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You guys gotta stop with monitoring tweets and likes and girlfriends’ instagram posts, go get a breath of fresh air
Yeah, I'm too damn old to have this kind of drama. The games are enough for me. lol
 

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The amount of recruitments we've lost to a GF who can get in to a crappy state school but not Notre Dame is too damn high

For some inscrutable and infuriating reason our admissions standards for non-revenue sports are almost as low as the standards for moneymaking football players. We should be taking advantage of this to bring on girlfriends for our football players to make up for the lack of...uh...you know...on campus
 

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For some inscrutable and infuriating reason our admissions standards for non-revenue sports are almost as low as the standards for moneymaking football players. We should be taking advantage of this to bring on girlfriends for our football players to make up for the lack of...uh...you know...on campus
It is crazy to me how every other football power house is like “oh you have a family member or significant other? Yeah they’re cool to tag along.”

ND just cannot and will not play ball in that area. And I get it. But it’s still stupid.
 

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For some inscrutable and infuriating reason our admissions standards for non-revenue sports are almost as low as the standards for moneymaking football players. We should be taking advantage of this to bring on girlfriends for our football players to make up for the lack of...uh...you know...on campus
Cooking??? I mean, we have training tables and food plans now man
 

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Cooking??? I mean, we have training tables and food plans now man

lol sure. I remember the one time I had to play host to a couple recruits that were foisted upon a football player I was friendly with in my dorm who was a great guy, super smart, and an incredible football player (I think he's currently battling for starts on an NFL roster) but completely clueless when it came to social matters/partying. He asked me to help show them a fun time because he wasn't much of a drinker or anything at all. I was still a little sophomore in the dorms (or maybe a freshman, I can't quite remember) and I don't think my off campus friends were throwing any parties that night, so I took the guys to a dorm party and was literally shoving them into girls so they could have an opportunity to socialize somewhat. We then returned to my dorm room to take some shots etc. and get a little more twisted and I asked them where else they were looking. They told me LSU and Bama were after them hard. My heart instantly deflated at the thought of how pathetic our little dorm party must have looked compared to the bacchanalia they must have enjoyed down south. When I checked later, we didn't get the commits...


It is crazy to me how every other football power house is like “oh you have a family member or significant other? Yeah they’re cool to tag along.”

ND just cannot and will not play ball in that area. And I get it. But it’s still stupid.

If we eliminated all admissions preferences for non-revenue athletes (a long-time and passionately held Notre Dame opinion of mine) we'd have the leeway on taking academic underperformers in to support the football team for other reasons. Yet another great point in favor of my argument that it is absolute insanity to let in swimmers who can barely read.
 
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Nothing that’ll make you feel more positive or negative then I’d you hadn’t read it IMO
 

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Nothing that’ll make you feel more positive or negative then I’d you hadn’t read it IMO


Man... that sounded incredibly positive to me.


They're still concerned because girlfriend, but the whole thing about his dad is way overblown


This is good news. "He's as positive and committed as he was after Clemson"


That sounds positive and way better than we hoped. His beautiful girlfriend is a factor... no shit.

I'm such a doofus. I've been refreshing 247 all day. I'm happy with it.
 

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Man... that sounded incredibly positive to me.


They're still concerned because girlfriend, but the whole thing about his dad is way overblown


This is good news. "He's as positive and committed as he was after Clemson"


That sounds positive and way better than we hoped. His beautiful girlfriend is a factor... no shit.

I'm such a doofus. I've been refreshing 247 all day. I'm happy with it.

The one interesting part to me was about his Dad. He basically in a Loy way called BS on the OU site painting it as Dad is exclusively pro-OU
 

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What would you expect an all ou Dad to say?

Nothing has changed here other than another day closer to us finding out for sure
 

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What would you expect an all ou Dad to say?

Nothing has changed here other than another day closer to us finding out for sure

How do you know he is all OU? Really hasn’t been mentioned till this week. That’s why it was the main piece I found interesting because it’s really the main new piece of info or not.
 

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The one interesting part to me was about his Dad. He basically in a Loy way called BS on the OU site painting it as Dad is exclusively pro-OU


I think that's a big deal.


Whatever. They're kids. They're being pulled every way *and* loose.

Girlfriends are a massive deal, if we listen to every childhood development expert, much bigger deals than family, clergy, or teachers.


But those childhood development experts weren't elite athletes. I think he sees a way to become a massive difference maker on an already elite(mostly) program on the come up.

He can give us potentially one to two more wins a year then we would have had. I think he knows it. I think he knows he starts right away in that role... and I think he wants it.


Our NIL will get him conjugal visits to fucking OK to see his girl. Let's bring it home.
 

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How do you know he is all OU? Really hasn’t been mentioned till this week. That’s why it was the main piece I found interesting because it’s really the main new piece of info or not.
I'm not saying I know shit. I'm saying IF he is all OU, you think he's gonna do an interview with ND reporters and say yeah I'm trying to convince him to flip I don't support ND etc.

Just saying it doesnt remove my doubt as it relates to Bowen ending up Irish.
 
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I think that's a big deal.


Whatever. They're kids. They're being pulled every way *and* loose.

Girlfriends are a massive deal, if we listen to every childhood development expert, much bigger deals than family, clergy, or teachers.


But those childhood development experts weren't elite athletes. I think he sees a way to become a massive difference maker on an already elite(mostly) program on the come up.

He can give us potentially one to two more wins a year then we would have had. I think he knows it. I think he knows he starts right away in that role... and I think he wants it.


Our NIL will get him conjugal visits to fucking OK to see his girl. Let's bring it home.
Conjugal Visits NIL sounds awesome. I've got eligibility left.
 

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Going to keep some thoughts to myself on that as I continue to dig.

But on the silent to OU, I do not believe that occurred at all this weekend and others in the know I spoke with don’t believe that either.


- Some dude on a premium site
 
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