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He went to James Madison and lost the QB competition

Hey thanks for posting. Curious what you've heard about your receiving corps? I think Beck is a gunslinger - he'll make some mistakes, but you're also never out of a game with him. But who is going to consistently get open for him? Your TE Lofton looks pretty athletic, but the receivers...

Their kicker is gone now and they brought in the kicker from Texas who was only 64% on FGs last year

Just picked up my copy of Phil Steele yesterday, and he has the units ranked nationally as follows: D-Line: ND - 4 - notes they're loaded with depth and potential and should have a heavy rotation of quality guys especially at edge Miami - 11 - Notes that Rueben Bain is a stud but less depth...

Freeman actually talked about this play with Pete Sampson earlier this off-season. They had scouted Smith's footwork pre-snap, and noticed he ran a reverse any time he lined up the way he did on this play. So Gray was supposed to meet Smith on the other side of the reverse - except OSU...

Sampson wrote an article on him on the Athletic. When was the last time he wrote an article on a recruit who didn't commit to ND?

I think he's been quoted as saying something along the lines of preferring the NFL because you can use much more advanced schemes, BUT part of the reason he loves coaching at ND so much is because the players are so smart that he doesn't have to dumb down his schemes much. I forget where I read...

I like this site for opponent adjusted efficiency stats https://www.bcftoys.com/2024-dfei/ Notably, ND is ranked #1 in D FEI with UT and OSU being the other 2 clearly elite defenses

There's no reason for him to come back in 26 barring a serious injury next year that tanks his stock. As an RB, going early is always preferable. If you're talking maximizing career earnings - the ideal situation for an elite RB is leaving after 3 years in college, getting drafted in the 2nd...

Riley would have to want to come back first. But Denbrock has a pretty strong pitch based on what he did with Daniels in year 2

Mac Jones I believe Edit: nvm he was a junior

They haven't. QBs have logged 75 carries for -10 yards against IU this year. They've also played 9 teams 93rd or worse in rush offense

According to 247 he did

Sampson said in this morning's article "no major damage" after MRI. Might be sore, but will play in the playoffs

Athletic mailbag from Wednesday

Genuinely can't think of a single coach that would be a definite upgrade and as good of a culture fit, that is even a remote possibility. If post-NIU Freeman is the coach we're getting from now on ... there's not many that I think are definitely better, period. Kirby obviously. Maybe Lanning...

Sampson specifically stated "not just the Dukes, Northwesterns, and Vandys" of the world

True, but it was harder to be a one loss team in the past with more power 5 conferences and members playing most everyone in the conference. There will likely end up being more undefeated and 1-loss teams this year than in years past

If y'all wanna have fun simulating nightmare scenarios...https://collegefootballnetwork.com/college-football-playoff-predictor. Just made one where OSU, aTm, KState, and Clemson run the table for conference champions, and then had: 12-1 Oregon, 11-1 PSU, 11-1 Indiana 12-1 Miami, 11-1 Pitt...

Part of the issue with recruiting big nose tackle types is there just aren't a lot of them each class. If you look at the top 100 DL (all the way into 3*, 87 grade territory) in 247's 2025 rankings, only 30 of them are 285lbs+. Then you start looking at demographics of those 30 and the...