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21 hours ago, US31 said:
I have no argument with that....
What I will argue with, however, is if Coach Freeman is let go for "not winning the big one"...even though he is graduating players at a very high rate. There have been a lot of good coaches shown the door at ND since Lou. Willingham, Weiss, and Kelly were good coaches....(I know Kelly left more or less on his terms, but his frustrations with the above discussion were well known, and were what lead him to leave...his goals are a National Champtionship.)
Again, I'm not disagreeing with anything you or other posters have said. Just pointing out that players and coaches who have realistic aspirations of winning a national title are likely to avoid ND. Players in the program may have changing priorites and choose to leave. This is the reality.
It would be interesting if the B1G, SEC, and Big12 choose to leave the NCAA in their dust and go completley separate in FB and MBB. Would ND choose to be the torchbearer in going back to a more traditional college athletics model...along with the leftovers of Div1?
Or do they want the money just as bad as everyone else?
You can win a national championship with the caliber and type of player ND typically recruits…trust me…😉
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Update from the MSM: “Oh wait, it wasn’t a planned mass shooting where the shooter has little pigment and wrote a manifesto but rather a dispute between two young men of color?”
“Let’s move on to another story.”
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9 hours ago, Muda69 said:
“White supremacy is our nation’s #1 threat.”
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10 hours ago, Bobref said:
I can’t take credit … if I was correct. I stole it from a post by @temptation, who posted that ND’s “ceiling” under the new plan was #5. Since he is the clearinghouse for all things potentially negative about Notre Dame, I trust his interpretation. 😉
I can’t even relate to a team that hasn’t won a national title in 36 years anymore.
Michigan hasn’t won one in 46…DAYS.
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3 hours ago, Muda69 said:
Sorry Notre Dame…the 5 seed is your ceiling.
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Lincoln Riley knows…
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2 hours ago, Gipper said:
I think after seeing Bama, UGA, and LSU rule the roost in the SEC for a few years, the Horns may want out.
I'm not sure LSU belongs in that group but I get your point.
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Cool to see Ben Davis’ Mark Zackery receive an offer from the Rose Bowl runners up yesterday.
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3 minutes ago, Irishman said:
And you still run the risk with conference championships of teams playing each other multiple times. Apply the upcoming season format to this past season. The possibility that Michigan and Ohio State playing each other 3 times in one season is not so far fetched. In the SEC, it could be Georgia and Alabama in the same boat.
Yep, and one thing that makes college football unique is the fact that every week matters.
That will be diminished in this new format also.
The NFL “world champions” lost 6 regular season contests…
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I am interested to see the approach on conference championship games now for two reasons.
1. It is impossible to fairly play a balanced schedule in the Big Ten specifically when you will only see half the conference in the regular season.
2. A team could actually be "punished" for playing in its conference championship game if it is sitting 9th or 10th in the second to last CFP rankings and loses, thus falling out of the top 11.
Big Ten needs to get to 20 and just do 4 divisions of 5. You play each of your divisional opponents once, plus two from each other division. Cut one non-con game and move the season up a week.
Four division winners play semis then, the two winners of those play for the conference championship.
Probably makes too much sense and would never happen.
East: Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Ohio State, Pittsburgh
West: USC, Oregon, Washington, UCLA, Nebraska
Central: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois
Midwest: Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue
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38 minutes ago, First_Backer_Inside said:
They're just able to because they work harder than everyone else and pay for their own school lunch or something like that.
Don't forget "culture."
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17 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:
Should 2100 body schools play schools of 1000 kids in tournament play?
That was the #1 reason to split into 6 classes, the discrepancy of Carmel to Munster was 3k kids
So, the question is what is the most realistic top end to bottom end enrollment wise that keeps the schools in competitive classes?
I just did 5a into top 32 4a to show what that would look like
thats an awful lot of kid difference from Top to Bottom
I mean, "SOMEHOW" Cathedral does it right, lol?
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“Joe Biden does more in an hour than most people do in a day.”
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20 minutes ago, jets said:
After reading through this thread - I actually think I've come around to the idea that is should be the BIGGEST 32 in 6A and the smallest 32 in 1A - then split the rest as evenly as you can.
I think I could get on board with this. Too lazy, but can anyone outline what that would look like?
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1 minute ago, Coach Nowlin said:
Okay, let me ask you this @temptation still a publicity stunt if they get engaged in 2024? or still a couple 1-1-25? What a long game a Billionaire and Millionaire are playing
Eh, it'll likely end in a train wreck like most of Hollywood's romances.
