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| BoilerVision | Sep 4 2009, 05:21 PM Post #121 |
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Your question was already answered. See 1998 Purdue team. 8-4, with a top 5 win, and younger than the '07 Gomers. |
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| hoosierinhogville | Sep 4 2009, 05:24 PM Post #122 |
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Had you been drinking at the game? ND out-gained Purdue in the game, TOP was similar, they were only down a touchdown with 7 minutes to go, and Evan Sharpley trew an INT in the end zone with about 2 minutes left after driving down the field to try to bring it back within a touchdown. I would say that is competitive. |
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| hoosierinhogville | Sep 4 2009, 05:27 PM Post #123 |
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I guess i didn't address this last night. According to a depth chart i say 9 out of 11 starters on defense on that team were upperclassmen, and about half the starters on d-fense where. I believe is was something like 15 out of 22 starters were upperclassmen. That isn't exactly as young as ND in 07. ANd that doesn't really answer the question anyway. Would you have expected a team as young as they supposedly were to have went 8-4? Considering the pessimism surrounding this year, i doubt it. |
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| BoilerBasketball2008 | Sep 4 2009, 05:38 PM Post #124 |
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So for leadership you need more than 4 or 5 seniors STARTING the majority of games. Gotcha. |
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| hoosierinhogville | Sep 4 2009, 05:50 PM Post #125 |
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No but it sure helps. Way to completely disregard the rest of the facts presented though. I guess i can understand that as they clearly show a team dominated by its underclassmen - a fact you don't seem to want to admit. That's cool - i can see avoidance seems to be your M.O. |
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| BoilerBasketball2008 | Sep 4 2009, 05:59 PM Post #126 |
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The had a majority of STARTERS that were younger, fine. But they had plenty of leadership on the team, and those underclassmen apparantly won the starting jobs, and they were who Weis recruited. And if you still think 3-9 was ok, you've admitted that 6-6 is pretty pathetic when ur first top-10 class are juniors, so i fail to see why you defend that fat fuck. |
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| hoosierinhogville | Sep 4 2009, 06:49 PM Post #127 |
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Are you just skimming my posts? I have said at least 3 times on this thread alone that 3-9 wasn't ok, and that they should have won more games. My point -once again - is that while it is clear that they underachieved in 2007, i don't think they underachieved to the level that all of you Purdue posters seem to think they did. And i defend Weis because i think he gets a raw deal simply because of who he his and where he coaches. I have said it before and i will say it again, he is a mediocre coach until he proves otherwise. But mediocre is all he is. In 4 seasons as a head coach he is 29-21 with 3 bowl appearences and 1 bowl win. I would hardly say that makes him a terrible coach. And while he came off as arrogant in his first couple of years at ND, off the field, from everything i have read and saw he is a genuinely good guy who cares deeply about his family and players. SO i don't really see where he deserves the amount of ridicule he receives. |
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| BoilerBasketball2008 | Sep 4 2009, 06:53 PM Post #128 |
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What level of underachieving do you think the did......having 3 wins and getting blown out in every game except one. and the three wins were against the bottom feeders of the world. what level of underachievment is that? |
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| eelbor | Sep 4 2009, 06:58 PM Post #129 |
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Well, if it helps the conversation the billboard has been taken down. |
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| BoilerVision | Sep 4 2009, 07:29 PM Post #130 |
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Not surprising. According to Gomer officials, 9-15 never actually happened. |
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| BoilerVision | Sep 4 2009, 07:39 PM Post #131 |
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Maybe not 8-4, but at least .500, with maybe one or two blowout losses to be allowed. And if they lost nine games with six or seven of those losses being complete massacres, Burke would very likely have been looking for a replacement. The pessimism around this year's team involves the following things: 1) Team consists of leftovers from a 4-8 team. 2) Unproven head coach in his first season. It's completely unrealistic that you are trying to (halfway) justify Weis' failure by comparing it to Purdue's current situation. When Hope's own recruits become sophomores, we will expect Purdue to compete. |
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| BoilerBasketball2008 | Sep 5 2009, 02:38 AM Post #132 |
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Weren't the irish down 20-something to zip at the half? Purdue slept walked thru the second half and it still wasn't close at the end 33-19 is a full 2 TDs, sir After the game they flew the moral victory banner, we're 0-5 but we "won" the seconf half against Purdue. |
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| mongo | Sep 5 2009, 09:21 AM Post #133 |
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I saw Holtz talk about it again the other day. I don't think he's being serious, he was laughing while he said it and so were the other analysts. Its still pretty lame. |
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| brumdog44 | Sep 5 2009, 11:31 AM Post #134 |
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So, Hoosier, did you ever stop to consider why the Irish were that young? Seems like if Weis could develop players, they wouldn't have been. It says something when a bulk of high school players can come in and play over guys you've had to work with for two or three years. |
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| irishfan711722 | Sep 6 2009, 09:43 AM Post #135 |
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lol @ by far the largest thread is about ND |
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