There were some things to cheer about.

I know that a few more people than Donny and me read our ramblings so I must start by passing kudos on to the Colonel for his prediction. That is hard to do under any circumstances, and this year is even more difficult. I have to say I felt pretty good about things in the first half and we certainly did look a bit more like a football team yesterday.

We did learn some important things:

1. The offense can score.
2. The offense can sustain an 80 yard drive.
3. Our backs are pretty good if they can get to the line of scrimmage.

Before the game, if I had told you we would have 9 first downs and 117 yards rushing you would say I was nuts.

On the other side, we learned some disconcerting things:

1. The defense is pretty lousy (3rd down effort, tackling). If the MSU QB was any good he could have really burned us.
2. Jeff Price is schizophrenic. In fact, all special teams really stink.
3. Things are not going to get better any time soon.

As for the band, the halftime show was another "Chicago" feature with a terrific bone and trumpet solo on one tune. The band will receive some cool Chicago/ND track suits this week as a memento from the rock band.

Finally, here is one of the Moreau banners from campus celebrating his beatification.

Go Irish, Beat Boilers!