Please. You weren't doing a whole heck of a lot with Rees, either. Seriously, you played a beaten down and depleted USC team - at home - and let them hang around for the entire game. If USC had a speck of talent at the o-line or QB, you would've lost. In fact, USC's multiple holding penalties were bigger reasons for the loss than anything your team did. Be honest for a change. ND isn't a very good team, and any intelligent recruit who watched that game assuredly noticed that.
If you're 9-2 heading into the Stanford game, it's because your schedule is garbage up to that game. You play Air Force (1-6), Navy (3-3), Pitt (4-2), and BYU. Try playing a legitimate schedule.
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Sing her glory and sound her fame,
Raise her Gold and Blue
And cheer with voices true:
Rah, rah, for Notre Dame
We will fight in ev-ry game,
Strong of heart and true to her name
We will ne'er forget her
And will cheer her ever
Loyal to Notre Dame
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame,
Wake up the echoes cheering her name,
Send a volley cheer on high,
Shake down the thunder from the sky.
What though the odds be great or small
Old Notre Dame will win over all,
While her loyal sons are marching
Onward to victory.