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Today in opponent attrition: Irish - washingtonismoney - 11-21-2013
Star defensive tackle/actual hypergiant star Louis Nix is out for the season, which significantly reduces the bite of the N.D. defense: https://twitter.com/BFeldmanCBS/status/403659536784846848
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - stupac2 - 11-21-2013
Nix was the reason Te'o looked so good last year. If he's out, it's a brobdingnagian, brobdingnagian blow to their DL.
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - Treebound - 11-21-2013
Nah, Te'o looked good because of his "girlfriend."Â Â Behind every successful Domer stands a fake, dead girlfriend!
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - PrinceLightfoot - 11-28-2013
This is not yet confirmed.
Quote:Shumate and Hardy are out for Stanford due to violating team rules.....
http://www.domerdomain.com/forum/showthread.php?p=545065
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - Hurlburt88 - 11-29-2013
Interesting to see this referred to as the "biggest game of the year" in the thread. This is a team in search of a rival. Really strange given their long history. Also one of the penalties of being "independent" versus in a conference.Â
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - stupac2 - 11-29-2013
(11-29-2013, 06:52 AM)hurlburt88 link Wrote:Interesting to see this referred to as the "biggest game of the year" in the thread. This is a team in search of a rival. Really strange given their long history. Also one of the penalties of being "independent" versus in a conference.
That's what happens when you jettison traditional rivalries for more lucrative ones elsewhere. Though you'd think that they'd pick SC before us...
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - jayasena - 11-29-2013
(11-29-2013, 06:52 AM)hurlburt88 link Wrote:Interesting to see this referred to as the "biggest game of the year" in the thread. This is a team in search of a rival. Really strange given their long history. Also one of the penalties of being "independent" versus in a conference.
Well, we are their "aspirational peer" :)
To be fair, that comment is likely a reference to the fact that we are the highest ranked team on their schedule this year. Much like how Oregon was for us. From a pure football rivalry perspective, I'm guessing most Domers would probably pick SC or Michigan before us.
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - yvonne - 11-29-2013
They've jettisoned the series with Michigan.
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - JohnR34231 - 11-29-2013
Reading NDNation.com, the faithful concede they may lose this game, but they think that Stanford's years of glory are about to fade into the sunset.
Where have we heard this before?
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - terry - 11-29-2013
(11-29-2013, 10:48 AM)JPRI link Wrote:Reading NDNation.com, the faithful concede they may lose this game, but they think that Stanford's years of glory are about to fade into the sunset.
Where have we heard this before?
We heard it when Toby left, when Harbaugh left, when Luck left. . . .
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - terry - 11-29-2013
(11-28-2013, 10:49 PM)PrinceLightfoot link Wrote:This is not yet confirmed.
Quote:Shumate and Hardy are out for Stanford due to violating team rules.....
http://www.domerdomain.com/forum/showthread.php?p=545065
Has this been confirmed, or is it just message board chatter?
How significant would this be? Are they starters? Does ND have adequate depth without them?
Well, if anyone would know about a decline... - Redrum - 11-29-2013
...the Irish be it. I mean, the calls to fire Kelly have only gotten louder since he was hired.  Their last nat. championship was 25 years ago. (And ours? 74-ish).
Re: Today in opponent attrition: Irish - washingtonismoney - 11-29-2013
(11-29-2013, 11:34 AM)terry link Wrote:Has this been confirmed, or is it just message board chatter?
How significant would this be? Are they starters? Does ND have adequate depth without them?
Hasn't been confirmed, but one of the fan site beat writers thinks there might be something to it. EDIT: Confirmed: https://twitter.com/NDatRivals/status/406498993259036672
The two-deep N.D. released has the two as co-starters at safety, though the consensus among Irish fans is that the position's been some sort of all-purpose cluster this year.
The basis for ND Nation's long-term SU decline prediction - Redrum - 11-29-2013
I, too, read that thread. True, as Terry writes, they have predicted this a few times before,: Toby departure, Harbaugh departure, Luck departure...
For once, though, I think the wheel of fortune is turning their way. This time the graduation of 5th year seniors, regular senior starters and key reserves will take a trainload of experience out the door, notably on defense. The only question is whether our recent recruiting still has and will identify true talent regardless of star-ratings.
Does Shittu mature fast enough (or at all) to be a credible replacement for Murphy? If we squint when we look at Martinez, does he look like the next Skov @ MLB?  A drop in our record in 2014 is not a hard prediction to make. The Domers think that will be enough to destroy our recruiting momentum. The real test will be 2015. The last of our great wave of defense recruits will be gone, and maybe Peat, Garnett, Murphy and others off the OL. By then, will Nwafor, Lohn and Kaumatele be championship caliber DL? Of course, we and the Domers can't know the results either way, but this might be their best high-percentage bet...such as it is.