Bobref

I acknowledge that webcasts are the wave of the future. I can’t help but think it will detract significantly from the in-stadium atmosphere. I have been going to high school football games for over 50 years. One of the greatest aspects of the whole experience is the energy generated by a supportive crowd cheering their team on. Really sorry to see that going away. But I see it as an inevitable consequence of the increasing broadcast coverage.

One of the few returning OL has entered the transfer portal. Reading between the lines, the message here is that those young offensive linemen like Spindler and Fisher are pushing the veterans. Very optimistic about what this OL group is going to be by about Week 4 of the season. https://www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-dillan-gibbons-to-transfer-out-of-program BREAKING: OL Dillan Gibbons To Transfer Out Of Notre Dame Notre Dame fifth-year senior offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons has entered the transfer portal and is leaving the program BRYAN DRISKELL 21 HOURS AGO Notre Dame veteran offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons has entered the transfer portal and is leaving the Fighting Irish program. In Notre Dame's 42-26 October victory over Florida State, left tackle Liam Eichenberg got knocked out for a period with an eye injury. Gibbons stepped into the lineup and performed well. He got his first career start in Notre Dame's 45-21 regular season ending win over Syracuse, and again he performed admirably. Gibbons entered the spring as one of just three players with a start under his belt, and he began the spring as the first-team left guard. Early on the staff began moving him back-and-forth from guard to center, and by the end of spring he was spending more time at center. With Zeke Correll now locked in as the starter, the role for Gibbons went from competing for a starting spot at guard to battling to be a backup at center. Holding onto the starting role was always going to be a challenge for Gibbons due to the presence of up-and-coming junior Andrew Kristofic and talented true freshman Rocco Spindler. About midway through the spring Spindler stepped into the first-team role at left guard, and he enters the offseason as the leader in the clubhouse to win a starting job, leaving Gibbons relegated to a backup role. Gibbons will look to find a program where he'll have a chance to start. Due to the Covid-19 eligibility decisions, Gibbons technically could get a sixth-season of eligibility. The loss of Gibbons saps the offensive line of one of its most experienced player, but barring no other departures the unit still has a lot of depth and talent as it heads into a very important offseason. Gibbons becomes the ninth Notre Dame player to leave the program since the end of the 2020 season, and the second since the end of the spring. RB Jafar Armstrong (Illinois) WR Kendall Abdur-Rahman (Western Kentucky) WR Micah Jones (Illinois State) WR Jordan Johnson OL Colin Grunhard (Kansas) DE Ovie Oghoufo (Texas) LB Jack Lamb (Colorado) CB Isaiah Rutherford (Arizona) A 10th player - running back Jahmir Smith - left the program during the season. He announced his transfer to Appalachian State in February.

A party to a lease, like any contract, always has the option to choose not to perform. Prudent parties with competent lawyers address the consequences of that choice in the contract provisions. So, can the Bears get out of their lease to play somewhere else? Absolutely. But the real question is what are the economic consequences of breaching the lease? Caveat: The NFL may have rules about how their franchisees deal with landlords, and that might affect such decisions.

Good luck with that in today’s PC climate ... something I know is a particular sore spot with you.

Morton has been a big fish in a small pond ever since Roy Richards and Hammond’s open enrollment policy combined to attract some really fine athletes to that program. It’ll be great to see if they can take it to the next level.

Absolutely.

Lakers, Steelhead, all nice, but there’s nothing distinctive about them. Hammond Central Migratory Rainbow Trout has a nice ring to it.

No, but I think the term “some wanna be scrub from Rensselaer” might be considered a “knock” (and pretty rude), everywhere except Rensselaer, of course.

So, it’s the actual nickname they chose you don’t like, as opposed to the fact that they went away from “Wildcats?”

What’s the big deal? New school, new nickname. Same thing happened when Elston and Rogers consolidated in Michigan City. Ditto for Central and Memorial in Elkhart. Nothing to see here. Move along.

The inmates are running the asylum.

