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Yeah, I'm not getting the panic here. It's not like ND was beating down the door for him to come back. He's a solid depth rusher. That's about it.

Ballard: Drafting a QB high is career suicide. Also Ballard: I'm putting my career in the hands of Ryan Tannehill!

To be fair, Hayes and Ade took a while to finally become difference makers. Hayes played as a sophomore, but was pretty maddeningly inconsistent and raw until his final year when he stepped out of the shadow of Okwara. Even then, he had his great moments, but also had games where he was kind...

Foskey? While I do agree that Gilmore pulled a lot of difference makers, none of those guys mentioned became difference makers until they became upperclassmen. Kareem and Okwara flashed as sophomores, but then emerged as difference makers as juniors. Ade had to wait his turn to become a...

I suppose Rubio hasn't been a major difference maker, but I wouldn't say he's out of position. Dude is a pretty textbook nose at 6'5 300 as a sophomore. He's still young and is just starting to emerge, so there's a very realistic chance he makes that next step and is the guy at nose. There's...

He's not Ted Phillips. That in and of itself is warranting an induction to Canton.

Yeah, you're done. Mods, ban.

I can count him, because unlike you, I'm not a clueless dipshit.

I don't want to say Scott is FOS, but kid, come the f*ck on. You're in Rick Astley territory in this recruitment. You know the rules and so does ND. Either you are all in on NIL or not. If you are prioritizing NIL, then ND isn't going to play that game. They've been burned far too many times...

You had Vernon, Houstan, Traore, Mukam and Zinter in '23. Umeh would be part of a 5-6 man DL class along with potential guys like the Smith Bros., Lindsey, Young, Hayes, and others. I think the way recruiting is going, your depth isn't going to be bad when a guy like Umeh gets on campus. Not...

I get it, but I don't really see the benefit of JD getting majority reps at Mike. At his best in '22, JD was solid. You need better than solid. JD should still be in the rotation, but JD and Kiser need to be on notice. Their starting jobs are up for grabs. Junior, Prince and Sneed need to be...

I think the WR corp is the position that is best placed to take a massive step forward. There is talent, but it's been hampered by less than stellar QB play for years. Then you add a guy like Sam Hartman who knows how to get the ball to his receivers. That's going to pay major dividends for...

I'd say there's little doubt that their return will be within that ballpark. You need to keep in mind, the Niners gave up 3 1st rounders and a 3rd rounder to move up to select 3rd in the draft. That was for a proverbial FCS project in Trey Lance. The Bears are picking 1st and while I don't...

Your point was that ND's endowment money isn't going to go to HS players. My point was that ND is getting that endowment money from somewhere, and that's the donor-base, and said donor base can help make ND a very solid NIL marketing base for CFB players. Then you countered by going back to the...

I didn't miss the point. I don't expect ND to start paying high school players left and right, but them not investing in and promoting their NIL collectives is also going to hurt them with recruiting HS players. More money in the collective and more promotion means you have a much bigger NIL...

I think it's a situation where AK needs to get back to where he was pre-injury. Rubio emerged while he was gone, but outside of that, Chris Smith is gone, Cross is all but assured to be moving to 3T. So the situation is actually a bit more inviting for someone like him. If he can, him and...

How people are still questioning whether Fields is a quality QB is beyond me. Fields had, IMO, the worst offensive support in the league. The worst OL in the league in terms of pass protection and a complete joke of a receiving corp, along with one of the worst defenses in the league. He...

That money isn't going to high school football players, so that argument is irrelevant. The FUND goes to athletes who are currently enrolled at ND, not ones that are thinking of enrolling at ND. That said, ND still isn't promoting it, despite it clearly going to benefitting CURRENT ND...

I'm pretty sure most stadiums' atmospheres would be dead if your team was 0-2 and coming off a loss to Marshall and were playing like absolute crap. The Clemson game atmosphere, on the other hand, was electric.

Really getting sick of this.