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  1. Crazy Balki

    All Things SkunkBear

    Sounding like Ohio State is targeting Eddie George.
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    '19 NJ DE Howard Cross (Notre Dame Signee)

    Graham is a very good DT, but between him and Cross, I take Cross in a millisecond. Graham has the bigger body, but Cross is quicker, meaner and has fast hands and great strength at the point of attack.
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    '15 MI QB Jayru Campbell (WWE Verbal)

    Unfortunately, he couldn't get out of the way of his own kid either. Disgusting. Hard to believe we wanted this guy at one point.
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    2024 Spring Practice Thread

    Based on photos of Wagner, there is no way in hell he's lighter than last year. I don't know if he's past 300, but if he was 288 last year, there is zero chance he's actually 281 now. Even Matt from ISD mentioned he's added noticeable weight since last season. I'm taking those numbers with a...
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    2024 Spring Practice Thread

    I don't think a lack of physicality and aggressiveness was the issue at all. They were plenty physical. But when you can't threaten your opponent vertically at all, then it doesn't really matter how physical you are, because the defense can just beat you with numbers. Think back to 2017. I...
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    '22 TX RB Jadarian Price (Notre Dame Signee)

    We've located Koon's burner account.
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    2024 Spring Practice Thread

    On a scale of 1 to 10 on the concern-o-meter: 1. WR Room - 2/10 (Very confident that ND has some serious speed at receiver with guys like Mitchell and Faison, plus some legit size in guys like Thomas, Greathouse, Collins and hopefully Colzie). 2. LB - 5/10 (I think Bowen is going to be a stud...
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    '19 TN WR Jayden Harrison (ND Grad Transfer)

    ND has seriously lacked top end speed and explosiveness at receiver over the past several years. Going back to 2016, our biggest speed-oriented receivers have been guys like EQ and Braden Lenzy. Going into this year, you have guys like Mitchell, Harrison and Faison, all are established speedy...
  9. Crazy Balki

    2023-24 Notre Dame Men's Basketball

    BUT WAIT! Here comes the high end talent!
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    '25 GA CB Devin Williams (Auburn Verbal)

    Golden is absolutely a dynamic speedy athlete. Dude's film is loaded with explosive plays and his speed and athleticism is off the chart, on top of being a bigger body than Williams. When I think of "must get", it's a guy who if ND misses out on, that creates a hole in the class or they are...
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    '25 NJ Edge Darren Ikinnagbon (Georgia Verbal)

    Ikinnagbonis and Associates would be a hell of a name for a law firm.
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    '25 GA CB Devin Williams (Auburn Verbal)

    Not surprised in the end result, but I was expecting him to make a decision in April, not February. Definitely sucks, but he's not a "must get". ND is in very good shape at corner with Thomas in fold and in a great spot to land Golden and Zackery.
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    '25 CT OT Will Black (Notre Dame Signee)

    Something something broken clock.
  14. Crazy Balki

    General team info

    People who bitched about Tirico probably don't remember how bad things were and how bad things got after Tirico was replaced. Pretty much every announcer/commentator tandem has been mediocre or flat out awful since I started watching. Hammond had good tone and got excited, but knew f*ck all...
  15. Crazy Balki

    General team info

    I don't get why people are celebrating this. I didn't like Collinsworth in the booth either, but Hicks was MUCH worse. He was absolutely sleep-inducing, all while tag-teaming with Flutie to provide a clear bias against ND. Just stupidly boring. He announced football like it's a golf tournament...
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    General team info

    Yep. Both the Big Ten and SEC are going away from divisions and it will now be the best 2 teams play in the conference title game. You will avoid situations like Michigan coasting to a Big Ten title by beating a mediocre at best team like Iowa or Purdue, or a few years back in the SEC, when...
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    '25 MO OT Jack Lange (Mizzou Verbal)

    I don't think either were examples of lacking mental toughness. Those had more to do with offenses that couldn't execute at a high enough level, consistently leaving the defense hung out to dry. Against Stanford, Drew Pyne had far and away his worst game of the year. He couldn't hit water if...
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    '20 CA DE Ben Yurosek (Stanford Verbal)

    I'd say so. Staes was looking at a situation where he was going to definitely be behind Evans and Raridon, and honestly, Flanagan was outplaying him later in the year. Staes is similar in a lot of ways to Yurosek. Good receiving TE, but needed a good bit of work as a blocker. What I like...
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    '20 CA DE Ben Yurosek (Stanford Verbal)

    Evans is expected to be 100% by fall camp. It isn't a situation like Raridon. Raridon needed more time, because it wasn't his first knee procedure, and the more times you have to have your knee fixed, the longer the recovery is. Evans doesn't have that problem. I think the issue is that we...
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    '20 CA DE Ben Yurosek (Stanford Verbal)

    I'm not sure I'd trade any of those 3 for Yurosek, so yeah, I'd say so. Yurosek is a good receiving TE, but his blocking leaves much to be desired and he's not all that big. He kind of reminds me of Jack Larsen, just further along. Flanagan, Evans and Raridon are all good receiving TEs, but...
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