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Now wait for the reply from Jaded. I’m detecting a pattern that is reminiscent of some recently banned posters. Starting an argument in multiple threads simultaneously. Becoming high volume poster. @IrishLion should check the IP. May be familiar.

I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lol
 

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I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lol

What was the other active one?
 

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I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lo
You're doing the Lord's work mis amigos.
 

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I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lol
Well done my friend. Again, what a fucking loser this kloown is.
 

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I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lol
I usually don’t care what happens to these posters, but I approve this one. He’d bitch if ND wins the NC.
 

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I just swung the ban hammer on FOUR (4) profiles linked to our old friend, two of which were inactive and I assume just waiting to be called up to the big leagues when other usernames were banned.

Good catch… now let’s see how long until more profiles set up under a different proxy server appear lol
Thank you for doing God's work. May want to check out the profile made Sunday called "NotKoon". Really.
 

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Is Michigan's class better than ours?
Not even close they've landed nothing but blue chips recently and thats all their considering at the moment, game changing 4*/5* players and no project players! Strickly targeting top 150 players and their landing them. Especially considering they were barely a .500 team.
 

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Just imagine if ND didn’t make the playoffs or finished with Michigan’s record. The bitching and moaning would be even more unbearable. Some of these posts are completely unhinged for a team that just rattled off 10 straight victories with the largest point differential in college football and has a legit shot to win it all. All of us want ND to have better recruiting and national championships, but most of us take a measured sane approach to it. The sky isn’t falling with a 12-14 ranked class especially when none of us know what the portal will look like for 2025.
If we could land a class like Michigan's current class it would be much better but i'd hate to see where our class would be if we went 6-5 this past year...😳😳
 

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Turds like you would trade the 11-1 on the field product for a recruiting national championship. Too much of this nonsense.
I think its about maintaining the ability to go 11-1 with elite talent and depth. Aa opposed to 11-1 then 9-3, 9-3 etc
 

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I think its about maintaining the ability to go 11-1 with elite talent and depth. Aa opposed to 11-1 then 9-3, 9-3 etc
How the fuck do you think ND got to 11-1. When was the last time they had a top 5 recruiting class. They seem to be doing a pretty damn good identifying talent. Besides WR’s where is this team currently lacking and there is plenty of talent that will be in the portal.
 
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How the fuck so you think ND got to 11-1. When was the last time they had a top 5 recruiting class. They seem to be doing a pretty damn good identifying talent. Besides WR’s where is this team currently lacking and there is plenty of talent that will be in the portal.
Kicker and Punter
 

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How the fuck so you think ND got to 11-1. When was the last time they had a top 5 recruiting class. They seem to be doing a pretty damn good identifying talent. Besides WR’s where is this team currently lacking and there is plenty of talent that will be in the portal.
11-1 is a matter of scheduling and they should be 12-0. Its games 13+ we need to worry about.
 

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How the fuck so you think ND got to 11-1. When was the last time they had a top 5 recruiting class. They seem to be doing a pretty damn good identifying talent. Besides WR’s where is this team currently lacking and there is plenty of talent that will be in the portal.
They fucking got to this point by beating 10 teams we were favored to beat, 1 team as an underdog and losing to the 8th/9th worse team on the schedule to be exact. A few teams were not as good as expected when the schedule was made, but you can't bank on that happening is the point! You can bank on competing with the elite teams annually by bringing in top talent. The last time we had a top 5 class was when we played dor the championship. You ask where the team is lacking? Relative to right now a Pass rush, WRs, a reliable Punter and a reliable Kicker. As for the future still a Pash rush, reliable WRs, experience at QB, and a stud at DT. Yea, there is plenty of talent in the portal every year, but how many of those studs are we in play for is the question.
 

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11-1 is a matter of scheduling and they should be 12-0. Its games 13+ we need to worry about.
Exactly, but some of these ppl im convinced just watch the highlights on YouTube and not the actual games live or on TV.
 

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Happy this team is 11-1 and looks the part. We have as good as a chance to win the national championship as anyone.

But also success is strongly correlated with recruiting. Are there exceptions to the rule? Of course. But, by and large, better classes are better (duh).

So given our product on the field and given our recruiting product, the question becomes: should we be concerned? Or is our staff just really good at developing players and identifying diamonds in the rough? It’s only been 3 years of MFMF so it’s too early to tell. Personally, I do worry we are having an outlier season and the recruiting will catch up to us. Not hitting the panic button yet, but I think it’s fair to be concerned.
 

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Happy this team is 11-1 and looks the part. We have as good as a chance to win the national championship as anyone.

But also success is strongly correlated with recruiting. Are there exceptions to the rule? Of course. But, by and large, better classes are better (duh).

So given our product on the field and given our recruiting product, the question becomes: should we be concerned? Or is our staff just really good at developing players and identifying diamonds in the rough? It’s only been 3 years of MFMF so it’s too early to tell. Personally, I do worry we are having an outlier season and the recruiting will catch up to us. Not hitting the panic button yet, but I think it’s fair to be concerned.
We have a LOT of players outperforming players that were ranked much higher than them at their respective positions. Many of them are young. Our line is outperfoming even the most optimistic projections.

I’m sorry but our staff has earned the benefit of the doubt and i trust their talent evaluation and development more than a bunch of jock sniffing nerds that sit at a computer and write articles for a living.

When Jagusah got hurt we had way more “obvious” options at LT than an undersized, moderately ranked true freshman, yet here we are.
 

