Ok, so I started to write the below reply to this latest don't want to play rigid, in-the-classroom school challenge for ND, but then I realized that if ND makes these adjustments for portal players, the university and MF-led team culture would be seriously affected.
Thus, it is just going to have to be the same ND filter that has always been in place. ND is different and it's not for everyone. Sure Admissions will be flexible, but we won't compromise on players being a students at ND where they go to class with the student body. Yes, the university can offer some classes online, but it can't be where football players (which to be fair would have to be the policy for all players) get special treatment and don't have to go to class. ND is certainly not a Football factory school.
I'm not sure if this is the right attitude, but it seems like that, as before, the staff will just need to find the RKG player, whatever that is in the portal era.
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Not sure what MF's NFL flirt was all about and what he and his agent were using it for, but you would think that just like BK a # of years back trying to get better assistant coach pay pkgs and players table, that in this crazy NIL- and TP to the highest bidder-driven CFB world, he and his agent would be using the jump to NFL threat as negotiating leverage to get ND academic standards and policies groups to make "school" more flexible in the portal age.
