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Sounds like it's amateur hour in SB?

I don't know, but I think the odds are better than 50%. And I doubt this IU team loses to both, which is what killed us. To be clear, I would take us against anyone except IU and OSU, and maybe Oregon. And even those are 50/50 games.

I think the underlying issue is that the season was a disappointment. We went 11-1 last year and this season the team promised to be even better. We might have been better, but we took a step back and missed the playoffs. There are a lot of reasons for that, of course, some of which are not in...

Yeah, but he has a different roster than ND has.

Yeah, but isn't that why Burnham left? He wanted a guaranteed starting spot?

So that would have meant guaranteeing him a starting spot, and not rotating him? Or what?

That's great, but (1) the recruits presumably know he's coming in and (2) he isn't going to be recruiting WRs

Right, I didn't say they wouldn't make the playoff again. Especially if it expands to 16.

Yeah, but even if IU wins the title this year the odds they repeat are not high. (Not because of anything about IU in particular, but because it's obviously hard to repeat.)

That sounds like he settled on IU in advance, then, and would only go elsewhere for more money.

Just about anyone who is honest (i.e., not paid to have a different opinion) knows we get screwed by the CFP. USC doesn't want us because they want a game with 90% odds of winning, not ~50% or whatever when we play them. And IU is good now, losing a recruit to them is not embarrassing. We just...

When you take transfers you can see in advance how good they are. It wasn't like nobody at ND knew Coogan was good.

Yeah, Alabama and OU played tough schedules on paper. It means nothing. What matters for the playoff is going 12-0 or 11-1. That basically guarantees you a spot regardless of SOS.

What does this mean, exactly? NIL money? What?

Shouldn't be hard now, given who we have at QB

Would like to know if that happened or not.

Sometimes a player just wants to go elsewhere, not everything that happens is ND's "fault." I'd be interested to hear what happened here.

We don't the reason. But yeah, as far as I know you can't take only online classes at ND for any degree program, whether or not you get your degree.

Herbstreit mentioned on the Rose Bowl broadcast that all of Mendoza's classes are online, so he basically doesn't have schoolwork and can spend all his time watching film. I don't think that is possible at ND.

We don't know whether he wanted to go to class or not, but he apparently didn't want to wait long enough to visit ND. That sounds to me like he wasn't really interested in ND.