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[QUOTE="longtimefan, post: 2854551, member: 212"]
I've disliked pre-determined "storylines " for decades, at least all the way back to Howard Cosell's pontificating intros to Monday Night Football games and World Series games. Howard would spend the next three hours either crowing about his prescience, if the game turned out as he had predicted; or attempting, through convoluted reasoning, to shoe-horn what was actually taking place on the field into his pre-game narrative.

Anyway, to get to the point--yesterday's game in South Bend:

The announcers kept harping on the relative youth of Notre Dame, and Brey mentioned (whined?) post-game about his boys playing against men. Now, losing Pfluger surely hurt them, but Gibbs and Harvey are both experienced players, and Mooney is no spring chicken. Besides which, I didn't hear a lot of excuses for ND's younger opponents as Brey wheeled 22 year olds out there for the 
past 8-10 years.

On to a bigger point--SU's historic unwillingness to play on the road (all of New York State now considered "home"):
Gminski again brought it up during the game, and the AP story noted that the Orange was "unfazed by playing just their second true road game of the season". Unnoted was the fact that the 3 remaining undefeated teams have each played 2 road games, as has media darling Kentucky. Top 5 Tenn. has played only 1. Oh, and the Duke Zions have played 0, as in Zero, true road games.

To me, this insistence on repeating "talking points" is just laziness on the part of the media.
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