Then she will write about the break-up in her next album.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Her batting average speaks for itself. Failed relationships have made her a ton of cash.
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14 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:
No debate most watched SB ever. It is king of the US market.
Super Bowl vs World Cup....SB has a ways to go even with 123 million viewers
https://www.statista.com/chart/16875/super-bowl-viewership-vs-world-cup-final/
ESPN leaving out details, imagine that. Good catch.
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2 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:
You forgot your TIN FOIL HAT to wear while posting
Nah. I'll place the odds at less than 50 percent this relationship lasts past 2024.
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2 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:
Literally EVERY SINGLE SUPER BOWL has had some sort of celebrity factor
But yes, lets have selective outrage because Taylor Swift has a boyfriend who is really good at playing football on back 2 back super bowl winning teams. Yes, thats the ticket of rage
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We all mad that Paul Rudd was on the field for the celebration?
https://people.com/super-bowl-2024-celebrities-in-the-stands-2024-8575768
Hey, I am not raged...I just called it out for what it is.
A publicity stunt intended to increase ratings.
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9 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:
US correct? I would doubt SB surpasses World Cup matches, especially the finals.
But I understand your comment
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11 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:
Nothing better than seeing a celebrity GF of a player jumping up and down every time her BF catches a 7 yd pass.....
I've been watching the NFL for a long time....not seen anything quite like this......
But hey, this won't last forever....glad that jackwagon is 34 years old....
Viva Las Vegas baby!
Highest rated sporting event ever...objective achieved.
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16 minutes ago, Boilernation said:
Honestly, I think all? I've seen a lot of pictures shared on Instagram with random players and their parents or WAGS on the field posing with the trophy.
If you say so, I just hope Mahomes' dad and brother behaved.
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8 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:
The whopping 30 some seconds was that crushing for you?
Literally every Super Bowl has cut aways to celebrities, etc. There is like only 18 actual minutes of actual football plays on any given NFL game.
Just sayings
Chiefs defensive improvements throughout the year was really something, Hats off to now 4 time Super Bowl winning coordinator Steve Spagnola, master class playoff run
How many times did they show the other celebrities in the crowd and how many of them were allowed on the field for the postgame celebration?
Hell, how many of the players n’ SPOUSES were permitted on the field during the trophy presentation?
Lets just call this what it is…
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On 2/8/2024 at 4:54 PM, swordfish said:
“At trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report says.
Holy Shnikies - This guy is our President........
WASHINGTON — President Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” special counsel Robert Hur found in a bombshell report released Thursday — though Hur recommended against criminal charges, in part because a jury might find Biden to be an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden, 81, flouted legal restrictions on sensitive documents throughout his 36 years in the Senate and eight years as vice president — stashing them in cardboard boxes in his garage in Wilmington, Del., and other locations, the 388-page report said, with photos showing Biden’s storage practices.
Investigators even uncovered a recording of Biden confiding in his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in April 2017 — after leaving office as vice president — that he still had official records because “I didn’t want to turn them in” — similar to former President Donald Trump, who faces 40 criminal charges and up to 450 years in prison for resisting handing over documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
Zwonitzer also told Hur’s investigators that he deleted some audio files of Biden after the special counsel investigation began — and was aware of the probe when he did so.
“I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation,” the writer said, according to the report.
Material mishandled by Biden implicated the nation’s most guarded secrets, the report said, with authorities finding “information in [recovered] notebooks [that] remains classified up to the Top Secret level and includes Sensitive Compartmented Information, including from compartments used to protect information concerning human intelligence sources.”
But perhaps most damangingly for the president, Hur — a former Maryland US attorney, — suggested that jurors would not hold Biden liable for his actions on account of his perceived mental decline, even though he is seeking a second four-year term in November.
“At trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report says.
When Biden sat for questions with Hur’s investigators over two days in October, he presented himself as confused on many points — though the White House has regularly maintained he is mentally fit for office despite similar public errors.
Biden “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report says.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died [May 2015]. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving [2009] memo to President Obama.”
Although Biden’s lapse of memory may be useful for avoiding criminal liability, it is likely to be a serious political problem, as national polls already show large majorities of voters believe he is too old, infirm, or both to hold office.”If you’re too senile to stand trial, then you’re too senile to be president,” said Alex Pfeiffer, spokesman for the pro-Trump Make America Great Again PAC.
Trump himself fumed about what he called a double standard.
“THIS HAS NOW PROVEN TO BE A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL SELECTIVE PROSECUTION!” the 77-year-old wrote on Truth Social.
