Game One

Yes Bekki, I too, am ready!

I'm ready for this season.
I'm ready for another 10 or more wins.
I'm ready for Wimbush to win it for the Irish!

What am I most ready for?
This Notre Dame and Michigan rivalry to ignite again!  And, you said it best - we get to watch the game together!

I, too, have read about ND's preparations, recruiting, spring and summer training, recruiting, and watched Trick Shot Monday.  All with much anticipation and excitement to get this season under way with a big game!

My pick 6:
1. Watching the game with my bestie!
2. Chase Claypool's catches.
3. Strength and conditioned ND players play hard!
4. Julian Love's D skills.
5. Game Day excitement on ND campus.
6. Irish Wear Green = green stadium

Go IRISH!!!
Gretchen

I'm so ready

"We want the Big Ten Championship, and we're gonna win it as a team. They can throw out all those
 great backs and great quarterbacks and great defensive players throughout the country and in this conference.  But there's gonna be one team that's gonna play solely as a team.  No man is more important than the team; no coach is more important than the team.  The team. The team. The team.  And if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration, what effect does it have on my team.  Because you can go into professional football, you can go anywhere you want to play after you leave here; you will never play for a team again.  You'll play for a contract.  You'll play for this, you'll play for that.  You'll play for everything except the team.  And think what a great thing it is to be a part of something that is the team.  We're gonna win it.  We're gonna win the championship again because we're gonna play as a team better than anybody else in this conference, we're gonna play together as a team.  We're gonna believe in each other, we're not criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other.  And when we play as a team, when the old season is over, you and I know it's gonna be Michigan again....Michigan!"


                                                                                                               Bo Schembechler 1983
                                                                                                                Head Coach
                                                                                                                Michigan Football

I promised myself at the end of last year, I wasn't going to let this team break my heart ever again.  I wasn't going to buy in to all the hype. I wasn't going to obsess over recruiting this summer. I wasn't going to analyze every little tidbit that came out from fall camp.  I wasn't going to watch every hype video created.  I'm just not going to do it.  I invest so much of my heart and soul in to this team and year after year they break up with me. I feel like a bride left at the altar.  They crush my dreams of them being Champions again. And, I'm proud to say, I've protected my heart.....until now.  I just can't get enough.  I'm checking Twitter every chance I get.  I'm reading articles.  I'm watching old games even though I know how they end.  The last time Michigan played ND, I was watching with my bestie, whom also happens to be an ND fan.  This year, I'll be watching with her again.

My Pick Six for this weekend:
1. I'll be with my bestie
2. Shea, you better be all that you're said to be
3. Receiving corps, step up or step out
4. O-line, I'll be watching very closely
5. Defense, be more amazing that you were last year.
6. Harbaugh, you better not be too soft. I like your grit

Go Blue!
~Bekki