Rockne's Roundtable

Simple. I'd pull the Kobayashi Maru and take all four.

I was thinking this too. Guarantee 7 wins, steel two away games, and, bam, 9-win season. In 2012, I'll take it.

You certainly know how to throw up the tricky questions there LuLu. I like A., but with the Navy game in Ireland a HOME game, and the Miami game in Chi-Town a HOME game, that skew's that category. I'll take B. last game of season, their turf, them probably in the National Title picture, definitely BCS material. And if we beat them atthat stage of the season, I would have to say we probably had a very successful season to be in that spot to begin with.

As much as I hate losing to USC, I pick A. Are we considering the Navy and Miami games as home games? If so, that is 8 wins, with wins over UM and Stanford included. We could end up with 10 wins if we split the 4 away games (Mich St., OU, BC and USC), which I could see this team doing.

EDIT- Just read your new post Lou, I would still pick A and count on the team at least splitting the remainder of the season ending with a very good 9 or 10 win season.

Always always beat SC...we have a good chance to accomplish the other choices anyway....if I could only have one for sure then that's it, beat those effers !!!

D. Because all of the above could become possible every year.

I would go with A since that includes a win over Michigan at night, on prime time,
with lots of recruits in attendance---which could very well get us D as a result.

It would mean seven wins (if you include Miami), so all we need do to get to 10
is to beat Navy in Dublin, BC in Boston (both doable) and pull the upset at
Oklahoma.

Under this scenario, the only losses would be at MSU and USC.

I can live with that at 10-2, excellent recruiting, and a real step up to
2013 (when we get MSU and USC at home).

I took the most guaranteed wins so being unbeaten at home.

I love hypotheticals. And this is a good one. Not one of them is easily discarded.

I would like to first know when we were undefeated at home. I remember Holtz talking in 1986 about reestablishing home field. And look what happened. Getting those 3 would also go a long way to seeing to that goal. Throw in a top flight WR and CB and it SHOULD happen.

I will first discard the win over USC. Not letting them have it naturally, but I feel the other three accomplish short term goals as well as long term ones. The two games most highlighted on my schedule are Stanford and Michigan. We're 0-Kelly there and 0-our last 6. They are both at home and both beatable. Get those games and you keep those type of recruits in "D" and even attract Doug Randolph, maybe Anzalone and the top flight WR and CB we crave.

I guess Im talking myself into the original thought, undefeated at home.

definitely C, i cant stand the michigan and msu fans. plus if we sweep UM and MSU, that means we have a better chance at a pretty good record

I would like to beat Michigan, Oklahoma, and Miami and if it takes losing to Michigan St. and USC to go 10-2 and land Green, Smith, and Rochell, i'm good with that. I pick D. and next year we beat everyone.