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I guess we are waiting until after the Super Bowl now. I really hope Golden accepts. Can’t hurt having a Super Bowl coach joining the staff.

You have to be honest here and see how it’s more one side personally attacking and disrespecting others then just difference of opinions. It’s not like this just started when Kelly left.

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I just don’t get how anyone could think those were a good idea. There is not taking yourself to serious and on the other end looking like an utter and complete tool.This is definitely the later.

Always appreciate your insight and great write up. I am still hoping Angeli shocks the world and becomes the shocking come from no where All-American we need. I love the under dog with a chip on his shoulder. Also besides the obvious holes, that we all have discussed ad nauseam, I think ND has lacked getting that truly dominant Nose Tackle that just makes it next to impossible to run up the gut or get that short yardage for a few years now. I would really like to see them make that a priority. If we had someone up the middle that demanded double teams our ends would be next world.

I love the NIL value next to each player in the transfer portal rankings. That is so awesome. Why would they include that. What does that do for fans at all except just breed contempt for the players. WTF LMAO

You are talking about ethics there my man. There is no room for ethics in 'Merica. It's all about the mighty dollar and getting as many of them as you can and taking as many of them from others as you can. How do you think Bezos, Buffet, and Musk got so much. It wasn't thinking about should I do this or that it was just asking how do I get that other guys money into my pocket. This is the home of free market Capitalism at its finest. Sorry you guys can poop all over this post. I just couldn't resist.

I really hope you guys are right about Morrison because news about Mickey is he is FAST. That would be a pretty sweet duo at CB. The best in a few years if not longer.

Adams ran through some tackles for sure. Especially since he never quite learned to lower his pad level, but there was plenty of times where he would get hit at the line and keep on trucking. That running game was dominant. I believe that was the BVG days though. It's crazy for the past 20 years we have an amazing offense and dumpster fire defense or amazing defense and a train wreck of an offense never can quite put the 2 together in 1 year.

Of course the media is always going to romanticize the sport, that is their job. The only reason the 4 horseman are anything is because of a romanticized article. The game that made them famous was actually dreadfully boring. The article was actually more entertaining than watching the game, but in the end it has added to the lore of ND football. Look at Rudy, the overwhelming majority of his story was actually him sitting on his arse studying, but you cant make that into a book or movie. There is nothing wrong with romanticizing. Just like Knute's famous win one for the Gipper speech which is really kind of bland, but it's the media's job to sell the sport so they will try to take any angle to make things more exciting. Nothing wrong with that. To truly succeed at anything in life tends to be boring and a little lonely. You need a little fantasy to get through those times or we would all want to kill ourselves or make everybody's life miserable. Maybe you need a little more fantasy in your life Elder to lift those spirits a little higher.

That line and Josh Adams were so much fun to watch. That offense should have been unstoppable. I love having Harry back and hope the Olinemen can step to the expectations we all have for them now. With the talent and coaches I am looking forward to giant holes for our backs to run through.

ND should be able to nab 5 Star to high 4 star QBs every year. Kelly did a decent job of bringing in a high 4 star every other year but failed miserably at developing them. I was against Tommy being promoted to OC, I was even against him being hired as a QB coach but that was purely because of his inexperience and nothing else. I didn’t think a coach should be hired at ND for his first job as a QB coach or OC. Rees is no longer inexperienced. He has proven to be a pretty damn good game day coach. I would like to see how he does developing the QBs and recruiting them now that he doesn’t have Kelly around anymore. Kelly always seemed to get into the heads of his QBs and they either would regress or plateau. I’m hoping Rees can change this. Also with Freeman demanding more on the recruiting trail I want to see what Rees can bring. I will end on this if he doesn’t get one of the top recruits this cycle and Buchner doesn’t take big steps forward I would be on board as to questioning whether ND should go in another direction.

The Green Bay Packers are not the best example as they are the only team not privately owned. They are actually owned by the city. I don't have to time to go through your article but the team has to be at least making ends meet as I cant see the city subsidizing the team. I could totally be wrong but Green Bay is a small town and I really cant see the people being able to afford that. Again I am only assuming right now. I have not done research.

