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Sure, people do put too much stock in the underwear olympics and that includes plenty of bad GMs. Every year certain players significantly fall or rise in the draft solely based on their combine performance, or even more specifically their 40 time. It's understandable if draft boards get...

I think it's mostly Jeremiah. He's not as high on Mayer as others. Kiper and McShay both have Mayer as #1 TE and going somewhere in the mid-1st. I think Jeremiah (and possibly others) are assuming Mayer isn't very fast and his game won't translate as well in the NFL. I think he'll be proven...

Yeah, the Klein thing is the trickiest part of the situation. MF certainly made it sound like Klein turned us down but it doesn't make sense that he would have been offered a job to turn down based on when Ludwig came to campus. Ludwig came to campus the day after Klein left. I don't think...

Yeah, I think it makes some sense but not totally. I mean, it's not like he paraded Klein around for photo ops when he was on campus. Also, I still think they thought they were going to land Ludwig and I think Ludwig had given them plenty of reason to think that by the time they all showed up at...

I don't think he ruffled his feathers at all, or to the extent that he was a little fired up about the question, he wasn't fired up at Berandino. He was fired up about the perception surrounding everyone seeing Ludwig at the hockey game. I think Freeman was itching for an opportunity to address...

I seem to recall Aaron Banks was a late offer and committed late in the '17 cycle.

Yeah, we'll probably never know for sure but it really doesn't matter as long as we get a top-notch guy. The main parts I took away from the article are that they've narrowed their list down, will likely be interviewing throughout the weekend, and hope to have someone named by midweek.

Are you saying Ludwig was an off-the-wall name?

Hansen just posted an article a couple of hours ago... https://notredame.rivals.com/news/analysis-parker-s-next-order-of-business-and-sizing-up-the-o-line-field His list is similar to Loy's but he has Joe Rudolph (Va. Tech) listed as the most ideal candidate. He says this about where MF and...

It was a formal offer. JS is trying to use semantics to rationalize that it wasn't since, obviously, nothing was ever signed, but you don't get to the buyout stage of the negotiations unless you already have an agreement with Lugwig that would include his yearly pay and duration of terms and...

Yes, this is exactly the right take. Once you bring Ludwig on campus and parade him around for all to see with the goal to hire him as ND's next OC, then you better have all of your ducks in a row and be fully prepared to make that deal. All "obstacles" should have been known beforehand. And...

Dude, what are you talking about? The topic was the 2014 defense. It had nothing to do with this year's offense. And Day was drafted in the 4th round. Rochell was drafted in the 7th. And my point was they made NFL rosters or were close. Making a roster is more important than getting drafted. I...

That is not what the article said. She glossed over the details, and by doing that it sort of sounds like ND didn't screw up as much as we thought, but yes, they still did. All you have to do is re-read the article and you can see the key details. The article states that the buyout was an...

Yeah, that's an easy takeaway but Vandy was much better in year 2 after Lea made the hires than they were in year 1. The point isn't that anyone should buy into the idea that ND should buy into Vandy's hiring philosophy. The point is to try to understand a part of the thought process that might...

So Parker was far from my 1st choice and he clearly wasn't MF's first choice either, but this tweet by Sampson might help explain why MF finally settled on that idea...

Oh, I know. I was just pointing out that we didn't need 11 Jaylons to have a good defense. The talent was already there. We just needed a competent DC.

We also had Day, Rochelle, Jarron Jones, Onwaulu, Romeo, and Cole Luke - all guys who either made NFL rosters or were close.

As Sampson pointed out in yesterday's II podcast, the details of Ludwig's contract and the details of his buyout were known before Ludwig was interviewed. If somehow Swarbrick or the lawyers got those details wrong that would have totally been on them for screwing up the vetting process. If they...

The problem is they were already down in the pecking order and might have even been eliminated as possibilities for whatever reasons. You don't know if they were still viable candidates. They also have contracts to deal with, so you have no idea if their buyouts are also prohibitive according to...

Well, no one is official yet. The extreme likelihood is Swarbrick already knows Parker will be OC but he has to go through a more thorough vetting process and the story of him being the OC will be leaked soon.