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Happy this team is 11-1 and looks the part. We have as good as a chance to win the national championship as anyone.

But also success is strongly correlated with recruiting. Are there exceptions to the rule? Of course. But, by and large, better classes are better (duh).

So given our product on the field and given our recruiting product, the question becomes: should we be concerned? Or is our staff just really good at developing players and identifying diamonds in the rough? It’s only been 3 years of MFMF so it’s too early to tell. Personally, I do worry we are having an outlier season and the recruiting will catch up to us. Not hitting the panic button yet, but I think it’s fair to be concerned.

I do think our staff is good at developing players.

Having said that, we do need to find a way to get some of these difference makers. The guys who Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia.....and evidently now, Michigan are getting.
 

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NIU doesn't matter anymore. Oregon is going to crush Penn State this weekend.
So if we beat NIU and we are the 5th seed, we lost to them we are still the 5th seed.
Let's move past that and win a MF National Championship.
 

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I don't think Oregon will crush Penn St. Could be wrong and I know we all dislike them greatly but they do play good defense. Oregon struggled with Wisconsin so I see this one no more than a 10 point game either way.

I'll be interested to find out but I also think it'll be a heavy crowd in favor of Penn St with the shorter trip. Still a good haul but it's a drive to Indy for Penn St. Not a flight like it is for Oregon
 

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Should I list the other teams that should have 11-1 records based on being favored but don’t?
You’re missing my point. Yay, we are 11-1… we have seen this and been here before. I’m grateful. But… The people screaming about how “different” things are and telling us to look at the results on the field miss or forget we are going to have to play a Top 12 team. Which will tell us how “different” and better we have it now.
 

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You’re missing my point. Yay, we are 11-1… we have seen this and been here before. I’m grateful. But… The people screaming about how “different” things are and telling us to look at the results on the field miss or forget we are going to have to play a Top 12 team. Which will tell us how “different” and better we have it now.
You guys are probably right. It’s exactly the same. Nothing has changed. Ignore all the statistics and actual literal data in the last three years comparing Kelly teams and Freeman teams.

Literally one “slightly above average” recruiting class and six (6) of you are overtaking every single thread to bitch and moan.

I literally read a post yesterday where someone—and I forget who it was or I’d tag their idiot ass…actually it was probably @JadedDomer—was arguing in THE SAME POST that we can’t rely on the portal to recruit and that we also aren’t doing well enough in the portal to recruit.

WE PROBABLY AREN’T EVER GOING TO DROP BAGS ON INCOMING FRESHMAN RECRUITS. EVER. Maybe we’ll get on board with some sort of compensation to incoming recruits as a part of their package, but if you’re expecting what ND does to parallel with what’s going on at big state schools, you’re going to continue to just twist your innards into knots.

You cee u next Tuesdays who want to keep going “but but but Michigan…” can fuck right off and trade your gold in for maize. This shit is not going to work out for them any better than it has for Tennessee…or Auburn…or A&M…

Fuck me, man. Can we just put a moratorium on this until the playoffs are over and we’re hoisting a natty?
 

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You guys are probably right. It’s exactly the same. Nothing has changed. Ignore all the statistics and actual literal data in the last three years comparing Kelly teams and Freeman teams.

Literally one “slightly above average” recruiting class and six (6) of you are overtaking every single thread to bitch and moan.

I literally read a post yesterday where someone—and I forget who it was or I’d tag their idiot ass…actually it was probably @JadedDomer—was arguing in THE SAME POST that we can’t rely on the portal to recruit and that we also aren’t doing well enough in the portal to recruit.

WE PROBABLY AREN’T EVER GOING TO DROP BAGS ON INCOMING FRESHMAN RECRUITS. EVER. Maybe we’ll get on board with some sort of compensation to incoming recruits as a part of their package, but if you’re expecting what ND does to parallel with what’s going on at big state schools, you’re going to continue to just twist your innards into knots.

You cee u next Tuesdays who want to keep going “but but but Michigan…” can fuck right off and trade your gold in for maize. This shit is not going to work out for them any better than it has for Tennessee…or Auburn…or A&M…

Fuck me, man. Can we just put a moratorium on this until the playoffs are over and we’re hoisting a natty?
To add to this. I am not so sure we want to be dropping bags for frosh. It looks fancy on signing day, but I could swear I have seen multiple "anonymous coaches' at the schools that are dropping talking about how their locker room dynamics have been adversely affected by this practice.

Also, listening to II podcast, John Brice said that we were probably going to have to change our expectations a bit on high school recruiting until there is a market correction on this process of throwing millions at high school students. While not every 3 star pans out, I do think that this class has earned a bit of the benefit of the doubt on their talent evaluations.
 

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Also, listening to II podcast, John Brice said that we were probably going to have to change our expectations a bit on high school recruiting until there is a market correction on this process of throwing millions at high school students. While not every 3 star pans out, I do think that this class has earned a bit of the benefit of the doubt on their talent evaluations.

Agreed, this is uncharted territory. Until we see how these NIL guys pan out, it's hard to know what the best ratio of paying up-front vs transfer portal vs guys who stick around and develop will be.

Remember Jimbo's lauded classes for Texas 8-4?

Michigan is feeling good now, but what happens if they struggle or get sanctioned & half their headliners transfer out?

(NOT giving a pass to our failure to close this year. Just saying blaming NIL isn't productive)
 
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