2009-12-01T20:17:50-05:00 Notre Dame assistant's complaint rings hollow 2009-11-12T12:11:03-05:00 39 2009-11-12T12:11:03-05:00 1 4 10 2009-11-16T03:35:49-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/174/758/thumb/backyard.jpg 242 AL jonesm75 Huntsville 175058 39 Cut blocking is part of football. Very unprofessional comments coming from an assistant. Guess he's pissed because his team SUX! Say what you want, but norte dame had the weakest schedule of 09 and actually lost a few. Truth hurts. 7667196 2009-11-15T22:15:00-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/903/960/thumb/images.jpg 11 MO Fillzporsche Kansas City 904621 38 As a life time ND fan, the bad news for the Irish faithful is that if Charlie goes, I'm willing to bet Jimmy and Golden go with him. That would put us back at ground zero for three more years while the next coach brings his players in, get them indoctrinated into the system and hopefully start to compete. Kelly from Cincinnati isn't the answer either. He's a one hit wonder in a gimmick offense. He's getting the same hype the guy from Rutgers got after one good year. We're on the cusp, if Charlie makes the changes necessary, (dump Tenuta, Herbstreit called him one of the top defensive minds in the country, if that were true, would his defense be ranked amongst the worst in the country? He's as predictable as the sun rising and setting each day.) We could get ourselves out of this hole. 7665238 2009-11-15T21:31:44-05:00 2 XX slinky No City 918619 37 Before the game against Pittsburgh, I still heard announcers talking about ND and a possible BCS Bowl bid - enough already! That team is treated better at the expense of other &quot;legitimate&quot; college players - I thought America was built on meritocracy. Join a conference and stop the whining! And to ABC - sorry you picked a loser! 7664853 2009-11-15T21:28:58-05:00 2 XX slinky No City 918619 36 Before the game against Pittsburgh, I still heard announcers talking about ND and a possible BCS Bowl bid - enough already! That team is treated better at the expense of other &quot;legitimate&quot; college players - I thought America was built on meritocracy. Join a conference and stop the whining! And to ABC - sorry you picked a loser! 7664813 2009-11-13T10:02:08-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/710/649/thumb/gamedayvictory.jpg 66 TX Victor Welch Houston 711289 22 I just hate it when Navy beats up on Notre Dame.! I mean, don't those yahoos at the service academies KNOW that they are playing against future first round NFL draft picks! Why should Notre Dame have to confront legal and effective blocking techniques! Why should a sure-fire first round pick like Jimmy Clausen have to suffer sacks from amateurish officer candidates! Why should Notre Dame coaches have to be bothered with developing schematic advantage against such lesser athletic competition! I think Notre Dame should have written agreements with all of their opponents. The opposing teams must promise not to play too hard, and in turn Notre Dame has to promise not to win by too much. And of course, any thought of the opposing team actually defeating Notre Dame must be verboten! 7643884 2009-11-15T16:25:39-05:00 5 KS jmax66052 Manhattan 136363 I just hate it when Navy beats up on Notre Dame.! I mean, don't those yahoos at the service academies KNOW that they are playing against future first round NFL draft picks! Why should Notre Dame have to confront legal and effective blocking techniques! Why should a sure-fire first round pick like Jimmy Clausen have to suffer sacks from amateurish officer candidates! Why should Notre Dame coaches have to be bothered with developing schematic advantage against such lesser athletic competition!I think Notre Dame should have written agreements with all of their opponents. The opposing teams must promise not to play too hard, and in turn Notre Dame has to promise not to win by too much. And of course, any thought of the opposing team actually defeating Notre Dame must be verboten! 35 HAHAHAHA! Excellent! 7662766 2009-11-15T09:29:01-05:00 957 TX Bedias90 Vidor 190275 34 Dame* 7661534 2009-11-13T13:01:27-05:00 15 KY Purple People Louisville 819346 28 The USS Substandard Weiss is about to set sail. 7647668 2009-11-15T09:28:41-05:00 957 TX Bedias90 Vidor 190275 The USS Substandard Weiss is about to set sail. 33 Will Notre ame have to buy out Weis and his ridiculous EIGHT YEARS remaining on his contract? 7661533 2009-11-13T01:51:40-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/112/19/thumb/20100101213703551258000-gyi.jpg 990 OH ohio state and cleveland fan Columbus 11239 At the end of the day there is no acceptable reason we lost this game. We should have smashed Navy and we didn't, end of story. It looks to me like we just got out-coached ...and we all should know what that means............. 