Andy
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I dislike Central Michigan probably far more than any mid-major program should be disliked by anyone. Raisin, if your Bruins play them in a bowl (and they have a good shot at doing so) please eviscerate them.
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That reminds me that I need to go find that autograph I got from him on a napkin while at one of those ballpit places when I was a kid so I can set fire to it. I may need some background info on Jon's hatred of Harbaugh.
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I don't think Gill gets hired anywhere this year. Buffalo sucked in 09 so the shine is off him a bit right now.
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Yeah, I've read at least one other report that ND hasn't contacted Edsall, and there's no way in hell they're looking at Skip Holtz. These 'sources' are probably random people that came up with 3 names that ND could plausibly look at.
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That was incredibly stupid inbounding. You've got almost 5 seconds! No need to pinwheel the ball to halfcourt like that.
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Ball State lost to Butler tonight 58-38. The Cardinals haven't scored that few in a very long time - not sure how long but at least 50 years. The game was pretty much over 5 minutes in as Butler hit 5 threes in the first few minutes to go up 16-4.
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Is the ACC as territorial about this challenge as Big Ten fans are? (Honest question.)
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In the land of teams playing garbage OOC games, Luke Harangody became the first ND player ever with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in his career tonight, passing Troy Murphy on the ND scoring list while he was at it. ND beat Idaho State in a more-lopsided-than-it-looked 80-70 game (were up 20 with 2 mins left).
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Huger than huge. Lack of difference-makers on the defensive line has probably been the biggest hole in ND recruiting this decade as Justin Tuck was the only really good one the Irish have had to my memory. Let's hope that commitment holds. He silently committed to Weis. But he didn't go public today so that he could publicly de-commit. Yeah, I'm not too worried about a guy who's going public with a commitment one day into the school being coachless.
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Huger than huge. Lack of difference-makers on the defensive line has probably been the biggest hole in ND recruiting this decade as Justin Tuck was the only really good one the Irish have had to my memory. Let's hope that commitment holds.
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Stoops said he "intends" to stay at OU. Reading the transcript of that interview, he certainly does not come off authoritative, and he's given the opportunity by a reporter to directly say he's not going anywhere and instead kind of dances around the question. If he wanted to shut people up (including ND), here's the statement he could make: That paragraph would get people off his back, and that paragraph is what he's not saying. This isn't to call him a liar or say I believe he's on the edge of coming to ND or anything (I certainly believe he hasn't had any direct contact with anyone at ND right now), I just am skeptical that this is over. Also to note: The Tulsa World reported early this morning that OU would be releasing a statement later 'this morning' to further debunk the latest rumors. It's 3 pm in Oklahoma and nothing new's come out yet. Seen this yet? Schefter was wrong on his original report, so I should believe he's right now? He also said that Gary Patterson would be in the mix for the ND job about a half-hour before Patterson signed an extension with TCU.
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Stoops said he "intends" to stay at OU. Reading the transcript of that interview, he certainly does not come off authoritative, and he's given the opportunity by a reporter to directly say he's not going anywhere and instead kind of dances around the question. If he wanted to shut people up (including ND), here's the statement he could make: That paragraph would get people off his back, and that paragraph is what he's not saying. This isn't to call him a liar or say I believe he's on the edge of coming to ND or anything (I certainly believe he hasn't had any direct contact with anyone at ND right now), I just am skeptical that this is over. Also to note: The Tulsa World reported early this morning that OU would be releasing a statement later 'this morning' to further debunk the latest rumors. It's 3 pm in Oklahoma and nothing new's come out yet.
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I don't wholeheartedly disagree with you. I'm just a bitter fan of a 4-7 team. :)
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Yeah I think they're definitely the two most complete teams. I'm not entirely sure what the Vikings have done to distinguish themselves from the Colts. Showed up before the 3rd quarter in any game played in the last month.
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I didn't say there were. The implication in my post was that Bob Stoops isn't the perfect candidate. No one's the perfect candidate. Stoops is the best in my eyes - of people that haven't out and out denied interest.
