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Gotta feel for the programs outside of the top tier. After a good year, you'll lose your coach to a bigger program with more resources, your best players to the portal, and now the talent pool to rebuild will be thinner as the Alabamas of the world can now take a flier on every 3* project they feel like taking.
 
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Riddickulous said:
Gotta feel for the programs outside of the top tier. After a good year, you'll lose your coach to a bigger program with more resources, your best players to the portal, and now the talent pool to rebuild will be thinner as the Alabamas of the world can now take a flier on every 3* project they feel like taking.
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As a part time, fair weather IU fan you have to wonder why anybody would get emotionally invested there.

Even if they turn things around and put something special together they will just get stripped for parts again and again. And IU's conference revenue is envied by 85% of the FBS.
 
stlnd01

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I don't really understand why the middleweights of the sport put up with this.
In any given conference, and across P5 - to say nothing of the NCAA as a whole - the IU's and Pittsburgh's of college football far outnumber the power megaprograms with unlimited budgets to hire away their coaches and NIL their best players and hoover up every scholarship athlete who's worth a damn.
Can they not just outvote Alabama and USC?
 
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stlnd01 said:
I don't really understand why the middleweights of the sport put up with this.
In any given conference, and across P5 - to say nothing of the NCAA as a whole - the IU's and Pittsburgh's of college football far outnumber the power megaprograms with unlimited budgets to hire away their coaches and NIL their best players and hoover up every scholarship athlete who's worth a damn.
Can they not just outvote Alabama and USC?
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The power megaprograms have electoral votes
 
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stlnd01 said:
I don't really understand why the middleweights of the sport put up with this.
In any given conference, and across P5 - to say nothing of the NCAA as a whole - the IU's and Pittsburgh's of college football far outnumber the power megaprograms with unlimited budgets to hire away their coaches and NIL their best players and hoover up every scholarship athlete who's worth a damn.
Can they not just outvote Alabama and USC?
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That's the point. Neither side will put up with the other and they will eventually split. It's just of matter of how long it takes.
 
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Sir, I've been told by Miami fans on many occasions that they are, in fact, the real "TE U" and ND is trash.
I did see in that thread that a Georgia fan seems to think they're going to overtake us in the next 3-4 years...like Mayer isn't going Day 1 next year and we're just going to quit developing the TE position.
 
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Bill Connelly's 2022 preview of the Independents (which naturally includes us) was just published. Anyone with an ESPN+ subscription willing to share the interesting bits here?
 
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IrishLion

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Whiskeyjack said:
Bill Connelly's 2022 preview of the Independents (which naturally includes us) was just published. Anyone with an ESPN+ subscription willing to share the interesting bits here?
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It was actually light on numbers.

ND projects at 8th overall. Offense and defense trend pretty much to where they were at last year.

His takeaway is the same as ours: the foundation is there to win 9 or 10 without breaking a sweat. If Buchner and a couple of skill guys can break out and take advantage of a seasoned OL (and provide Mayer some opportunities to wreck games), the ceiling blows off this bitch and we’re going to the fuckin’ moon.

As long as Freeman isn’t a total dud as a coach, we can expect to tread water *at worst*. That’s nice.
 
Some Irish Bloke

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IrishLion said:
It was actually light on numbers.

ND projects at 8th overall. Offense and defense trend pretty much to where they were at last year.

His takeaway is the same as ours: the foundation is there to win 9 or 10 without breaking a sweat. If Buchner and a couple of skill guys can break out and take advantage of a seasoned OL (and provide Mayer some opportunities to wreck games), the ceiling blows off this bitch and we’re going to the fuckin’ moon.

As long as Freeman isn’t a total dud as a coach, we can expect to tread water *at worst*. That’s nice.
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Treading water and awaiting the arrival of this class of '23 sounds like an exceptional floor, I agree
 
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I love seeing these quotes from an assistant coach at an ACC program:

“I think those two tackles are two of the better ones in the history … and that’s a hell of a history … but I think when all is said and done you’re talking about two of the better ones to ever play there, just like you are with Michael Mayer at tight end,” the assistant said. “All of a sudden, if you’re not worried about your edges ever, you’ll get the middle part of it right. I think that’s gonna have to be a strength for them, to be able to mash people when they need to.

“If I’m a defensive end, I probably haven’t seen anybody like Fisher, ever.”
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Who woulda guessed it? Talking about the Big Uglies thumping opponents.

As our belated friend, Aaron Lynch, once said: We gonna be Beast.

(More years of great watching for me.)
 
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Foskey’s block at Stanford a few years ago was a game changer.
 
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