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So you're going to stand pat that we'd only lose 5 games? by tdiddy07

0-2 against UT/NU and 3 losses against the remaining 9? That's not a real bold challenge to the assertion of 6 losses.

But yes 5-6 losses seems pretty reasonable. In addition to 0-2 against UT/NU:

You seem to assume the reasonable likelihood of ND losing 2 from the remaining slate based on your estimation that ND would go about 6-3 against the non-UT/NU teams from 2001. That's justifiable. We squeaked by on late scores against 2-4 and 3-3 team major conference teams and a 2-4 MAC team so far (effectively going 3-0 in toss ups), and we beat two other 3-3, 4-2 teams that will likely finish around .500. With five games remaining against teams around a .500 quality (and no MAC-level teams), based on our performance thus far and the staggering deficiencies in offensive line play, I'd guess 3-2 is probably the most likely outcome from our 2021 ACC/Pac 12 slate, plus a win against Navy.

Next, there is no Toledo on that schedule. A game like we played against Toledo would've lost to pretty much everyone on that 2001 schedule except for Navy. That's a likelihood of five total losses from these factors.

Finally, you nonsensically downgrade the 2001 schedule. You can't just assume an ND win against all those opponents to downgrade their record. We know those 2001 teams had the record they had. A&M and BC went 8-4, including beating a bad ND team, and Stanford went 9-3, including a beating a bad ND. The question here is whether the 2021 ND team would likely beat those team. You can't just call A&M a 7-5 team and then decide whether the 2021 ND team would beat that team. That's nonsense. Given that the 2001 schedule had 3 teams at 8-4 or better, that's likely going to be tougher than what ND is facing this year, even if you remove ND's 2021 game from their record. I'd guess there's an extra loss in their somewhere based on schedule strength.

All in all, this team looks like a 5 or 6 loss team against the 2001 schedule.