(The Rock Report) – 2012 will go down as a season with some of the ugliest scores since the 60s. 20-17, 13-6, 20-13(ot), 17-14, 29-26(ot), 22-13… wretchedly ugly when viewed on a schedule, but so, so beautiful when you also see the heart behind the score. During this unbeaten run it seemed as if a…
Just when we thought we were out of conference re-alignment, the B1G once again attempts to pull us back in. Yesterday, the University of Maryland announced their move to the Formerly-Known-As-Integer conference. While the reasoning behind this move is no secret, it seems the deliberative process behind the move was much more so. And it…
(The Rock Report) – The last time Notre Dame was in this rarified air, the season hadn’t even started. In 2006 the Irish were the consensus #1 choice in pre-season rags, 2nd in the AP and 3rd in the coaches’ poll. The only problem was that the team hadn’t played a game and achieved that…
…ND would be in the National Title Game. I don’t know about you, but that’s as deep as my interest goes on the subject given that parameter. If we’re in Miami Gardens, I really don’t care who’s tooling around in Tempe or Pasadena. It all goes on the pay-no-mind list. So instead, let’s engage in…
As the late great Mike Royko once said, some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. As much as we talk about style points, I think we’re OK this week with Bama going down and Kansas State putting in the same workman-like effort we did. Georgia isn’t going to…