close to that. I believe Everett Golson has a fantastic chance to win the starting job in the fall. However, the point I will be trying to make is that he should be forced to unseat Andrew Hendrix, who in my opinion, is the best option at this point in time.

More on this, after the jump.

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Okay. Well, in continuing this glorious series that whiskeyOFD started with Virginia Tech, I volunteered to do a profile piece on Michigan Stadium.

First, a little background. I’m currently stranded in California, but for a while I lived in the state of Michigan, and I’m very familiar with the Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, and Detroit areas. I even had the honor of attending a few Michigan games at the Big House—both before and after the stadium renovations. Of course this was probably more because my mom and brother are both pretty hardcore Michigan fans, while my dad is a USC alum.

This is generally my impression of the few visits I had to the Big House.

More after the jump...

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I'm trying to decide on what posters to get for my dorm room next year. Does anyone have in mind an iconic ND Football scene or poster that I could get? I don't want "Play Like a Champion Today" or any of the other cliché posters like that. If you can think of a great moment in ND Football that might have been made into a giant poster, let me know. Thanks peeps.

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I know we have some Cubs fans here, and everyone loves college football. I came across this awesome conspiracy theory from a West Virginia fan while reading reddit.com/r/cfb:

Follow along on a story I've told a couple times before at social gatherings and tailgates...

Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS was on October 14, 2003. We all know what happened, so I'm not going to recount the happenings that horrible night, nor the eventual Game 7 loss the next equally horrible night.

Since the Florida Marlins advanced to the World Series following the Cubs' collapse, they still needed use of their baseball field. At the time, they shared Sun Life Stadium with the Miami Dolphins (an arrangement fans of both teams felt was less than ideal. Because they still needed to use their baseball field, the dirt diamond had to remain for an extra week or two.

On October 19, 2003 the Miami Dolphins hosted the New England Patriots. Olindo Mare, the Dolphins' sure-footed (at that time) kicker, missed two game-winning kicks in the 4th quarter. Both kicks were missed because Mare slipped on the infield dirt of the Marlins' infield. New England went on to win the game in overtime. The Dolphins would end the season with a 10-6 record, missing the playoffs by one game.

The coach of the Dolphins at the time was Dave Wannstedt. Following the 2003 postseason, a second straight postseason without the Dolphins after not missing since 1996, some Dolphins left the team and the team was restructured. Pair that with a poor draft by Wannstedt and company, and 2004 started rough. With Miami's record an embarrassing 1-8, Dave Wannstedt left the team. Two months later, he became coach at Pitt.

In his third season at Pitt, Wannstedt took his team 75 miles south to play #2 West Virginia in the final game of the 2007 season. I'm not going to go into the painful detail here, but we all know Wannstedt pulled a rabbit out of his hat and somehow vaulted that 4-7 team to a victory that night. I've never heard 60k people more silent in my life. I don't think I spoke a word until I had gotten far from the stadium.

The loss knocked WVU out of the national title game, and knocked LSU in. LSU had been upset a week earlier by rival Arkansas, or they would've been in to begin with. The following week, WVU's head coach Rich Rodriguez left the program to coach at Michigan.nnLSU went on to win the national championship, in what would become the second of six straight (and current) for the SEC.

I (along with many others) believe if WVU had won that game against Pitt, Rich Rodriguez. What coach would leave right before coaching his alma mater in what could've been their first national title? If Rodriguez wouldn't have taken the job, many believe Michigan would've gotten Les Miles to take over. It would've been easier to pry him away after a disappointing loss against their rival and a "routine" Sugar Bowl appearance.

So, the national championship would've either gone to the Big East (WVU) or Big Ten (Ohio State) that night, and LSU may have been forced to reload their staff that offseason. SEC schools couldn't have used their" X-straight titles" angle for 2008 and forward. LSU has been involved in many important SEC games since then. Who knows how they might have turned out, and how that would've affected the end-of-season #1 and #2 from 2008 til now.

Admittedly, the biggest stretch of this story is whether or not missing the playoffs in 2003 caused the rough offseason which saw good players leave, and a 10-6 team start 1-8 and lose their coach (who never would've left in the middle of a good season). I believe it did.

Outside of Phil Steele I tend to find the National preview magazines to be less than impressive. Despite this it is May so we are on the cusp of preview season. Athlon beat everyone else to the punch and just published a handful of pieces on the 2012 version of our Fighting Irish. I figured that we might as well go ahead and take a look at what they had to say. If nothing else it will give us something else to chat about on a Wednesday.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2012 Team Preview

Notre Dame Fighting Irish Top 10 Players for 2012

Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2012 Team Predictions

The Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History

Will Brian Kelly Lead Notre Dame to a BCS Bowl?

Let's just be honest here, folks: It's May and we have no idea what is going to happen this college football season. This is a very, very rough guesstimate at how things will look at the end of the 2012 season - Matt Barkley and the SEC dominating, just to make me sad. Do you think any unranked teams could slide into the top 15, or there's a 2010 Auburn-like sleeper waiting to ascend to the top? Without Phil Steele, I'm lost in the wilderness, so any hunches or tips you have would be greatly appreciated.

One Foot Down Ballot - Week 18

Rank	Team	Delta
1	USC Trojans	1
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	2
3	LSU Tigers	-2
4	Georgia Bulldogs	-1
5	Oregon Ducks	2
6	Oklahoma Sooners	--
7	Arkansas Razorbacks	-2
8	South Carolina Gamecocks	--
9	West Virginia Mountaineers	1
10	Michigan Wolverines	2
11	Stanford Cardinal	6
12	Clemson Tigers	2
13	Florida St. Seminoles	-4
14	Wisconsin Badgers	2
15	Boise St. Broncos	6
16	TCU Horned Frogs	-3
17	Virginia Tech Hokies	1
18	Michigan St. Spartans	-7
19	Texas Longhorns	--
20	Ohio St. Buckeyes	-1
21	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	2
22	Kansas St. Wildcats	--
23	Nebraska Cornhuskers	-8
24	Florida Gators	-2
25	Louisville Cardinals	-5
Dropouts: BYU Cougars, Washington St. Cougars

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "

What Brian Kelly once lost sleep over . . .

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