19 Thank you Notre Dame fan. You are absolutely right. But seriously, this Brown idiot is just complaining because he knows Charlie is done.... and the next guy is gonna clean house. Complaining about cut blocking= officials didn't give us calls, and we are Notre Dame. We should get those calls all the time. 7642059 2009-11-15T09:24:34-05:00 957 TX Bedias90 Vidor 190275 Thank you Notre Dame fan. You are absolutely right. But seriously, this Brown idiot is just complaining because he knows Charlie is done.... and the next guy is gonna clean house. Complaining about cut blocking= officials didn't give us calls, and we are Notre Dame. We should get those calls all the time. 32 all correct, and the College football world outside of South Bend Indiana is sick of hearing and seeing it. Domer fans--nobody can AWARD you a return to your former glory you gotta earn it 7661522 2009-11-14T21:48:54-05:00 957 TX Bedias90 Vidor 190275 31 If you cant stop the run game, youre dead meat in this day of so many quality runners. Notre Dame didnt even make the proper adjustments all game longn Navy just ripped em a new one and the irish are obviously undercoached--this aint gonna get better without a name change on the Head coaches office door. 7659648 2009-11-14T08:37:57-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/816/723/thumb/StealYourFace.jpg 33 Mike A. 817383 30 This is a top down issue at N.D. My guess is Charlie put him up to it. 7655860 39 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2009/11/07/17/200911071752643771707-p2.jpg" alt="Double Click to select a Photo" width="298" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align:right;">Notre Dame's Brown ripped Navy's Niumatalolo.::AP</div> </div> <p>Notre Dame associate head coach Corwin Brown offered two complaints Wednesday about Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo. One may have been legitimate. The other most certainly was not.</p> <p>Brown, Notre Dame's co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach, ripped Navy's cut blocking, calling it "malicious." He may very well be correct on that front, because option teams often tread a fine line between legal blocking and outright kneecapping. Brown called Niumatalolo this week to tell him just that, and hopefully the conversation was productive. Unfortunately, Brown loses all sympathy points for <a href="http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2009/11/notre-dame-assistant-corwin-brown-rips-navy-coachs-comments.html" target="_blank">whining about Niumatalolo's postgame comments</a>.</p> <p>Niumatalolo said after Navy's 23-21 win at Notre Dame that the Midshipmen were so sure that the Fighting Irish would make no adjustments from 2008, they designed plays guaranteed to work against last year's Notre Dame schemes. Niumatalolo was correct. Navy, with a roster of players who never would have been recruited by Notre Dame, gained 194 yards and scored two first-half touchdowns.</p> <p>Brown took offense at Niumatalolo's assertion that Irish defensive coaches didn't prepare their players. "I thought it was very disappointing, what the Navy coach said after the game," Brown told The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday night.&nbsp;"He didn't want something to be misconstrued, but then he said it, regarding how we prepared and what we prepared to do. I'm going to tell you this - we came out in the second half, minus one mess-up, they don't get anything."</p> <p>Indeed, after the cracker-jack adjustments from Notre Dame's defensive staff, Navy gained only 210 yards and scored only one touchdown in the second half. "Whether you think it's the right thing to say or not, in this profession, with all the classy guys that I've watched and played under and studied, they would never say a thing like that," Brown told the paper.&nbsp;"To say that we didn't&nbsp;prepare well or we didn't have a good game plan, that's crazy."</p> <p>Except Irish defensive coaches didn't prepare their players well. And they didn't have a good game plan. If they had, their superior athletes would have dominated Navy. Sorry, but I'm with <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/sports/hayes/1876475,CST-SPT-neil11.article" target="_blank">Notre Dame defensive tackle Ian Williams </a>on this one.</p> <p>Brown, who offered these comments before reporters could even ask a question, might want to think hard about the difference between himself and Niumatalolo before he makes more grand pronouncements. Niumatalolo's employer wants him to come back next year. Brown and his fellow defensive coaches probably can't say the same.</p> http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/245/899/thumb/staples_andy2.jpg 39 Andy Staples 246219 85941 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2009/11/07/17/200911071752643771707-p2.jpg" alt="Double Click to select a Photo" width="298" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align:right;">Notre Dame's Brown ripped Navy's Niumatalolo.::AP</div> </div> <p>Notre Dame associate head coach Corwin Brown offered two complaints Wednesday about Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo. One may have been legitimate. The other most certainly was not.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>