Andy

I think ND is probably mad that 1) Jones completely deserted them. It's not that he transferred, he just left without a word and held up the team before a game. 2) NIU was probably guilty of tampering. The fact that he was not known to have been transferring on Friday afternoon (even to the team or the university), and then suddenly he enrolls at NIU Friday night? They almost certainly contacted him before he declared his inent to transfer, which is against the rules. At the same time, Jones is a young kid. ND is a university and should know better than to fire back at a kid. Just be the bigger party in this ND and let him go to NIU, don't make it more messy then he already made it. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they are going to do that. But Novak is 90% likely to retire after this year. So why on earth would he tamper with Jones when he's not even going to coach him? And yeah, I realize NIU is out of scholarships this year. But don't you think it's weird that ND doesn't even put NIU on that list? They know he's at NIU. Yeah, Jones probably didn't do this in the best way. But ND has to be guilty of handling this in just as bad of a way, if not worse. Why the eff are they guilty of anything? Jones is the one that randomly zipped out of school, presumably after hearing that Clausen had been No. 1 on the depth chart entering summer practice pre-elbow procedure (from the Mr. Obvious report - I suppose Jones is the only one that didn't know that the procedure is the only reason there was a competition in the first place). All Notre Dame did was watch him skip out. I fail to see what they did wrong other than recruit this dope in the 1st place.

I think ND is probably mad that 1) Jones completely deserted them. It's not that he transferred, he just left without a word and held up the team before a game. 2) NIU was probably guilty of tampering. The fact that he was not known to have been transferring on Friday afternoon (even to the team or the university), and then suddenly he enrolls at NIU Friday night? They almost certainly contacted him before he declared his inent to transfer, which is against the rules. At the same time, Jones is a young kid. ND is a university and should know better than to fire back at a kid. Just be the bigger party in this ND and let him go to NIU, don't make it more messy then he already made it. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they are going to do that. He enrolled midweek, not even Friday. He was already enrolled at the school when he left the team bus, and probably went to at least 2 practices while already enrolled at NIU. There is definitely something fishy here.

What the media is not reporting is that NIU has no scholarships available. The Huskies couldn't give him one if they wanted to, so letting him out or not is pretty much a nonissue. But the media loves Notre Dame, don't let facts and omissions persuade you otherwise.

I know this is way off and unlikely, but I want no part of any WS07 logo if the Cubs freeze hell over and win. I don't like that new development in uniforms.

How the hell are we in first?

The '9 games left' thread.

The homes are impossibly lame. And the shade of blue isn't very good.

Miami 31, Texas A&M 3. Big 12 = still the Big 12...

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200409300.shtml One of them was. But we had already screwed the pooch pretty bad by that point. God, that was a miserable game. I was following it on Gamecast in the library (MLB TV wasn't working for me that day for some reason, making me all the more frustrated/furious). I saw the score of this game in the bottom of the 8th in the news studio here (it's really hard to believe I've been here that long) and reached new levels of pissed off that we wasted such a ridiculously good game from Prior. It might be the best one he's ever pitched.

Alright, I won't be around at that time, so I told a friend of mine to go in for Game 4 tickets. Please let this happen.

Oh my god, I was kidding when I made a post on a Cards board that they'd bench Pujols against Milwaukee.

2 GS, 1-0, 12.1 IP, 3 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 8 K, 1.46 ERA, 1.22 WHIP. So, yeah, just a little bit.

WSU/USC is at LA, I don't think this game is going to be close. I know this, I'd just rather watch USC than Wisconsin

Absolutely a good move. Marquis is easily the best of the 3 righthanders in the rotation in the last few weeks.

Against 3 lefties? Maybe knocking back a few too many after long days in the athletic office?

BTW, living in the Midwest isn't cool this week - we get Iowa/Wisco instead of Wazzu/USC

Ball State isn't a gimme this year. I'll be there at our games against both UI and IU, so I hope we can steal one of those. The Navy win last week was electric.

And he's on my fantasy team. ND and UCLA...double whammy. Yeah, the way things are going I don't know how either team is going to win October 6th. C'mon Stros

Sorry guys, Lidge went to ND that was pretty much inevitable

Back in 1st? :D

Yeah, no changes if the right call is made. No big deal. Put it away Aramis.

Pleaaaaaasssssseeeeee don't mess up Murton.

Screw Floyd, DWard should bat here.

Why anyone ever runs on him...beyond me. Amazing throw. Again.

What the hell is it with Hopper and us? Now we can't even field the ball.