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There's nothing clearly wrong with Kelly. But Stoops would be a home-run hire as opposed to Kelly's solid down-the-line double. JMO. Was Urban Meyer a solid down-the-line double for Florida? Was Dan Hawkins for Colorado? Was Steve Kragthorpe for Louisville? Well, how would you determine Stoops would be a home-run hire given the challenges at Notre Dame that aren't present at Oklahoma currently? And Kelly is a better candidate with a better resume than Kragthorpe coming out of Tulsa. So now there are those challenges at Cincinnati? Bottom line, if you're picking a coach for your football program and your choices are national champion, 9 and 10 win seasons like clockwork at a Tier 1 school that was garbage before you got there vs. guy who's won at every level so far but hasn't been in the big-time yet, you'd be crazy to pick the 2nd one unless he was like 15 years younger. And he's not.
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To clarify, I'm not trashing Kelly. There's nothing wrong with him and any program that gets him, if anyone does, can and should be optimistic. He's just not the guy I want first, not when there's a national championship-winning coach who may or may not be picking up the phone. I feel bad for Stoops, BTW. He's about to deny his 3rd going-to-ND rumor in the last 20 hours.
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There's nothing clearly wrong with Kelly. But Stoops would be a home-run hire as opposed to Kelly's solid down-the-line double. JMO. Was Urban Meyer a solid down-the-line double for Florida? Was Dan Hawkins for Colorado? Was Steve Kragthorpe for Louisville?
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Patterson at TCU just signed an extension, with rumor being that Kelly is working on one. My friend in the office just joked that it's funny how no one was signing extensions last week when Notre Dame had a coach.
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I think it's assume whichever of Iowa/PSU doesn't get a BCS gets the CapOne. makes sense. CapOne gets, what, a 4th place SEC team this year? (with Bama/Florida in the BCS and LSU in the Cotton)? Ole Miss is going to the Cotton vs Oklahoma State. LSU will probably end up in the CapOne.
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Really? I don't watch ND more than 3 times a year and am not that familiar with their defensive personnel. But the guy was an extremely successful DC whom Notre Dame fans were thrilled to hire. He took a reasonably talented defense and made them look absolutely stupid, week in and week out. Kyle McCarthy, Manti Te'o, Raeshon McNeil, Robert Blanton, Ethan Johnson, Kapron Lewis-Moore...these aren't world-beating names, but they sure as hell aren't members of a group that should rank in the bottom third of FBS defenses and manage to lose 4 different games in which ND scores 27 points or more. And yes, I was thrilled to get him too. Mea culpa.
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As good as Jimmy Clausen is, he will leave ND without a winning regular season. Which can be blamed entirely on Jon Tenuta, the single worst assistant Notre Dame has had in my conscious life.
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Here's to the Saints starting 15-0 and the Colts losing a game so that NBC flexes us into Sunday night so the entire country can watch my Panthers get defenestrated.
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There's nothing clearly wrong with Kelly. But Stoops would be a home-run hire as opposed to Kelly's solid down-the-line double. JMO.
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Why? Stoops has a title ring. He's been to like half the national title games since the BCS was instituted. He has coached 2 QBs, 1 of whom clearly didn't have pro-football chops, to a Heisman Trophy, almost coached AD to a 3rd, and until this injury-riddled year had done nothing but pile up 9 and 10-win seasons. And he's done all that at one of the top-tier programs. His resume is top notch but I think you have to temper it with the fact that Oklahoma didn't really deserve to be in any of the last three BCS title games Stoops took them to. On top of that he didn't win any of them and they weren't especially competitive games either. There's two other BCS losses in that time frame and he's lost 4 out of the last 5 against Texas. At this point, I'll worry about winning the big games when we can get to them. Stoops has shown he can get to them. And how did Oklahoma not deserve their bid in the 04 BCS title game? They were a clear #2 behind USC. They were ranked #1 the time before that (sketchy perhaps, but still).
