It’s funny when you see true catholic guilt from the Notre Dame fanbase, and after Notre Dame’s 28-24 loss to BYU — it’s something other than funny.
It’s annoying.
Two things can be true at the same time. Hell, THREE THINGS can be true at the same time. So let’s state clearly what those “things” might be.
Notre Dame played like crap in the first half and made too many mistake throughout the game to win.
The last play of the game should have had a flag thrown for defensive pass interference as it was
as blatantly obvious as it gets.
The last play of the game shouldn’t have been the last play of the game because THERE WAS ONE SECOND LEFT ON THE CLOCK WHEN THE BALL HIT THE GROUND.
The arguments about not leaving the game in the hands of the refs from the guilted ones will point to that first true thing as the end all and be all, which supercedes any other reasoning. And you know what? They aren’t wrong. So, for the sake of sanity, we will just forget one of the worst no-call DPI’s I’ve seen in quite some time, and scratch it from our things… of which we still have two.
Some might say that Notre Dame deserved to lose. Well — maybe they did, but they deserved to lose in a game that went the full 60 minutes.
It’s not anywhere close to “making an excuse” to say that there was one second left on the clock and Notre Dame got screwed out of having one more chance to score from the 6 yard line. And to think… we already saw this kind of crazy stuff this year with the Michigan and Western Michigan game.
Notre Dame’s offensive gameplan and execution was poor. Notre Dame’s defensive gameplan and execution was also poor. Ultimately, the defense got its act together for the most part in the second half, but the damage was already done. The offense never seemed to fully get it together. Notre Dame deserved to lose, but did they deserve to be cheated out of a final play?
No, of course not. It’s why even those that don’t really care for Notre Dame are looking at this game and saying… there should have been one second still on the clock bruh. So, yeah, we can take the DPI out of it entirely, and we’re still sitting here with one second left on the clock which would have allowed one more play from the 6 yard line for the Irish.
Notre Dame (or any team) should never leave the fate of the game in the refs hands, but when the officials actually steal away one last chance — that’s on them and they deserve the any and all criticism and amonishment. It was a travesty of justice and home cooking you would have seen back in the balck and white television days.
I thought we moved forward in life and left the stealing of games in the past, but I guess not.
I thought this Notre Dame team was different than those in the recent past that had all the potential to not lose games like this, but I guess not.
Two things can be true at the same time. Notre Dame had the ending of this game stolen from them, and Notre Dame did everything possible to make sure it could happen.
What time is confession?
