Notre Dame Football 2015 Off-Season Preview: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

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presjacket said:
I think folks do that out of ignorance or laziness. I feel like Bees is a purposeful slur.
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My daddy was a beekeeper. I am offended. Bees are way better than pests like yellow jackets, dirt dobbers, carpenter bees and whatnot. You get stuff from them, after all. I do admit that "Georgia Tech Bees" does not have quite the polish, though. (Georgia Tech Dirt Dobbers would not be bad, though.)

But more seriously, the use of "bees" is just one of those writing tricks sometimes used to combat repetition. Has no other meaning really.
 
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Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau said:
We get two warm ups while they have to ignore the triple option prep facing Texas and UVA.
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I tend to have the counter worry. I do not want ND to slip up early due to looking over their shoulder at us.

Similarly, last year I thought before the season started we would beat VPI. I told several people on threads that I wanted VPI to be undefeated going into that game because if they lost an earlier game it make them much more determined against us and a harder team to beat.
 

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Northeast Stinger said:
I tend to have the counter worry. I do not want ND to slip up early due to looking over their shoulder at us.

Similarly, last year I thought before the season started we would beat VPI. I told several people on threads that I wanted VPI to be undefeated going into that game because if they lost an earlier game it make them much more determined against us and a harder team to beat.
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I want ND to lose every game they play before us and every game they play after us, into perpetuity. It's not that I don't like them or anything.
 

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Northeast Stinger said:
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Well, if they think bumble bee is diminishing yellow jacket, they ain't never been stung by a bumble bee, so they need to be careful of what they wish for. The yellow jacket sting is a mere pinprick in comparison. Have a memory from my youth of a friend who stumbled over a dead log and stirred up bumble bees, but it is too grisly to repeat.
 
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Skeptic said:
Well, if they think bumble bee is diminishing yellow jacket, they ain't never been stung by a bumble bee, so they need to be careful of what they wish for. The yellow jacket sting is a mere pinprick in comparison. Have a memory from my youth of a friend who stumbled over a dead log and stirred up bumble bees, but it is too grisly to repeat.
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I was puzzled because that was not my experience as a kid, but then I was not attacked by an entire hive of bumble bees.
I have a much worse reaction to yellow jackets. Their sting feels like hot coals on my skin and, unlike the bumblebee, the stinger stays in you and keeps working the poison deeper into the wound. I also find bumblebees to be very passive. As a kid I would sometimes catch them with my hands. Yellow jackets have stung me just because I walked too near their nest.

Anyway, I was just curious about your comment.
 

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Northeast Stinger said:
I was puzzled because that was not my experience as a kid, but then I was not attacked by an entire hive of bumble bees.
I have a much worse reaction to yellow jackets. Their sting feels like hot coals on my skin and, unlike the bumblebee, the stinger stays in you and keeps working the poison deeper into the wound. I also find bumblebees to be very passive. As a kid I would sometimes catch them with my hands. Yellow jackets have stung me just because I walked too near their nest.

Anyway, I was just curious about your comment.
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The great thing about growing up in the piney woods as the son of a beekeeper, and that is where he put his hives, is the lifetime immunity from all kinds of stings. Not that I seek them out, mind you. My friend was not so lucky.
 
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00Burdell said:
Good writeup. So the Citrus Bowl win doesn't count as a major bowl even though we were ranked #2 and Nebraska was ranked #13 going into it?
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Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
That is technically correct; the major bowls were traditionally the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Rose. The Cotton may have been replaced by the Fiesta by then; I don't remember the year in which that happened. An undeserving Notre Dame team got the Orange Bowl instead of number 2-ranked Tech.
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I think @Supersizethatorder-mutt is correct that the writer intended us to read major-bowl game and not major bowl-game. Fun fact, before 2009, our last major-bowl was 1967 (66 season) Orange Bowl. After 40 years, CPJ led us there twice (thank you auto tie-in rules).

Oh, and 2008 Groh screwed us by not beating VPI in the last week. I reckon 2008 and 2011 are ours without Groh. :mad:
 
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