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ESPN’s initial Football Power Index came out for the 2022 college season: Alabama Ohio State Georgia Clemson Notre Dame Texas Michigan Oklahoma Pitt Auburn Unsurprisingly, it’s pretty much “round up the usual suspects.” Irish currently scheduled to play 2 of the 4 teams ranked above them: Ohio State at the Shoe and Clemson at home.

Accuracy is one thing. Completeness is another. I strive to be both. You’re just miffed that Michigan didn’t do it first. Oh wait, isn’t Appalachian State an HBCU …?

And while you’re at it, GET OFF MY LAWN!!! 🤣😂

Let’s see, ND gets good pub. TSU specifically, and HBCUs in general, get exposure on a national stage they wouldn’t otherwise have + money + a recruiting boost (“look who/where we play”), Marcus Freeman & Eddie George manifest their friendship in a very productive way, do I need to go on? Sounds like a “win” all the way around. Why all the cynicism? Life is not always a zero sum game.

So, you’re saying Notre Dame should have been regularly scheduling FCS opponents? Gee, I wonder if folks like you would then be criticizing them for playing a soft schedule. You think?

Ask the National Federation. They put it in the rule book. Or ask the IHSAA. They’re the ones that direct us to enforce the rule. The rule had its origins back when people were wearing black strips under their eyes with messages on them (Tim Tebow), or used the eyeblack to paint symbols or signs on their faces. No doubt some of these were unsportsmanlike references to the opponent. So, the rule was created to standardize the use of eyeblack to its original purpose: to avoid light reflecting off the cheekbones which can affect vision. The rule as written allows that. As to why it is enforced more strictly in football, I can’t answer that. To be honest, I don’t even know what the baseball rule says.

They are going to make this a huge weekend long event, I bet. The e-mail I got from the University specifically mentioned the Tennessee State marching band, known as “The Aristocrat of Bands,” and they are really supposed to be something.

That’s like saying a surgeon and an executioner are the same. After all, they both cut off body parts from living people, don’t they? If you’re going to make the case that one group is being treated unfairly, the analysis should be a bit more in depth than what you’ve offered.

A teacher’s union is like any other large organization, be it a corporation, government, organized religion, etc. They all have, as their first principle, the perpetuation and prospering of the organization itself. All other purposes are subordinated to that one. There may be instances where that purpose and the “best interests of the kids” coincide, but it is just that: a coincidence.

The master of the cryptic comment — and everyone is supposed to somehow understand what he’s talking about.

The Irish will host Tennessee State in the 2023 opener, the first time ND has ever played an FCS school. Right now, Notre Dame is one of only 3 FBS schools that has never played an FCS team. This is all about ND providing a big stage for an HBCU school, and is the product of the friendship between 2 Ohio State alums, Marcus Freeman and Eddie George, the coach of Tennessee State. Going to be quite a big deal next year. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/notre-dame-football-schedule-irish-add-first-ever-fcs-opponent-will-face-tennessee-state-in-2023-opener/

Love that character. But remember, before Saul, there was this guy to show the way:

The only thing that makes any sense here is the description “totally stupid.”

Congratulations to Justice Jackson on her historic bipartisan confirmation as the first African American woman to sit on the Court. Now, let’s roll up the sleeves and get to work. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/senate-poised-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-rcna23283

In fairness, I suppose it’s theoretically possible for something to be both correct and gibberish. 🤣

Hey, no actual intellectual exercise allowed here. You’re only allowed to spout a bunch of slogans, catch-phrases, and other political-inspired gibberish. 😉

That will be a very difficult task as the Court is currently composed. Her votes are likely to be pretty similar to the Justice she replaced. So, all the “liberal” wing of the Court has done is exchange a pretty senior Justice for a rookie. Seniority means something on the Court.

You don’t have to be a lawyer — or particularly smart, for that matter — to see what’s going on here. In fairness, the Democrats were just as guilty during the confirmation hearings for Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett. But neither party is serving the interests of justice and good government with the disgraceful display of intellectual dishonesty and pandering that goes on during these hearings.

Congratulations.

Trickle down from college was inevitable. Your thoughts about Indiana facing the issue the way Ohio has?

Calling dogs “people” is not just crazy, it’s disrespectful… to dogs.

I thought this was an April Fool’s joke.

Isn’t he the guy who congratulated “Kansas City” on winning the championship last night, while handing Bill Self the trophy? 😂🤣😆

Seems that there are at least a few people willing to subordinate partisan politics to being faithful to the constitutional process. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/04/senate-vote-ketanji-brown-jackson/ Jackson on course for confirmation, with 2 more GOP senators in favor The Supreme Court nominee is now poised to win final approval by the end of the week By Mike DeBonis and Seung Min Kim The Senate put Ketanji Brown Jackson on a clear track to be confirmed later this week as the Supreme Court’s 116th justice — and its first Black woman — after three Republicans joined Democrats to advance her nomination in a Monday vote. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah become the second and third Republicans to announce support for Jackson, joining Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who publicly backed the judge last month. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus also backed Jackson in a 53-to-47 procedural vote Monday evening, but the late-breaking support of the two GOP senators represented a minor triumph for President Biden and congressional Democrats who were eager to put a bipartisan stamp of approval on a nominee whom many Republicans had eagerly painted as a soft-on-crime leftist radical. In a statement, Murkowski praised Jackson’s qualifications and temperament, as well as her “demonstrated judicial independence” and “the important perspective she would bring to the court” as a former Supreme Court law clerk, federal public defender, trial judge and now appeals court judge.

“Never” is a pretty broad statement.