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I get the dilemma. It has actually gotten worse here near the end. Since Love is getting true Heisman consideration, it is obvious to me that Freeman and Denbrock have planned to give him the best shot at getting it -- consequently reducing even Price's carries.

The ESPN ratings show is full of anti-ND people. But I found it "interesting" that after all the innuendo they threw out vs Notre Dame and how we could be passed and left out, when they finally (near the end) had the Syracuse game flash through their heads, they talked eye-test and that nobody...

How anyone could watch him last season and not realize that he's a starter on basically every team in the country but ours, boggles my mind. So, what happened this year? My opinion: Aneyas played so much last season because Price was not an intelligent blocker. Aneyas was brilliant at reading...

We good. Even with the sometimes maligned line. (which doesn't deserve it.)

We don't have good data. Statistics say that teams will suffer injuries in a statistical spread (Bell-shaped curve) with some luckier and some not. Then overlay that with some sets of athletes facing superior physical specimens both in games and practices (that shifts the curve to the worse for...

Not important, I guess, but Miami beat this same Syracuse roster 38-10. Solid win, but .... not 70-0. My bias says we're better.

Yes. But the real point that I was trying to make is that Coach Rudolph deserves a lot of credit. He manages to have his entire room of athletes ready to play. Pretty amazing.

A small observation: because we have the number of OLinemen unavailable as we do, when we went to entirely second teamers in the second half, it was tough on Coach Rudolph to piece together a second string. What he did was to field Prescod at LT, Black at LG, Terek at Center, Devin Houstan (!)...

Strange game. USC surprisingly non-physical and not tall either. Very dependent upon freshman ace and one other player. Several of them shook by Hannah AND Cass and KK's physicality/hustle. Therefore there was no bullying of us by them. Translation: they (USC) can be made "soft" (note relatively...

About the Big Fella (Jagusah): I don't know what exactly that "arm" fracture is, but my BBaller "recovered" in about 6 (?) months, but it was a recovery which still had a light cast with it. He could play/shoot etc, but still had the cast. Do they let OLinemen play with a "Club"?

I'm not smart enough to answer the "benching" question; I just follow my eyes as to who I'd like on the pitch. Eleven guys. Goalie plus back "four", leaves six. Big "9" (Balogun or ...?). Pulisic and McKennie beside him? leaves three. Adams and Luna and one other Mid. What about Weah? The...

I really do get the player quality issue. It's just that I really liked what I saw when the Coach let McKennie play forward --- I think that he's more of a game wrecker closer in. And, with Luna, I watch him like I watch great linemen at work (i.e. closely even when the ball is not at his feet...

I watched the Ivey post-game con. Completely lacking in useful content, except for two things: 1 --> she didn't invite Hannah out to face any questions (probably wise, but maybe a hint about being able to handle the situation); and 2 --> she did bring KK out (who disported herself very well as a...

Luna = Discovery of the Season. Wide-field awareness = Sweet passes = Offense continues in attack zones. Also: never-ending hustling and +++ defense willingness. Now: how and where on the field in first eleven?

I need to let my fixation on this go. West Virginia had a great WR many years ago who was having such a good season that people were asking him to comment on all kinds of honors. He answered with the right philosophy (albeit the wrong grammar --- and he was actually quite an intelligent young...

Another minuscule thing: Miami hasn't played a lot of "good" eye-test ball lately, except maybe thrashing NC State so badly. How did they do that? I know NC State is now-you-see-me-now-you-don't (5-5) but what actually happened? It appears that they were incompetent in extremum in running the...

I wonder a bit if real football people continue to know that Miami needed a desperation heave, the 2025 catch-of-the-year, and an Adon Shuler first game brain coma to win that game on one spectacular but funky play? Even were I not an ND fan, I'd remember things like that.

Committee's eye-testing right now. Who do we think is Wowing them more? (We did some amazing things vs Pitt.) They still might choose the wrong way, but ...

I believe that there are a lot of good WBB coaches out there in lesser light situations. With any assessment at all, and a good salary offer, we for sure should be attractive.

HA!