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  1. Old Man Mike

    '19 NJ DE RJ Oben (Duke Grad Transfer - Notre Dame Verbal)

    I apologize for my OCD; just want to note that this is our guy's dad, not he himself. (He's a bit young for this.)
  2. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    There is talk of scheduling the Miami game there ... but in the Colosseum.
  3. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    The big guy can't shoot ... agreed. The coach should set up offense to accommodate that flaw ... agreed. But it sure as hell would be nice if everyone else busted their ass like he does out there. Thanks, big fella.
  4. Old Man Mike

    Immigration

    I live in western Michigan, and my Catholic parish had a relationship with the hundreds and hundreds of temporary worker immigrants who worked both the planting but mainly the harvesting season for our HUGE fruit belt economy. We spent weekly support service for those folks and their families...
  5. Old Man Mike

    ‘27 SD TE Cooper Terwilliger (Penn State Verbal)

    If Iowa doesn't offer, how wouldn't we? SD TE next door to IA? Seems destined.
  6. Old Man Mike

    I Don’t Know Where to Put This

    With this being a "job for pay", what really is there to stop a marginal-NFL player from continuing to make a living occupying a collegiate roster spot? Where's the "law" which opposes that? Isn't this just one big court case away? It seems to me that the only thing which could stop this...
  7. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    .... just to be clear on my take: I do NOT subscribe to the conspiracy position in post number 9071 above. My assessment is that this POTUS runs his own life and always has, as a spoiled egocentric hedonist (utterly self-oriented and beyond any "law" other than something more powerful than he...
  8. Old Man Mike

    Trump Presidency Round 2

    The "conversation" here is "understandable" in horrible nearly terrifying ways. Nothing about it is "funny" nor "laughable" in any way to anyone with any maturity or morality. This is about a person with no moral compass at all. He is the Fairy Tale Bully, who enjoys himself so completely, so...
  9. Old Man Mike

    '21 CA QB Tyler Buchner (ND FB -> Bama FB -> ND LAX???)

    probably already said, but if he doesn't shove some really useful depth player out, I'd like to have Buchner as a seriously dangerous fake field goal holder. He might be as dangerous as anybody around at that.
  10. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    ... only if he wanted to tell Certa something specially for that last 9 seconds rushed play would it make sense. Since Certa's the Bomber, that could make sense.
  11. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    I watched a little of this. For much of that time, we were employing a defensive philosophy which I generally like --> the Hard Hedge by the screener's man on high top of key area screens. Our Big would do this generally fine, but the guard screened (especially when it was the coach's son)...
  12. Old Man Mike

    Time for new partner: Big 10 or SEC?

    Well, that's not what I wrote. (or intended to write anyway.) What I was saying is just that we can make the playoffs even with the conferences making schedule-making tough on us, SO the upper air negotiations MUST now be just about how much MONEY ND Football will lose if it joins a conference...
  13. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

    Strange stats: even shooting percentages, but we're outrebounded by almost 20!. Fortunately we make all our foul shots, plus steal the ball. Cass Prosper plays only 17 minutes --- I'm assuming foul trouble plus, maybe, a little bench time for gloating over an opponent after a physical lay-up...
  14. Old Man Mike

    Time for new partner: Big 10 or SEC?

    I'm wondering if IE members know what the football economic differences are (just that; no "history" or pissed-off-ness) going into the near foreseeable future: independence vs B1G vs ACC [I don't see compatibility with SEC nor Big12.] My request is because I believe that none of the "other...
  15. Old Man Mike

    Ja'Juan Seider - Running Backs Coach

    Still can't help myself so ... we should at least note what the outside football world thought about our OLine last season. A. In mid season, we were recommended as one of the JOE MOORE Award finalists. Note that this was AFTER "No Jagusah" and the games vs Miami and A&M; B. By season's end...
  16. Old Man Mike

    Ja'Juan Seider - Running Backs Coach

    My sketchy opinions: A. Aneyas is going to outshine nearly every RB in the country this year UNLESS he gets passed by OTHERS in his own RB room; B. Our RB room will be (again) the best in the country, maybe even requiring an NCAA investigation as to how that's possible; C. I don't know who of...
  17. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 ND Basketball Thread

    or three year-around European scouts.
  18. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

    Yes to most of the recent commentaries. I'd add (though I should stop festering about this --- Ivey will either grow as a head coach or she won't and I should just watch the coming year) that ALL of this seems to revolve around the situation that our current head coach is just gradually learning...
  19. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

    In support of Babyirish's post: I believe that the center of "Cancer" in all of last year was really Westbeld's and Miles' unwillingness to play college basketball defense. In Westbeld's case, that lack of giving an effort extended to rebounding (Miles at least liked to do that.) Now, place...
  20. Old Man Mike

    2025-2026 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

    OK. Life's tough. But you cannot be a coach who allows any player to run the program. Otherwise this is the NBA. You have to establish that YOU are running everything about the program day-one of every player's campus career. (Think Boone in Remember The Titans, or for a real life instance: Lou...
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