Preview from Scout here.

Some musings from NDnation here.

and here.

And finally, a less than auspicious Irish season forecast from The Onion.

This season could be anything from a BCS appearance (the talent is definitely there) to, should Nevada pull off the upset tomorrow, something long and painful. Any resemblance to '07 or '08, now that talent is there and presumably mature, will result in a summary firing of the Fat One. Hoping it doesn't come to that but I'm being safe and preparing for it anyway.

Let's Go Irish!!!

Go Irish!

Let the trolling begin!

Irish are back (or it will be Charlie's last stand)

Notre Dame
12 4.46%
11 13.32%
10 20.02%
9 20.65%
8 16.59%
7 11.26%
6 6.88%
5 3.88%
4 1.93%
3 0.76%
2 0.21%
1 0.04%
0 0.00%

Notre Dame Football 2009: Charlie Weis' Last Stand

imo

Fingers guardedly crossed, I want to believe that this team has a lot of talent, but then I remember the Navy, Syracuse, and USC games. SDSU was a pretty decent barometer of the season last year, if we struggle against another WAC team to start the year, it could be a long season.

Do they fire Charlie Weiss when he comes to the BIG HOUSE and gets owned by 2 true freshman QBs?

GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR RRRRRRRRR

itt. imo.

yep....this is pretty much exactly whats gonna happen

maybe another 38-0

I'm stoked! This team definitely has the talent to win this year. Not NC talent but with their team returning most everyone from last year and a couple of highly rated recruits if they don't win at LEAST nine games with this schedule Ol' tummy tuck Weis should and will be fired. All that being said i think they could struggle tomorrow against Nevada. Imo, Kaepernick, Taua and Lippincott are the real deal and should put points on the board. Nevada's defense is terrible but ND has not been exactly a juggernaut on offense in years.

All in all if this team doesn't win it will be coaching,imo and as much as I loved Charlie early on, he must go. With the weapons they have on offense, the offensive genius should be able to score some points this year. peace and Go Irish!

I don't think of it as trolling. Am I unfair? Yes. Do I throw out some chum? Of course. But I think I have something to say on occasion, and I think I have a place in an ND thread.

Anyway. I think the Nevada game (and each of the first three) is huge. I don't think Nevada is a pushover even though ND ought to be better at every position.

The Irish don't need to dominate, but they need to win. If they are lackluster in victory it will hurt Weiss, but not kill him.

I'm surprised that the center of mass on the win-shares is so high. Easy schedule or not, I think some injuries could break their dicks.

I blame Ty Willingham.

Signing up for another season of pain and disappointment.

I set the O / U on the number of times this pic is reposted in this thread at 7.

I set the O / U on Irish wins this season at 7.

I really like your posts shemp. I think they are often well presented and rational.

This was posted in the '08 thread (perhaps the poster missed this new one), and was a nice forecast so I'm copying it over here.

I'm sure to be in the minority here, but I would much rather the team go 7 - 5 where four of those five losses are nailbiters that hang in the balance late into the 4th quarter; than go 9 - 3 where the three losses are blowout defeats against the 3 best teams on the schedule.

Progress for me is the team showing real grit and pride week in, week out and genuinely competing up and down the schedule. That way, we can be happy that the team is better on the basis of improved performances. Rather than facing a reality that it has a better record due to a kind schedule.

This schedule sucks, going 7-5 is unacceptable, as is going 9-3 while getting blown out.

I almost entirely agree. For me, during TW's last year the worst possible outcome would have been him winning another 1-2 games and having the Irish spin their wheels for another few years under his direction. I bascially want us to be awesome and get to the BCS, or awful so we can get a new coach who can better utililize the best talent ND has had on campus in years. I'm hoping for the former, but the latter is preferable over team that uninspiringly slogs along and grinds out 8 wins.

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Trolling fail

I'll help him out:

CHARLIE WEIS IS FAT

Yeah he is.

I'm just upset that ND will be good and Weis will be popular again. Weis is a person who doesn't deserve to receive any accolades IMO. It's always sad when ND is good, but it will be especially sad with this douche at the helm.

Touchdown Irish!!!!

Commence Kool-Aid drinking. Haven't been this excited since the opening drive against Pitt in '05.

Michigan looks awesome. GL next week.

Teo!! beaten than comes back to get him.