Valpo is ND's latest cream-puff victim, 10-3
by ShermanOaksND (2017-04-26 00:29:43)
Edited on 2017-04-26 00:50:26
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Next: Eastern Michigan. Today was the first of 13 straight home games for ND, of which 7 will be against OOC opponents -- all of whom currently are below .500 on the season. (This includes Northwestern and Western Michigan, neither of whom were on the original schedule released last November.) In fact, of ND's final 16 games, only 3 are against a team currently above .500 -- vs. No. 2 Louisville from May 5-7. The only other remaining ACC series for ND are this weekend against Duke (21-21, 8-13) and the only remaining road series at Boston College (16-22, 6-15).

With ND now at 19-22 (8-13), a .500 or better regular season suddenly seems plausible, particularly with this mostly-soft schedule. Even if UL sweeps ND, it's not hard to imagine ND going 4-2 combined against Duke and BC and 5-1 in the last 6 OOC (home) games. That would make the season record 28-28.

Do you think Swarbrick would make a coaching change at that point? I don't.

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