Transfers will definitely be coming and going. I'd expect at least 2 - 3 coming in and maybe even 5 going out come the end of Spring practice

My bad y’all. My bad

You honestly think that Kavanaugh is alone in that position? At a minimum, the 3 Democrat appointed justices would join him. I was going by the one article listing who said/wrote what. I do not presume anything. I never said that they couldn't balance it. What I said was that non-athlete students would pay the price. Academic quality will inevitably go down as only rich students will be able to afford the ridiculous tuition that will be needed to finance a professional sports team that serves as a weekday host to some undergraduate classes in its auxiliary buildings. I was not putting words in your mouth or trying to insinuate you meant anything just trying to articulate my opinion on the matter. I still do not see why the university could not keep academic standards and support the students the same exact way it is now with out raising tuition any more than they already would. Pro teams pay all the salaries, create facilities, and everything else needed to support a football team and make extraordinary profits. Why would ND be any different with those profits being funneled right back into the school. The NCAA isn't stopping anyone from earning a fair market value for their skills. The NFL's 3 years out of HS rule is what is. I was only commenting on Kavanaugh's statement wasn't trying to extrapolate anything else. Maybe Kavanaugh wasn't talking about the NCAA but actually the NFL's policy. Maybe you should write to Kavanaugh and let him know its not the NCAA's fault it's the NFL's fault. All that is beyond what I can say. Your point is valid that the NFL's rule is possibly unconstitutional because it is preventing people from earning their fair market value, but what about those kids that still wouldn't be drafted or signed to a NFL team. They would still go to college and the NCAA would still be preventing them from earning their fair market value.

You could have made your point without your first sentence because he is not wrong. There are plenty of kids that come from small high schools that succeed and excel at the collegiate and pro level. Some guys want to transfer to IMG and other top high school programs for more exposure and better presumed coaching and others don't, but the point that kids from small high schools can be great players is undebatable. It happens all the time.

No to mention his tenacity. He is one determined kid. He should excel at ND if he brings that effort to all he does. Definitely one of my favorites in the class.

It 100% could be semantics. I am just going by what was reported by well established ND reporters who said Heacock was offered the position and for whatever reason in the end turned it down. That's it. NDHoosier decided to make it a pissing contest for some reason. The fact is that the reason we don't currently have a DC is because Freeman's first choice declined the offer ,or whatever you want to call it, for whatever reason. With all that said I really hope he lands Al Golden. I think he could do a heck of a job and has former head coaching experience which I don't believe anyone else on the current staff has.

Not that I don't agree with Kavanaugh's opinion, but he is one man. Also, the money brought in by ND's athletic department would still be able to pay the salaries of the players if that is the way college sports would go. There would still be market principles at hand. Schools would have to choose what is more important to them, but at ND the cost of paying players could definitely be accomplished without compromising the schools academic goals. I still think we are far from actually having universities pay players salaries. Kavanaugh was just saying that the NCAA couldn't stop people from earning a fair market value for their skills. That market would still have to be defined. At some schools they could only be willing to pay the cost of tuition and room and board. At other schools maybe they are willing to pay a salary. Maybe some schools will decide that they want to split off from the other schools that are actually paying salaries. There are so many what ifs right now. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens. I still don't see any schools or the NCAA talking about allowing direct payments to kids as of yet.

Very smart choice on her part. She sounds like a person that probably would have been accepted to the school without her athletic ability and on her academic ability alone. Many athletes use their athletic gifts to gain acceptance to schools they might not have had a chance to get into without their participation in a sport. (My statement is very generalized and there are also many athletes that have the grades and wherewithal to gain acceptance without their extracurricular)

I was hoping for a couple more too, RB, WR, CB, any late bloomers that ND could convince. Hopefully they are looking at the portal and maybe they want to go with experience over potential.

Already did. Look at my previous responses.

Damn you really stuck on that pessimism word. By the way I’m not trying to win the board. There are plenty of sources that have confirmed what I typed. I actually named them. Name your sources. Peace be with you and again I hope we get Golden. Freeman’s second choice.😂

I see both these points and believe both are valid and accurate. Football players and athletes will benefit from their athletic prowess just by being let into institutions they would otherwise have no chance of ever attending based on academic achievement alone. Now also those same institutions will take advantage of those same athletes to bring in financial wind falls, and care not whether those athletes actually get an education of any kind as long as they win or at least perform as expected. Those same athletes can also benefit from just the act of being athletes at those schools and getting a piece of paper which might actually mean nothing as far what they actually learned at the school but just the fact they were an athlete and graduating from said school will open up opportunities they would otherwise never have had. I do believe the access the athletes gain in this situation is still at a major disadvantage compared to what the institutions reap in benefits. Also the advantages these kids gain are not evenly distributed for all athletes and leaves a large amount of these kids undereducated and with no actionable job skills. In conclusion many kids definitely get opportunities they would never have qualified for or even been able to afford. On the other hand many of these kids get used up by those institutions with absolutely nothing to show for it but a broken down body and piece of paper that is worthless as far as actually proving they know something. It’s hard to say what the best resolution is in order to make sure that as many young people are properly educated and give opportunities to those that probably never have the chance to meet what would be considered academic success at those secondary institutions.