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ScooterIrish said:
I would imagine that is the case for every team....
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Yes, to an extent, but some of the other top teams have more high 4/5* players. We have Morgan, Nelson, Hoge, Bivin and Dexter Williams as players > .95 that will or may see the field this year. Yes, I know, these numbers don't matter too much, and we have several very close to .95, but, here's a quick look at the # of players > .95 (not looking at who will see the field):
Bama: 29
USC: 25
OSU: 19
ND: 9
UM: 9
LSU: 16
FSU: 16

Which two aren't like the others?
 
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Cowherd loves talking about ND, apparently.

(1) His comment about the "doo-lack" honor code is silly. I'm glad we have it, of course, but I doubt that it deters players from coming here. Similarly with single-sex dorms, no-girls-after-midnight, etc. Players are not required to live on campus after freshman year anyway.

(2) As for the academic requirements (as they exist now), it is well known that they narrow the pool of players we can recruit and thereby make it harder to get enough of the talent we need to compete for titles. How much they do this, though, is impossible to say without detailed data on players' SAT scores, thresholds at other schools, etc. This data exists but is obviously not going to be released by most schools (certainly not ND).

(3) He doesn't really think BK is in the same league as Meyer or Saban, does he? I ask you: have Meyer's OSU teams been so much more talented than BK's teams? And yet Meyer has typically gone 11-2 or 12-1, whereas we are often going 8-5, etc.

What do people think about this? Am I wide of the mark here?
 
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Cowherd loves talking about ND

I also don't think Mandell is that crazy for predicting that, I don't see it happening but BK has averaged about 9 wins a year at ND
 
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Talking shit about ND gets people to pay attention. Cowherd has been doing it for years. In fairness, all he really does is talk shit.
 
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NDgradstudent said:
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Cowherd loves talking about ND, apparently.

(1) His comment about the "doo-lack" honor code is silly. I'm glad we have it, of course, but I doubt that it deters players from coming here. Similarly with single-sex dorms, no-girls-after-midnight, etc. Players are not required to live on campus after freshman year anyway.

(2) As for the academic requirements (as they exist now), it is well known that they narrow the pool of players we can recruit and thereby make it harder to get enough of the talent we need to compete for titles. How much they do this, though, is impossible to say without detailed data on players' SAT scores, thresholds at other schools, etc. This data exists but is obviously not going to be released by most schools (certainly not ND).

(3) He doesn't really think BK is in the same league as Meyer or Saban, does he? I ask you: have Meyer's OSU teams been so much more talented than BK's teams? And yet Meyer has typically gone 11-2 or 12-1, whereas we are often going 8-5, etc.

What do people think about this? Am I wide of the mark here?
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If Cowherd wasn't knocking on ND, he would lose like 67% of his material and I stopped reading his stuff years ago, even though he actually had some good things to say in...2012...? That was the exception to the rule though. He banged the "ND is raaaacist" drum pretty hard after TW was fired.

Hansen from the SBT is kind of the same way, he seems to go out of his way to find fault with the program at times.
 
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Isn't Cowherd the same guy who admitted to using Rush Limbaugh's tactics?

I won't even watch the clips because it's pointless. He has an audience and a story that he predetermines and he runs with it. He looks at everyone else's approach and goes the other way, even if the story doesn't take him in that direction.
 
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I stopped listening to Cowherd after 30 minutes, when he said that nobody outside of NYC or LA knows basketball.

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Cowherd is the classic anti-opinion guy.

When people are high on ND and their trajectory, he's down on them... he's playing to the masses to get a reaction by disagreeing with them.

When people aren't talking as much about ND as legit contenders, Cowherd is talking them up, spouting his respect for Brian Kelly, and talking about how ND is one of the most athletic teams in the country and how they should win a championship if the breaks go their way.

He's up and down on ND in a two-year cycle, and it's been that way since BK got to ND.
 
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New benches, new lights for Notre Dame Stadium as construction project moves forward | Local | southbendtribune.com

SOUTH BEND — Football fans who arrive at Notre Dame Stadium on Sept. 10 for the Fighting Irish home opener vs. Nevada will notice some major changes: new steel benches in the upper bowl, new stadium lights and a brand-new press box now located on the east side of the stadium.

The three large buildings that are under construction adjacent loom over the east, west and south walls of the 86-year-old stadium. The blank wall where a 96-by-54-foot video board will be installed by next fall is clearly visible on the south building.

It's all part of the $400 million Campus Crossroads project to add three academic and student life buildings, with space for premium football seating atop two of them.

The project is on schedule and will be completed in August 2017, Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown said.

