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I mean, the number of highly-drafted NFL quarterbacks who “live up to their potential” is so small that I don’t think it has much of anything to do with where you played in college. More about the right combo of talent, smarts, and maybe most importantly circumstance.

We have (hopefully) Traore, Junior, Logan Thomas and yeah all three of the guys you mention in more pure pass rushing situations. This sucks for Botelho but it's a very deep position.

I went 0-for-the-Big-Ten as a student in the late '90s/early 2000s. Multiple unhappy trips each to Michigan, Purdue and Sparty. Saw us lose at BC once in the Weis years. The year of his knee injury; it was pretty pathetic. Have also attended a couple of losses at USC (2006, 2014). For wins, I...

That's where collective bargaining comes in. You set clear rules, in a contract, and they are enforceable. Like the way many businesses, including all the major American professional sports, operate.

Apparently he is the Tallest Living Mongolian.

Are tickets at Michigan or Tennessee any cheaper?

Notre Dame sold out its allotment very quickly, before even lower-tier Sorin Society members had access. Pretty sure BC has sold its out as well. Looks like they start in the low $200s on Stubhub right now. It's always a tough ticket b/c it's a small stadium, BC thinks we're their rival, and...

Allowing it? What choice do they have? It's a free country. He's not an indentured servant, or even a signed recruit. Kid wants to go spend a weekend in Athens Georgia you're not going to stop him. More broadly though, when a top early commit gets an offer from an elite program and wants to go...

Maybe it changed when OVs became unlimited and collectives started paying for unofficials and the difference between the two types of visits became miniscule.

AQs are anti-competitive, and the SEC probably gets five teams in a 16-team field more often than not anyway. Did the Big 10 overplay their hand here?

Is that USC's defensive coordinator? The only coach more prominent than Freeman?

Fair. I live in Massachusetts and struck by how many kids from the Boston suburbs lately seem to go to Clemson (and other southern state schools with big-time sports). Maybe this is a long play to develop closer ties to the next generation of national schools. But still. They are not USC, and I...

Yeah. USC is a century-old rivalry with a fellow blue blood that is one of the other most-nationally-popular major programs around. They are a worthy peer. Clemson is a regional school (not in our region) that yes has been very good over the last decade but could easily recede to their...

Agreed. Aside from the Rose Bowl, they're all just blah generic NFL stadiums at this point. There's some tradition with the SEC and the Sugar Bowl I guess. The rest of them? Whatever (and it's not like Dallas or Atlanta are especially pleasant in January). The Peach Bowl wasn't even a big thing...

I really think it's more about the travel (and Lincoln Riley generally being a pussy who can't beat teams that play real defense). Because, you're right, if anything, playing us would help their odds as a bubble B1G team competing for a playoff spot. But I guess Riley's made the calculus that...

I sort of get USC's concern about coming to South Bend in October, especially now that they're making (typically) three other trips east for Big Ten games. But that's just about the travel (and, again, we do that sort of thing all the time). The notion of "not playing a nonconference game in...

You would think that. Something to help you stand out amid the 9-3 B1G teams fighting for that fourth AQ slot. I kinda wonder if it's more about the travel. They have two stretches this coming season where they'll fly to the Central or Eastern timezones twice in three weeks. (one of which is for...

Aren't we getting about $50M/year in the new NBC contract? We'd better be because otherwise - minus CFP takes that you can't really budget on - we're getting pretty much the same money as every team in the ACC. Which is, in fact, bad.

UT, sure. The rest of them who gives a shit. They're no different than the interchangeable ACC teams we already play too many of. But, honestly, the way things are going with nine-conference schedules in the B1G and (soon) SEC, we'll be playing lots of mid Big 12 teams just to fill out a...

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