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I respect greatness; he's a great coach. I think the age thing is the secret, though.

Yeah, I mean, the sport changed. And they hired a good coach. ND spent 30 years not doing that.

Lots of crying in here about IU winning. Jealously isn't a good look. IU winning doesn't affect ND much; ND just needs to take care of its own business.

It was more because our defense wasn't functioning until 2.5 games in. Even average defense beats A&M.

Yeah, but wasn't it a problem the past three years? Did players in those portal cycles not know that ND students go to class?

Honestly, who cares? If Miami had lost to A&M we wouldn't have been put in the playoffs or won a NC. I don't understand why people care about "vindication." It means nothing. I wouldn't accept the ESPN framing. The debate should have been OU or Alabama, not Miami or ND.

It sounds like the ND is the school you use for leverage

I have a heard time believing that the general problem we're having with portal players is not wanting to go to class. But presumably that is something for which ND can compensate a player, just like the weather, or being far away from home, etc.

I would appreciate if the program would be a little more open with the press, tbh. We as fans have no idea what's going on, it looks bad- so tell us that it isn't bad. Unless it is bad, in which case I would like to know why it is bad.

I don't know why this would be an ND administration 'issue' as opposed to a football program-specific 'issue,' because of how smoothly the portal stuff seemed to go the past two years.

I mean, that's just sports for 99% of fans. None of us have any control over this stuff. I assume you were upset when we were left out of the CFP.

Delusional, arrogant, oblivious? That's definitely very ND.

Major ND donors need to get on the phone soon and take control, here, after what happened this season. This is not a time to be cheap. Pete Sampson made it sound like they are not cheap when discussing MF's contract negotiations. Not that I trust the ND beat, though.

Why should fans pay hundreds (thousands) of dollars to see an ND game when the program is this cheap? If ND won't pay, neither should ND fans.

Well, maybe if they'd made a decision sooner they would have had a better offensive gameplan vs. Miami. The drawn-out QB battle didn't help the team, from what I can tell.

Certainly doesn't seem like the program/staff know what's going on.

Should we love it? After what happened this year, is now the time to be cheap? Is that how OSU reacted after 2023-24?

So I guess we're not "saving" for that lol Sounds like the program will have a lot of money lying around, maybe they can discount the beer at ND stadium?

He's around, there was a whole series of posts in the MF thread about how he fought with a coach at a Penn wrestling match

Right, but these guys aren't going to OSU instead.