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it would have been a double rainbow

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Ha. In the fourth quarter, the ND fan behind me at the game when the sun started peeking through was like "God is shining on Notre Dame now, what do you think of that?"  I simply responded with "Denard."

7. Do you realize all our touchdown Jesus wear dreads at Michigan now?

that I felt that confident given our inabilty to move the ball in the 2nd half. 

I had the exact same reaction.  I only had two concerns at the start of the drive:  that the coaches would play safe for a field goal and overtime or we would score too fast and leave too much time on the clock.  I can't remember feeling that "we have them right where we want them" way before, losing in the final minutes.

when we did score on our final drive, I still wasn't comfortable until Crist's final pass went into the Tuba section.

With a veteran starter at quarterback and the Irish receivers, I think they've got a decent shot at scoring a touchdown there. It's still a gamble, but it's a huge payout if they make it.

When the starter is out and the third-string quarterback is playing, though, it's definitely a mistake. I don't think it would have been a much better idea with Crist playing. Crist did throw the ball out of the end zone on the hail mary at the end of the game, after all.

At the time, I thought Kelly should have kicked the FG also.  But after thinking about it some more, I am not so sure.  At the time, Kelly didn't know whether he was going to get Crist back or not.  Obviously, if you know Crist is coming back into the game, you take the points and go into halftime with the score a little closer.   But if you think you're going to have Nate Montana for the rest of the day, this might be one of the only chances you'll have to get into the end zone--and being down 14 already, field goals aren't going to be enough.  So I think it was a respectable decision by Kelly, even if I still think kicking the sure 3 was the better call.

or Denard'd, I vote for the latter as in you boom denard'd

This loss was a lot easier than last years, expected it to be a good game going into it and it was but not for all the right reasons.  ND losing Crist for anytime this year was going to be a tough for the offense and every ND fan knew it, let alone in the 2nd game of the year for nearly half the game.  ND's defense is what kept them in the game despite Robinson going off and that is saying something after last season, not to mention again his performance.

I will give Denard all the credit he deserves, but I pray UM finds yards from someone else on the team to help him out in the offense.  40 passes and 30 rushes a game is a stiff pace to continue for one player the rest of the year.  I want to see him do the same thing to the rest of UM's schedule but he won't be able to do that if he falls apart like forcier did from all the hits he took last year.  

I haven't seen their game from this week yet, their line's looked pretty weak in week 1 but it was just week 1

Do you not think that ND would have scored more points with Crist on the field? 

With Crist as the QB: On 41 plays they had 379 yards of offense (over 9 yards a play), 3 TDs, 1 FG and an 1 int.

Without Crist: 172 yds on 36 plays (4 yards per play) no points and 2 ints.  

ND lost because UM's defense was stout against the 2nd and 3rd string QBs, forcing 2 turnovers and keeping them off the scoreboard.  Like I said, I thought the game was over at the end of the first half without Crist on the field.  Those numbers make it pretty obvious.