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Wasn't missing this one for the world....just a Christmas dinner with the in-laws. Whoops 😄

nah....30 years in coaching in multiple programs, 35 years in education.... Experience is a great teacher.

IU had an incredible season and no IU fan should be overly disappointed with the loss. ND is just a better / deeper team. Coach Cig has IU going in the right direction and IU fans have lots to look forward to for football season for a change.

Ohio State will bring significantly more fans than Oregon to the Rose Bowl Jan 1. Nobody in the country travels better than Ohio State. They've already played once this year at Oregon where OSU lost by a point on a questionable OPI. Ohio State is the most talented team in the country, if the coaching staff takes off the training wheels they are the toughest out in the field.

What an atmosphere Friday but my health took the worst hit lol, haven't been this sick in awhile standing out in the cold all day/night. Congrats to the Irish, they controlled the LOS and were a vastly superior team. Disappointed with Coach Cignetti and the gameplan. Can't talk all that crap and call a game like that. Rourke was never the same after that INT and refused to look over the middle until the game was out of hand. I thought pass pro in the first half was fine and Rourke just had happy feet. ND/Georgia should be war. Will say, Riley Leonard probably needs to take more shots downfield if ND is to have a chance. Won't be able to dink and dunk down the field like they did IU.

I think we’d all agree there can be a significant amount of variability in the manner of how young adults grow up and their current environments, which undoubtedly impact decision making. Not saying there shouldn’t be personal accountability, but I can understand how the short term gain may be felt as the best call at the time such decisions need to be made.

Numbers used in this analysis are based on 2022 unless noted. That 60-student drop, cost the school roughly $840,000, assuming that they all came from the Deanery, in just a single year. Logically, that's just the start. A kid that you would deny in their freshman year, for whatever reason, likely doesn't apply again in his sophomore year or junior year or senior year. So any of those freshman that wouldn't be admitted would be around $64,000 lost over a four-year span. If only half of the kids that were "kept out" were freshman, you're talking about a loss of just under $2 million over a four-year period. All total, assuming you cut 60 and 30 were in the freshman admittance, you're talking about $2,280,000 for a single year cut of 60 students plus ongoing fallout. For a 1A title in football? I'm not seeing it. Mind you that this school won a 2A baseball title in the previous year and had a 2A boys soccer team that's won a dozen or so 2A sectionals in a row. Then there's an even BIGGER issue. Providence draws 299 of its 328, over 90%, from some 13 of its parishes. How long do you think Catholic schools last when they are keeping their own parishioners from attending? If Providence spent even a couple of years artificially blocking parishioners from entering, they would likely not be seeing an uptick as they would have poisoned their own well.

The way I look at it, since ND can never have a bye, a home game is the best we can hope for, seeding-wise.