I have a certain level of confidence in the offensive line based both on past performance, as well as the glowing reports coming out of Spring ball on the two soon-to-be sophomores Rocco Spindler and Blake Fisher. Coan will almost certainly be the QB starter in Game 1. But he is just a bridge to the Chosen One — Tyler Buchner — who was impressive in the Blue-Gold Game. Here’s one account of his play: Early enrollee freshman quarterback Tyler Buchner played the second half — free of a red no-contact jersey and fully unleashed — and captured the imaginations of Irish fans across the country. He was 6-for-9 for 140 yards with a rushing touchdown. He led both touchdown drives in a 17-3 Blue victory. Look for Buchner to get some snaps early, and if the Irish falter out of the gate, anything is possible.

The Court heard oral argument in this case on April 28. Here’s one synopsis of the argument. B.L.’s attorney described the school’s proposed approach of extending Tinker to certain online conduct outside of school as using a “blunt instrument” that would effectively become a rule (rather than an exception) limiting First Amendment rights of public school students throughout the country. In contrast, the school district’s attorney characterized B.L.’s proposed approach as “Frankenstein’s monster of First Amendment doctrine” as lower courts would be forced to determine whether Tinkerapplied to a particular speech and, if not, apply traditional strict First Amendment doctrine to students with additional considerations in light of each student’s “youth and context.” What This Means to You As the National School Boards Association noted in a friend of the court brief, the Mahanoy question is especially important for school districts across the country because of students’ frequent use of social media. This becomes even more critical when assessing a school districts ability to respond to bullying that takes place online while away from school grounds. The Justices were carefully considering this possibility, with hypotheticals presented by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan speculating that, without applying Tinker to such online speech, a school district’s desire to respond to many occasions of student bullying likely would not reach the level of an ordinary First Amendment exception. The Supreme Court’s decision, expected later this year, will provide some guidance for public school administrators on how free speech affects their ability to respond to online student speech. The oral arguments last week suggested, however, that the Justices may settle on a narrow ruling in this difficult case in order to avoid “writing a treatise” with broad implications for other situations.

The sight of American soldiers carrying M-1 rifles loaded with live ammo and fixed bayonets confronting college protestors on a college campus still turns my stomach ... 51 years later. It’s impossible to explain what those times were like to someone who didn’t live through it. https://youtu.be/JCS-g3HwXdc

Yes, there have been other instances. This one hit close to home. Many of my friends from St. Ed’s went to Kent State, and were there that day.

Please. I know it was a long time ago. Many, if not most of you reading this were not even alive then. But we must never forget what happens when a government turns on its own citizens. Don’t let what happened that day pass from our collective memory and become simply an historical footnote.

Agree 100%. That’s why I was so surprised when this stuff surfaced at this time. But his “leaked” remarks about his disappointment in the organization were made on the 1 yr. anniversary of the drafting of Jordan Love. Hard to believe that could be just coincidence.

Perception becomes reality. Rodgers believes he was humiliated ... even if that’s unreasonable, and no one else feels that way. Just another demonstration of his “snowflakeness.”

I agree with you ... except that just because you play one less game doesn’t mean the path is always going to be easier. And you could plug in that “if you’re good enough” in front of just about anything, so it’s essentially meaningless. ”If you’re good enough, it won’t matter that they have twice your enrollment ...” ”If you’re good enough, it won’t matter that your starting QB is hurt...” ”If you’re good enough, it won’t matter that your schedule has you playing the Little Sisters of the Poor every week...” ”If you’re good enough, it won’t matter that you had a 3 hr. bus ride to get here...”

Let the criticism/conspiracy theorizing commence!

😂🤣😅 It’s all relative. To paraphrase that antihistamine commercial, 8 is better than 1.

In the end, when you strip away the Jeopardy hosting, the swimsuit models, race car drivers and actresses, and the State Farm commercials, Aa-Ron is, and will always be, an a$$hat.

Small sample size, but we work with what we’ve got.

I would phrase it slightly differently, by saying that enrollment, socioeconomic status, coaching, and other factors can confer a significant advantage on those programs able and willing to utilize them. Not everyone is.

Football is a very complex endeavor. There are so many moving parts, so many factors that determine the degree of success a program has. Naturally, we’d like it to be something simple and objective, like enrollment or % of reduced fee lunches. But it is never that simple. Many, many of the factors are both subjective and incapable of being quantified. That’s why it is so difficult to predict outcomes — or identify which factors a successful team exploited to greatest advantage. If there was a simple recipe, everyone would be using it.