Keith Arnold of NBC Inside The Irish and apparently confirmed by the Sports writers of the student paper The Observer indicate Wood suspended for maybe more than one game.
The reason unknown at this time. Wood joins Rees and Calabrese not making the trip to Ireland for the Navy Game.
If true, a really stupid move for a Senior with aspirations for an NFL career.
Lackluster game with 2 God awful announcers. Very unimaginative game plan for ND both offense and defense.
Lots of injuries–Cave, Teo Lynch and TJ Jones.
Rees 2 TD passes and 2 pics.
Jonas Gray & Cierre Wood ran for 180 combined yards. Mike Golic subbed for Cave–played extremely well and I hope he gets a 5th year.
Think ND just plays badly in Night Games but did comeback to win game down 17-10 at the half.
Watching this game–what went thru my head was–Andrew Luck!!!!!
Offense MVP’s–Golic, Gray & Wood.
Defense MVP’s–Tuitt & Lynch.
Next up :
Maryland 2W 7L–night game
Boston College 2W 7L
and then Stanford( currently undefeated) at Night.
So ND should be 8-3 when they play Stanford–let’s hope Standford has multiple injuries or a miracle happens to Rees’s arm.
This game basically over by halftime with ND 49 AF 16 due primarily to turnovers by AF and an unstoppable ND offensive performance.
ND totaled 560 yards total offense with Rees passing for 4 TD’S 260 yards and the rest by an explosive running game.
The following players scored:
Floyd, Eifert, Gray, Wood, Riddick, Atkinson and Roby Toma–his first as a ND player.
Andrew Hendrix leading rusher at 111 yards which included a 78 yard run–should have been a TD but Hendrix got his feet tangled and fell down at the 1 yard line.
Dominating offensive performance and MVP offense goes to Rees.
Defense was another matter altogether–they were gashed for 565 yards and clearly don’t have a clue how to stop a fast paced multiple style option offense. AF just couldn’t put points on the board when it mattered. Does not bode well for future opponent Navy which cut blocks a lot more than AF.
Jamoris Slaughter the defensive MVP.
Surprised that freshman DL Chase Hounshell, number 50 played although he looked pretty damn good–but burns a year of eligibility.
Overall a win against a good team. 4-2 going into bye week.
Check out highlight video from und.com below:
Finally a relaxing game for ND fans as Purdue was stomped big time to the tune of 551 yds by the ND offense.
Great running game by Wood (191 yds) including a 55 yard burst for a TD. Jonas Gray finally got more touches which produced 94 rushing yds.
Tommy Rees–no turnovers hit for 3 TD passes and 250 yds passing. Floyd, TJ Jones and Eifert all scored.
Defense held Purdue to 276 total yds.
Special Teams need a lot of work–2 missed field goals and a blocked one could really cost going ahead,.
Somehow the snapper and holder have to get it together. Punt return–non existent.
Tuitt missed the bus for missing a class and that had a ripple effect–Lynch had to play more due to injury to Ethan Johnson(ankle) and what I didn’t know– ND wanted to red shirt Kona Schwenke this year. So a bad decision by Tuitt cost a teammate a year of eligibility.
Crist did mop up duty which surprised me. Kelly apparently asked him if he wanted to go in and he said yes. Real ND man–real high character.
Other than the above–very satisfying win.
I did have the opportunity of watching Air Force vs Navy which made me anxious–both excellent option teams–play fast and intense for 4 quarters yet they don’t seem to tire out at all. ND will have to put up big big numbers to make them one dimensional—red flag games.
USC also seems much improved–damn it!
