Notre Dame Fans Make My Head Hurt

Very quickly, a summary of Saturday for you...

Lose the turnover battle, lose the game.  Sure there are exceptions but for the basis of football this statistic go farther in deciding a final score than anything else. 

Clausen isn't a joke because of it, Michael Floyd isn't going to be an irrelevant wideout the rest of his career.  Charlie Weis is not the one to blame and should not be the one taking the blame for the loss at North Carolina.

The team came out today and played very well together.  They didn't play a whole four quarters, they simply did not finish. 

I am sick and tired of bi-polar Irish fans thinking that just because of this loss that Notre Dame isn't going to compete for a BCS game or anything like that in the coming years.

At the start of the year anyone with any college football sense knew this was going to be a dogfight in which the Irish were likely going to be overmatched.

Credit North Carolina for capitalizing off of the turnovers Notre Dame made.  This team is on the rise and played very well outside of a very select few plays.

Sure there are no "moral victories", but young teams make mistakes. I'm not making excuses—just speaking the truth.

Does it make it okay? No, but as long as something is learned from today's breakdown things will be fine.

Time to move on with life, don't start this ignorant bashing of Charlie Weis, Jimmy Clausen or Michael Floyd.  Young teams make mistakes and thats exactly what happened today.

If we lose like this next year we have a problem, in 2008 a loss like this is nearly expected to happen.  The team was 3-9 last year, remember? It is entirely unrealistic to think this team will be groomed for major bowl contention. 

The two losses the Irish have had this year have been on the road against an MSU team who is better than Notre Dame this year and a North Carolina team that could have gone the other way very easily.

So a few freshman and sophomores messed up this afternoon and the Irish lost.  Lessons will be learned and problems will be solved from today's colapse.  In the mean time don't get down on this team, there are much brighter days not that far ahead.