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That's true. But we aren't talking about what RL generally does. We're talking about the 2 plays where SA got sacked. The first one, Baker gets beat off the snap and SA has no time at all to see the pressure and avoid the sack. The second one was after a high snap that forced SA to catch the...

You are projecting your bias. He got crushed. It's what knocked him out of the game. It wasn't his fault but he did get crushed. And I'll bet you didn't go back and look at those 2 Angeli sacks again. Those weren't anywhere close to being SA's fault and it would have been a miracle if RL or...

RL wasn't surviving at that point in the game either. His getting sacked is what knocked him out of the game. The OL was really bad at that point. If you think the 2 Angeli sacks were on Angeli, you weren't watching closely enough. RL would have gotten crushed on those 2 plays too. And yes, I...

He had just signed a new extension the year before. I don't put anything past BK, but I doubt even he thought it would make sense to ask for yet another extension just 1 year after signing his then-current extension.

No, I think IrishLax has it right. BK never really bought into ND and was looking for greener grass beginning in 2012. His up-and-down seasons from 2013 to 2015 and then the disaster of 2016 ruined his chances of parlaying ND success into what he thought would be better prospects. He reinvented...

They are the same things. It was the Army AA Bowl until a few years or so ago. Army stopped sponsoring so it switched to just the "All-American Bowl" and now the Navy is sponsoring so it's the Navy AA Bowl. NBC Sports owns it though.

No, you are correct. The specific rule for a defenseless player is a hit to the head or neck area with a helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder with at least one indicator of targeting. There are several indicators but this one definitely applies to the play in question: Leading with...

It sounded like a very slim chance based on MF's comments. He said CJ hasn't been practicing much, this would be his first full week of practice, and then emphasized that maintaining consistency on the OL was the most important consideration in terms of who would play.

No, not allowed. EE are allowed to practice with the team but that's it. I don't know if transfers are allowed to practice but neither EEs or TPs are allowed to play until next season.

Is anyone doing that?

So I don't know for sure that Angeli can ever be "the guy," and if I were to guess which one of Angeli, Minchey, or Carr is most likely to be a full-time starter for ND, my money would be on Carr... BUT those of you who think you know for sure that Angeli can never be the guy are full of shit...

Sort of but it would have to be a true sophomore. Do we know of any true sophomores that would have higher upsides than Carr/Angeli/Minchey and would not cause at least 2 of those 3 to transfer? A junior QB with NFL potential would be 1 and done unless he has a bad year, so I don't see ND...

That's my screw-up. They didn't mention names at all and I just accidentally omitted Carr in my list of potential spring QB's. I'll edit so as not to cause confusion.

MF voluntarily brought up the QB situation moving forward. The key quote he made was, "[Having a 1-year QB] is not a problem we expect to have in the future," which seems to imply he doesn't plan to bring in a portal QB and will be going with Angeli, Minchey, Carr, and Hebert in the spring. The...

Thanks for the advice. I hope it doesn't come to that but if it does, I'll see if he is game.

Yeah, thanks for the pep talk. That's my plan but the unfortunate thing is I was planning to take a buddy of mine from out of town. He has until next Thursday to cancel his flight, which means ticket prices need to be in the reasonable range by then so he doesn't make the trip for nothing.

Well, I guess everyone can call me Charlie Brown. I put in for only 2 tickets... didn't get them. And I wasn't part of the initial lottery pool. I was part of the faculty/staff pool that wasn't told we would be part of a lottery when we applied for tickets. It was only after the deadline passed...

I agree with your first point - the goal of any system should be to put the best 2, 4, 12, etc. teams in - but I disagree with your 2nd point. "Who would beat who" is another way of saying "the eye test." If you think the eye test should always outweigh most deserving/resume I think you are...

It might be difficult to rank Clemson ahead of SMU because that would mean Clemson would jump 6 teams in the rankings, including 3 spots ahead of South Carolina, who just beat them. Maybe they'll do it, but they could also keep Clemson ranked outside of the top twelve, giving them the 12 seed...

I think the main scenario we want is for both PSU and SMU to lose. That would force the committee to either play it straight and make both teams drop in the rankings but still remain in the playoffs, meaning SMU would be the last team in and Bama would be out, or show their huge unfair bias by...