“The Biden Documents Case is 100 times different and more severe than mine. I did nothing wrong, and I cooperated far more. What Biden did is outrageously criminal – He had 50 years of documents, 50 times more than I had, and ‘WILLFULLY RETAINED’ them. I was covered by the Presidential Records Act, Secret Service was always around, and GSA delivered the documents. Deranged Jack Smith should drop this Case immediately. ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”
Biden said in his own paper statement: “This was an exhaustive investigation going back more than 40 years, even into the 1970s when I was a young Senator. I cooperated completely, threw up no roadblocks, and sought no delays”
“Over my career in public service, I have always worked to protect America’s security,” the president added. “I take these issues seriously and no one has ever questioned that.”
Hur, whose report was released by Congress after the White House declined to assert privilege of any of its contents, found that classified records hoarded by Biden included documents concerning military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, as well as notebooks with handwritten entries about national security and foreign policy issues “implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
According to the special counsel, Biden kept the documents to inform the writing of two memoirs published in 2007 and 2017, as well as “to document his legacy, and to cite as evidence that he was a man of presidential timber.”
“In a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, about a month after he left office, Mr. Biden said … that he had ‘just found all the classified stuff downstairs,'” the report noted.
Hur’s investigation into the 81-year-old president was notably quiet, with few leaks to the media — unlike the headline-grabbing probe of former President Donald Trump on similar grounds.
When taking note of evidence that “Biden knew he could not keep classified handwritten notes at home after leaving office,” Hur highlighted the president’s reaction to the classified document ordeal engulfing his predecessor.
Hur reported that Biden presented himself during the interview as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Sensitive records from Biden’s vice presidency and Senate tenure were stored without proper safeguards at his residence in Wilmington and at his pre-presidency office in DC provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
Hur’s investigation into the president was notably quiet, with few leaks to the media — unlike the headline-grabbing probe of Trump on similar grounds.
When taking note of evidence that “Biden knew he could not keep classified handwritten notes at home after leaving office,” Hur highlighted the president’s reaction to the classified document ordeal engulfing his predecessor.
“Asked about reports that former President Trump had kept classified documents at his own home, Mr. Biden wondered how ‘anyone could be that irresponsible,’” the report archly noted.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to investigate Biden’s handling of records dating to his vice presidency and Senate years on Jan. 12 of last year — after sequential admissions of new discoveries by the White House.
Biden was interviewed by investigators in October — roughly a year after he chided Trump as “irresponsible” for retaining classified documents.
Biden’s lawyers said they initially found classified documents on Nov. 2 while clearing out his former office at the Penn Biden Center near Capitol Hill.
The discovery, six days before the midterm elections, was kept quiet until CBS News broke the story Jan. 9.
Additional Biden classified documents were found on Dec. 20 in his Wilmington garage, followed by a series of additional discoveries at the home, including by the FBI, which also searched Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Del., vacation home and left with written notes.
Biden sought to downplay the controversy, telling PBS last February, “To the best of my knowledge, the kind of things they picked up are things that — from 1974, stray papers.”
“There is no there there,” Biden told reporters last January.
Biden first publicly acknowledged the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center at a Jan. 10 press conference in Mexico City.
In his initial remarks, Biden didn’t say that a second cache of classified documents had been found in his Wilmington garage.
Biden admitted on Jan. 12 that records were found next to his classic Corvette in Wilmington, but denied he was reckless with the nation’s secrets.
“My Corvette is in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” Biden said.
The White House said at the time that searches for records were complete, but additional documents were found by Biden’s lawyers. An FBI search found six more items with classification markings.
Trump, 77, is seeking a rematch against Biden in the November election and has alleged a double standard.
The 45th president faces 40 criminal charges and a maximum penalty of 450 years in prison for allegedly mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm beach, Fla., to retrieve documents in August 2022 — just months before the revelation that Biden had stashed classified documents at various locations, including in his home garage, which lacked Secret Service protection for a period of time.
The ex-president allegedly hindered attempts by the National Archives to retrieve the documents, which he argued he was entitled to keep under the Presidential Records Act.
Takeaway: if you are three years younger and mentally competent, you can face serious felony charges…
If you are a senile, old man whom people feel sorry for…no charges necessary.
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Posted · Edited by temptation
Agree on most points, but player development is also key. ND simply isn't going to "out five star" the usual guys (Bama, OSU, UGA).
Counterpoint to your most important point though: Stetson Bennett was nowhere near 1st round QB talent.