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  1. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    Commentators almost laughing about the greatest thrashing .... ouch.
  2. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

    Has to be "politics". And ... you can't really fail with the talent.
  3. Old Man Mike

    Environmental Issues

    Ehhh ... complicated subject for sure. The politicians are doing what the voters have consistently (since Arnold Schwarzenegger) told them that they wanted. Schwarzenegger began the heavy push for Carbon Emission reduction policies in 2008(?) or so, and the State has given it a whacking big...
  4. Old Man Mike

    College Athletics Branding - Name Image Likeness Rules

    I have a profound confusion in this area and maybe someone sees this well enough to help out. Let's say we have many players around the country who are making big salaries with NIL contracts (or anything for that matter) and as far as the courts are concerned they are employees (of somebody) on...
  5. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    THAT is really funny.
  6. Old Man Mike

    Environmental Issues

    "Where the hell are the environmentalists? Oh that's right. They don't care." I write here for my brothers on IE just because I know many of you DO care. I don't write because I hope to change anything about the poster above. You already know, I'm sure, that he is simply an asshole and...
  7. Old Man Mike

    ‘27 UT QB Kamden Lopati (Illinois Verbal)

    Gamble came to Notre Dame after my junior year. Unfortunately for him, Joe Kuharich was the coach (and mightily failing) and pinned his future to the "elephant backfield" that he bragged about in recruiting. This group of newcomers was to feature Jim Snowden (NFL offensive tackle) at fullback...
  8. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    Twentyone-gun salute for Towt --- coach's dream warrior.
  9. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    As to "we": I was born in 1940. Therefore I lived through the growth of this Crap-at-the-Top. But I cannot honestly beat myself up about being the cause of its "success." I never treated anyone this way, and once an adult, indicated to others what I felt about it on the rare moments something of...
  10. Old Man Mike

    '19 NJ DE RJ Oben (Duke Grad Transfer - Notre Dame Verbal)

    I apologize for my OCD; just want to note that this is our guy's dad, not he himself. (He's a bit young for this.)
  11. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    There is talk of scheduling the Miami game there ... but in the Colosseum.
  12. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    The big guy can't shoot ... agreed. The coach should set up offense to accommodate that flaw ... agreed. But it sure as hell would be nice if everyone else busted their ass like he does out there. Thanks, big fella.
  13. Old Man Mike

    Immigration

    I live in western Michigan, and my Catholic parish had a relationship with the hundreds and hundreds of temporary worker immigrants who worked both the planting but mainly the harvesting season for our HUGE fruit belt economy. We spent weekly support service for those folks and their families...
  14. Old Man Mike

    ‘27 SD TE Cooper Terwilliger (Offer)

    If Iowa doesn't offer, how wouldn't we? SD TE next door to IA? Seems destined.
  15. Old Man Mike

    I Don’t Know Where to Put This

    With this being a "job for pay", what really is there to stop a marginal-NFL player from continuing to make a living occupying a collegiate roster spot? Where's the "law" which opposes that? Isn't this just one big court case away? It seems to me that the only thing which could stop this...
  16. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    .... just to be clear on my take: I do NOT subscribe to the conspiracy position in post number 9071 above. My assessment is that this POTUS runs his own life and always has, as a spoiled egocentric hedonist (utterly self-oriented and beyond any "law" other than something more powerful than he...
  17. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    The "conversation" here is "understandable" in horrible nearly terrifying ways. Nothing about it is "funny" nor "laughable" in any way to anyone with any maturity or morality. This is about a person with no moral compass at all. He is the Fairy Tale Bully, who enjoys himself so completely, so...
  18. Old Man Mike

    '21 CA QB Tyler Buchner (ND FB -> Bama FB -> ND LAX???)

    probably already said, but if he doesn't shove some really useful depth player out, I'd like to have Buchner as a seriously dangerous fake field goal holder. He might be as dangerous as anybody around at that.
  19. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    ... only if he wanted to tell Certa something specially for that last 9 seconds rushed play would it make sense. Since Certa's the Bomber, that could make sense.
  20. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    I watched a little of this. For much of that time, we were employing a defensive philosophy which I generally like --> the Hard Hedge by the screener's man on high top of key area screens. Our Big would do this generally fine, but the guard screened (especially when it was the coach's son)...
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