Favorite Notre Dame player from a “down” era?

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Knute Rockne qualifies as a really good player in a down era * - jbrown_9999 2019-06-16 16:46:11
Tim Scannell or Mike Perino * - CPinDC 2019-06-11 23:59:20
Allen Pinkett. * - tf86 2019-06-11 12:36:26
Nick Setta - Dude was nuts * - dinger9927 2019-06-10 21:09:22
Jabari Holloway - TCIrish03 2019-06-10 15:28:47
- Great bookstore basketball player too * - 206er 2019-06-11 19:01:16
Brady Quinn * - ND_Navy 2019-06-10 10:26:40
Anthony Denman * - MR_IRISH 2019-06-10 10:23:15
Red Mack - ram 2019-06-10 10:18:49
- I was inducted into my HS HOF with Red there last year - JBrock18 2019-06-10 10:56:22
  - awesome * - ram 2019-06-10 12:24:09
On offense: Jimmy Clausen; on defense: tie between.... - Camarillo Brillo 2019-06-10 09:36:50
Moose Krause. * - RocketShark 2019-06-10 08:49:04
Chet Grant * - Frank Drebin 2019-06-10 08:05:22
Mark Bavaro.... * - Wolfetone 2019-06-09 20:44:31
- "I'm not sure he's All-Pro...but I am sure he's all jungle" * - irishrock 2019-06-10 12:07:06
- He was a beast...funny story(more) - Dangelotti 2019-06-10 09:30:43
Mike “Kitty Kat” Kiernan * - Azars31 2019-06-09 20:15:59
Joey Getherall - Kmurphy173 2019-06-09 19:52:32
- Special teams don’t matter * - irishrock 2019-06-09 22:26:05
  - Until they do, right? * - irishhawk49 2019-06-10 18:28:49
- 35 thousand - SWPaDem 2019-06-09 20:26:22
  - Not as bad as seeing it live. - Wooderson 2019-06-10 18:01:25
    - I sat in the nice yellow seats. - jfs86 2019-06-12 09:14:00
    - Two decades later that game still galls me * - 88_92wsnd 2019-06-11 06:50:04
- Ah, the "I didn't think any magic was going to come down - ArasEra 2019-06-09 20:10:34
  - The brutal Irony is that if he named Urban his OC - OITLinebacker 2019-06-10 08:22:48
Autry Denson - GreenMonstah 2019-06-09 19:33:12
Allen Pinckett * - jrdjr84 2019-06-09 17:58:48
- Allen Pinkett. Agreed. * - RIBS 2019-06-09 20:43:13
Hiawatha Francisco - RJD 2019-06-09 17:30:53
- Great story on a truly great individual - tf86 2019-06-11 12:48:58
Robert Hughes * - Patrick Bateman 2019-06-09 14:45:05
Zbikowski * - miamioh_irishfan 2019-06-09 14:08:18
- "Ain't nobody gonna catch him...in this lifetime." - G.K.Chesterton 2019-06-09 22:36:21
From 1962 Kuharich team: Daryle Lamonica, Don Hogan, - foxrocks 2019-06-09 11:52:07
- way off the front page - olson 2019-06-09 13:04:56
  - A footnote for Chicago-area types... - Kbyrnes 2019-06-09 22:46:26
  - tip of the iceberg, from what I understand - jt 2019-06-09 15:18:53
    - way, way off the front page * - olson 2019-06-09 18:10:01
      - Despite that, ND could've done as well as 7-2 in 1963 - ShermanOaksND 2019-06-11 13:33:00
        Even without Ara they might have gone 7-2 ... - BIGSKYND 2019-06-12 11:11:16
      - so many guys flunked out of ND at that time - jt 2019-06-09 20:25:53
      - You need to write a book - PattyMulligan 2019-06-09 19:36:20
      - The Nick Eddy story according to Dillon lore was that - NH74Domer 2019-06-09 19:05:30
Beuerlein * - 84david 2019-06-09 11:31:25
Shane Walton * - Remember_Its_Denver 2019-06-09 11:28:38
Allen Pinkett helped carry the team in the Faust era. * - rgvirish 2019-06-09 11:19:02
- Agreed * - Sec15Row37Guy 2019-06-09 18:39:22
Tim Brown * - Hanratty5ND 2019-06-09 08:39:49
Laws * - Smokin_Clover 2019-06-09 08:26:48
He was #1 HS QB in 1993. - domer4 2019-06-08 23:32:16
- Mirer? Wasn’t great? - irishrock 2019-06-09 01:02:09
  - No kidding, Mirer was a great college QB. * - TWO 2019-06-09 08:36:46
    - Mirer was a square peg in a round hole. - domer4 2019-06-09 10:49:10
      - We would have won more games in '90 and '91 with anyone but - TCIrish03 2019-06-11 11:11:47
      - Maybe. His pro career was a strong indication that he - btd 2019-06-10 09:21:10
      - Wasn't Mirer more athletic than McDougal? - Tex Francisco 2019-06-09 13:22:18
        Probably better at making the option reads v better athelete * - btd 2019-06-10 09:23:01
      - Rick was a pretty athletic qb - jt 2019-06-09 11:55:30
        Rick perhaps wasn't capable of running a more sophisticated - btd 2019-06-10 08:44:20
        I think that he (and Powlus as well) could have - jt 2019-06-10 10:08:47
        Oddly, Ron's passing numbers were better under 96 than 97 * - btd 2019-06-10 13:55:07
        not odd at all, unfortunately - jt 2019-06-12 12:17:43
      - I’m glad he went to ND over Michigan - irishrock 2019-06-09 11:50:09
- Powlus was a square peg - ND_Navy 2019-06-09 00:34:19
  - He looked pretty good kicking LSU’s ass. * - Fasted68 2019-06-09 16:04:23
Powlus takes a lot of $hit but was a terrific guy. * - Giggity_Giggity 2019-06-08 23:11:03
- unlike several of his OL * - fourputtmd 2019-06-09 09:49:57
  - I nominate Jeff Pearson as biggest pos OL ever * - irishrock 2019-06-09 11:51:07
    - True -- but he was before Ron was at ND. Jeff was there - btd 2019-06-10 09:24:20
    - Think Petitgout wins that one - DBCooper 2019-06-09 14:45:06
      - Vollers had an interesting, short-lived post-football career - NJIrish04 2019-06-11 13:02:51
      - I saw it live - irishrock 2019-06-09 22:01:10
        What is the incident? - mocopdx 2019-06-11 10:56:12
        sorry - irishrock 2019-06-11 11:34:29
Greg Bell. Mark Bavaro * - Dillon301 2019-06-08 23:03:57
- Greg Bell story - ndlaw84 2019-06-10 17:14:38
Golden Tate * - jt 2019-06-08 22:20:27
- Same * - Brandon 2019-06-12 08:17:46
- Absolutely - elterrible 2019-06-10 11:53:37
- This is the correct answer * - JC 2019-06-09 16:59:26
- What do you mean down era? - mocopdx 2019-06-09 10:08:24
- Clear answer for me * - gordonbombay 2019-06-09 00:12:36
Paul Hornung. * - Fresno Mike 2019-06-08 21:57:29
- Paul came to mind for me too. He could do anything on a - HoundDog1973 2019-06-09 12:08:41