Here's what's new for the 2016 season:

• Stadium lights: The new LED lights are 55 percent more energy efficient than the old lights and have a life span of up to 100,000 hours, Brown said. They'll provide a more uniform light level across the playing field and can be instantly turned on or off, rather than requiring gradual turn on. The lights were installed by Musco Sports Lighting, the same company that provided temporary lighting in Notre Dame Stadium in the years before permanent lights were installed in 1997.

• Benches in the stadium's upper bowl have been replaced with galvanized steel benches clad in dark blue vinyl.

• The new press box will be in use this season on the top floor of the east building. It will seat fewer reporters than the old press box, which was on the west side. The new press box will seat 170, compared to 330 in the old one. A box for the Rev. John I. Jenkins, university president, and university guests will be on that same top floor, at the north end.

Areas for 2,000 to 3,000 premium seats are under construction on the top floors of the new buildings, but the premium seats won't be in use this season.

Business as usual

Fans who attended any home games last season will find the fan experience similar this fall, Brown said. There have been no changes to seat numbers, score boards or the entry gates.

On the Friday before each home game, plastic barricades will be moved and construction fences will come down, allowing fans access to all the stadium gates. The barricades and fences will go back up on Sundays, and work on the project will resume.

The Campus Crossroads project involves constructing three large new campus buildings adjacent to the football stadium, with space for premium football seating on the top floors of the east and west buildings. It's the most expensive project in Notre Dame history.

The project includes the nine-story Duncan Student Center, a study, fitness, career counseling and student activities building that is under construction on the west side of the stadium; the nine-story Corbett Family Hall, a new anthropology, psychology and digital media building that is rising on the east side; and the six-story music building on the south side.

The trio of buildings will include a hospitality club, premium indoor seating and open-air terraces with views inside the stadium.

The top three levels on the east and west buildings will provide premium seating during football games. Some of that space will be used by students for dorm dances and other events at other times.

New tunnel, reduced seating

More changes will be visible by the home opener in 2017.

A tunnel designated for the visiting team will be cut into the stands at the northeast corner of the field, near where the flagpole now stands and the Notre Dame Marching Band sits. The Notre Dame team will continue to enter and exit the field from the traditional north tunnel.

"Both teams won't be sharing the same tunnel anymore," Brown said. The new tunnel will lead to the visiting team's locker room.

After the new tunnel is created, the Notre Dame band will be moved to the stands in the north end zone. The student section will remain in the stadium's northwest corner.

Notre Dame Stadium's official seating capacity currently is 80,795.

The traditional redwood benches in the lower bowl will be replaced by next summer with the same galvanized steel benches covered with vinyl that are now in the upper bowl. When the new benches are installed in the lower bowl, the seats in those sections will be widened about 2 inches each: from an average of 16 inches wide to an average of 18 inches.

That will result in more comfort for fans, but a reduction in the number of seats. Even with the added premium seating, the total number of seats in the stadium when the project is complete is expected to be less than now. "It will be less than 80,000, including the premium seats," Brown said.

A precise figure for the future official seating capacity has not yet been announced.

By 2017, the university also plans to improve cellular service and install wifi service in Notre Dame Stadium.

About 750 construction workers are working on Campus Crossroads 10 hours a day weekdays, and about 500 workers also are working eight hours a day on Saturdays, Brown said.
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Wait, they're putting the band in the stands? Bad idea.
I realize many schools do this, and I can't pretend to understand enough about stadium acoustics to know if it will make any audible difference. But having the band piled into that corner of the end zone makes them feel almost like an active participant in the proceedings (which they are and should be), not a sideshow. Seems like a bad trade just to create a visiting team tunnel.
TBH ever since they started with the music it feels like they've been gradually diminishing the band's role in the game. Not a fan.
 
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stlnd01 said:
Wait, they're putting the band in the stands? Bad idea.
I realize many schools do this, and I can't pretend to understand enough about stadium acoustics to know if it will make any audible difference. But having the band piled into that corner of the end zone makes them feel almost like an active participant in the proceedings (which they are and should be), not a sideshow. Seems like a bad trade just to create a visiting team tunnel.
TBH ever since they started with the music it feels like they've been gradually diminishing the band's role in the game. Not a fan.
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Here here.

The first time I heard Crazy Train during the SC '11 game I was like WHAT!!!! No Way!

The second through twentieth I was like WTF!!! No More!

...and I'm ground zero demographic for that song.

Nothing says college football like the sound of drums and trumpets and the smell of bad concession food. More marching band and less NFL copycat samples for me please. I can wait 24hrs for the other experience.
 
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Here here.

The first time I heard Crazy Train during the SC '11 game I was like WHAT!!!! No Way!

The second through twentieth I was like WTF!!! No More!

...and I'm ground zero demographic for that song.

Nothing says college football like the sound of drums and trumpets and the smell of bad concession food. More marching band and less NFL copycat samples for me please. I can wait 24hrs for the other experience.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Spot on.
 
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