On Again, Off Again

My brilliant wife hit the nail on the head about the Irish this year and I quote "The team is an every other week team in 2011, unfortunately we have to play every week". Another head scratcher yesterday as we played mediocre on offense but we able to sneak out of the stadium with a win. My son reminded me that a lousy win on Senior day is much better than a lousy loss so we will take it.

Tommy continues to regress every once in a while; should have been intercepted another 2-3 times in addition to the one he tossed. He also was force to throw it way out of bounds a couple times. BC threw all kinds of innovative blitz packages at Tommy and he was out of synch all game. Maybe he will improve a lot next year, but he just does not strike me as a championship caliber QB. On the post game radio show, Reggie Brooks pointed that thanks to our stout defense, we just need a QB who does not lose the game. Tommy has been right on the edge a few times (including a couple we lost). Brian Kelly gets testy when asked about it and talks about how Rees is 12-2 as a starter but I think he forgets the point that other players bail him out often.

Defense played another good game and considering the hurt or sick players I guess we have to be OK with the victory. A Weis team would have folded like rice paper. David Ruffer earned his scholarship yesterday and Floyd looked pretty good. Nice to close it out at home and achieve 8-3 so far. Been a while.

Anyway, this team will probably go down as one that fell short of expectations and potential UNLESS they surprise us with a huge upset next week. Do not see it happening right now but on the other hand if we play our best we can make it interesting. If we follow our on again, off again pattern we may play well. Stanford will certainly be favored but this will be the first game all season we are the underdog. Perhaps that fact will serve as some inspiration. Jonas Gray might be done for the year and that will hurt our chances a bit but Wood and Atkinson will be OK.

Special day for us yesterday with Angela performing in her last home game show. The half time was terrific with the band Chicago, enjoy it on NBC.com. Weather cooperated enough for late November so even though the game was a drag, we we pleased to be dry and warm.

Let's go out on a high note! Looking forward to seeing the Guarino and Wussler families in California.

GO IRISH! BEAT CARDINAL!