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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.

Yeah, because it was the only game on. Is FSU playing in their bowl game in 2023 after getting similarly screwed supposed to be a model of what to do? They had a huge number of opt-outs, got killed, and haven't been good since. Not sure how playing in that game helped them.

I mean, both teams in the NCG last year had transfer QBs. This year, 3/4 (or I guess 4/4) teams in the semifinals do. If a team wins with a portal QB, what's the issue with not being able to recruit a QB out of HS, who may or may not reflect their ranking? Miami having a seasoned QB and us...

IU appears to have better coaching than ND. They weren't unprepared in their big games. I wouldn't have been confident playing them this year, although it would have been a 50/50 type game.

Ok. Isn't it going to be winter break?

It's supposed to be the same teams?

Ok ND's won 11

I'm not saying we would have lost to IU; I'm saying if we were in then Bama wouldn't be in and we wouldn't be playing OSU, because they just lost.

Bama got killed by UGA the day before the committee picked the teams for the playoff. It looked like this. It didn't matter at all; the process is a sham. So I don't know how Bama "hurting their reputation" by this performance really matters.

We wouldn't have this year, either, if we had been in. We'd be where Bama is playing IU.

I know on conference championship weekend the committee was busy rewatching the ND/Miami game that took place more than three months earlier, and not watching the SEC CG game because those games don't count for Bama, but it still happened. So this isn't a surprise, is it?

Bingo. It's about money. Nobody with eyes to see and ears to hear thought ND was worse than OU and Bama.

Would a different DC have had the defense in a better place to start the season? Because the defense we got early is on the long list of things that more-or-less wrecked the season.

They jumped out to a 17-0 first half deficit- very impressive.