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WTF???!!!! HELP!!! Is this accurate?

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:51 pm
by T REX
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coachi ... &year=1975

Basically....DAN DEVINE won his first two games on the road!!! If that is true than that bgus AP article is complete bullshit. Please note: Weis is still the real deal. I just cannot believe the journalistic oversight.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:23 am
by Jimmy Medalions
what the fuck are you talking about idiot.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:33 am
by T REX
Jimmy Medalions wrote:what the fuck are you talking about idiot.
This...........

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A mere two games into his coaching career at Notre Dame, Charlie Weis has joined Knute Rockne in the record books -- and has his team playing like the Fighting Irish of old.

Brady Quinn threw two touchdown passes in the first half and the 20th-ranked Fighting Irish held on to beat No. 3 Michigan 17-10 Saturday, making Weis the first Notre Dame coach to win his first two games on the road since Rockne in 1918.


An AP story claiming that Weis did something that hadn't been done since Rockne. Why don't you grow up. Seriously. Read first before you spout off at the mouth. I swear you act twelve. You trojans fans have taken the ultimate bitch status as the most obnoxious fans alive. Far worse than NUfan or OUfan or Miamifan in their respective heydays. What's your fucking problem? You act like a little bitch that can't read? Did you even go to fucking college?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:12 am
by peter dragon
Trex thats a good question, unless you account for ND and purdue being in basicly the same place... dont know any one?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:16 am
by BlindRef
Last year when I was in South Bend, we stole a fifth of liquor from some shitty bar downtown. We got so fucked up that we convinced ourselves that pissing on Knute Rockne's grave was a great idea. Well better heads prevailed and as we sobbered we couldn't believe how terrible of an idea that was.

But...now...I like idea a lot more.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:37 am
by T REX
Believe the Heupel wrote:The way I heard it on TV was beating two ranked teams on the road to start a tenure.
Gotcha, but that story from ESPN clearly says "first two road games". Someone screwed up somewhere.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:01 am
by The Seer
T Rix, just so you know, I voted for you as board bitch....I got yer back....

However, you are right this time...

Notre Dame semen prematurely spouting all over themselves.....

What will be will be....

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:12 am
by King Crimson
a factual error in a national sports media piece?

impossible.

Re: WTF???!!!! HELP!!! Is this accurate?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:40 am
by frodo_biguns
T REX wrote:http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coachi ... &year=1975

Basically....DAN DEVINE won his first two games on the road!!! If that is true than that bgus AP article is complete bullshit. Please note: Weis is still the real deal. I just cannot believe the journalistic oversight.
You forgot to mention the Packer fans that murdered his dog after the Packers bad season.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:17 pm
by Terry in Crapchester
Here's my thought, T REX.

The Fredo game was not played at Chestnut Hill, but at Foxboro, MA, presumably at Schaeffer Stadium (the Patriots then-home). Thus, my guess is that the Fredo game was not considered an "away" game, but rather, a "neutral field" game (how "neutral" the field was may be debatable, but then again, Fredo was nowhere near as good a program back then as they are today).

By this analysis, Devine still won his first two road games, but his second road game win didn't come until the fifth game of the season. I think the AP article you saw was a reference to Weis winning the first two games of his coaching career, both of which happened to be road games. That alone makes it a difficult feat, since scheduling becomes a factor in whether a coach can accomplish this. Historically, ND has rarely played its first two games on the road, although now that they have made it clear that they want to open the season before the Michigan game, that may be happening more often in years when the Michigan game is a road game.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:35 pm
by Terry in Crapchester
BlindRef wrote:Last year when I was in South Bend, we stole a fifth of liquor from some shitty bar downtown.
There's plenty of those, or at least, there were, back in my day.

True story: when I was an undergrad, Indiana was a 21 state back when 21 states weren't terribly common. There were a number of bars in South Bend. One of those bars, Corby's, had a policy of making sure that all of its patrons had ID's, but never actually checked the information on the ID's. Needless to say, Corby's was a pretty popular hangout for undergrads.

At the end of my sophomore year, Corby's was still going strong. Then I left for the summer, came back for my junior year, and when I got back, Corby's was no more. Seems that the owner was actually murdered during that summer. :shock:

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:03 pm
by Killian
What Terry said. Devine beat BC on a "netural" site, even though it was in Boston. So he won his first two games on the road and on a netural site.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:33 pm
by indyfrisco
I agree with the Domers.

However, if it was any other school, no one would have looked up that stupid tidbit nor would they try to bend the meaning to show that the coach (Weis) had done something greater than he actually did.

In 40 years, September 10, 2005, will be known as the day that Chuck Weis and Notre Dame not only climbed the mountain to fight Goliath (Pitt), but also beat his twin brother (UM) too the following week.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:04 pm
by SoCalTrjn
but did Pitt really deserve that "ranking"?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:30 pm
by indyfrisco
SoCalTrjn wrote:but did Pitt really deserve that "ranking"?
That's kind of what I was getting at.

Hyperbole is the media's #1 Notre Dame marketing tool.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:31 pm
by T REX
Terry in Crapchester wrote:Here's my thought, T REX.

The Fredo game was not played at Chestnut Hill, but at Foxboro, MA, presumably at Schaeffer Stadium (the Patriots then-home). Thus, my guess is that the Fredo game was not considered an "away" game, but rather, a "neutral field" game (how "neutral" the field was may be debatable, but then again, Fredo was nowhere near as good a program back then as they are today).

By this analysis, Devine still won his first two road games, but his second road game win didn't come until the fifth game of the season. I think the AP article you saw was a reference to Weis winning the first two games of his coaching career, both of which happened to be road games. That alone makes it a difficult feat, since scheduling becomes a factor in whether a coach can accomplish this. Historically, ND has rarely played its first two games on the road, although now that they have made it clear that they want to open the season before the Michigan game, that may be happening more often in years when the Michigan game is a road game.
That makes sense but how often does this occur then? What I am saying is that if only two coaches had the opportunity to this then its no big deal. Does that make sense?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:42 pm
by Killian
T REX wrote:That makes sense but how often does this occur then? What I am saying is that if only two coaches had the opportunity to this then its no big deal. Does that make sense?
Not often because ND has rarely had to deal with shitbag-bendover-take-it-in-the-ass AD's who would allow the schedule to come out like this. Hell, it wouldn't have even happend this year if they didn't rearange the Pitt game. But you're right, it's no big deal. But when a new coach at ND wins, the media will jump all over it and the fact that this hasn't happend since Rockne, the more they love it.