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LB Marcus Freeman (HC Notre Dame, Constant Backtracker)

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Trying to make that my point as well. Doubt whether ND even HAS a Center for Slavic and East European Studies Department. Large state universities can offer a plethora of subjects/majors that wouldn't even be a single course at the smaller 'more focused' universities. Remember when tOSU had to cut costs and was saddened to cut 'Eskimo Studies' from it's curriculum. Only 6 (?) students there, but hey, to each his own. Believe you when you said you had to work your a** off to stand out amongst the myriad of students/levels, and the 'publish or perish' of the professors themselves. You seemed to turn out pretty well, no? Definitely advantages to a larger university, plus tuition won't break the bank. Daughter went to BIOLA, and cost us over $250,000......
 
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calibuck said:
Trying to make that my point as well. Doubt whether ND even HAS a Center for Slavic and East European Studies Department. Large state universities can offer a plethora of subjects/majors that wouldn't even be a single course at the smaller 'more focused' universities. Remember when tOSU had to cut costs and was saddened to cut 'Eskimo Studies' from it's curriculum. Only 6 (?) students there, but hey, to each his own. Believe you when you said you had to work your a** off to stand out amongst the myriad of students/levels, and the 'publish or perish' of the professors themselves. You seemed to turn out pretty well, no? Definitely advantages to a larger university, plus tuition won't break the bank. Daughter went to BIOLA, and cost us over $250,000......
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Without academic and athletic scholarships we were looking at $200K for Taylor. Glad the kid is transferring. The quality of education was not what I’d call a good value, even with the the scholarships. I spent a semester there coaching this past spring and saw things first hand and _really_ question the place of (most) small private education(s) relative to research institutions. Each their own, I guess… but for the second (and last) kid in the house that I’ll fund for undergrad, I’ll strongly push against small / private schools.
 
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And again, the whole thing buys into the myth that ND doesn't recruit the exact same kids that we recruit and that ND doesn't make room for that generational 5* player with 900 on his SAT in the same way that we do. When Rosen at UCLA made comments about this subject, there was a reference to the football SAT scores at all the PAC schools (not sure how they got them) linked on the MWC forum, and Stanford's average football player SAT was around 1070, the highest in the PAC. By the way, that 1070 is 300 points lower than an average normal freshman.....at Ohio State.
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Just out of curiosity, is that 1370 for non athletes at Ohio State?
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Just out of curiosity, is that 1370 for non athletes at Ohio State?
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Overall freshman class. It took a dip to around 1340 with the COVID class because Ohio State underestimated what their yield would be, accepted too many kids and ended up with a freshman class over 8,000. It should be back to in the 1360-1370 range with the Fall's class.

Personally, I think the freshman class should be capped at 6K. That's mainly because I think 7K is just too big, but if we did, that would also bump the average SAT over 1400 and into the realm of Berkeley, tsun and UVA.
 
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Bible Institute of Los Angeles - BIOLA. Small Christian University in North Orange Co. Good education, daughter did well after transferred into business program. Swam all four years there, NAIA, not USC/UCLA etc. Hated the drive down there though. Maybe why Thump never heard of it? No frats or sororities, so bet he'd have been bored. Oh yeah, each student comes out with a Religious Studies minor.
 
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Notre Dame football: Marcus Freeman cites recruiting, centralized culture as foundation for national titles

“I think there’s two things we talk about often, one is that’s the talent acquisition,” Freeman said. “We have to continue to recruit against the best teams in the country. We gotta believe that we are getting the best players in the country that fit this place and we can’t settle for anything less. And so that’s the one way that you’re gonna immediately be able to enhance your opportunities to win is enhancing your roster and getting the best players in the country that fit this place.”

“The second part is continuing to, I say it all the time, centralize our culture,” Freeman continued. “And what [that means] is that we’re all in this thing together. It’s not a hierarchy, it’s a group of individuals that are coming together for a common goal and you know that we’re gonna be a family. We’re gonna be able to really become one in terms of the players, the coaches, that we’re gonna have such an authentic relationship that we’re willing to fight for each other when things get really really hard because it’s a real relationship. And you know what, when we’re pushing our players to hold the standards that we have, it’s not gonna be personal. What’s personal is winning and losing and they have to understand that we’re a family and we’re in this together, so when we push em’ they have to understand that we’re doing it to help them which ultimately is gonna help our program and so if we can continue to recruit those best players in the country that fit this place and continue to centralize our culture and get these guys to choose to love each other and sacrifice for each other I think greatness is really destined for us.”

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...ldgWgC8gpn9gAOLxjYc-b0xQ6tIfPXPnhyUI1Z291UEWI

Just sayin': Nothing revolutionary there, it's just that it is easier to say than to actually accomplish.
 
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Marcus Freeman Talks Loss To Ohio State, Need To Finish Better

On his takeaway from the game:

"We've got a good football team, (but) we've got to learn how to finish, and that's what I just told them. You can't be surprised when all of a sudden, it's in 10-7 ball game midway through the third quarter against a really, really good football team; don't be surprised. That's got to be the expectation for this group. Now we have to learn to finish."

On finishing:

"They battled the entire game .... We didn't execute late in the game when we had to, we didn't execute the way we needed to. We had a challenge to win the fourth quarter, we didn't win the fourth quarter. They scored with 13 seconds left in (the) third and they scored at the end of the fourth, and we didn't respond, and we didn't keep them out of the end zone. .... So, we've got to finish. We've got to be able to finish and execute in the fourth quarter.

Entire article: https://www.si.com/college/notredam...alks-loss-to-ohio-state-need-to-finish-better

I have to give Marcus credit, he had his team ready to play at the opening kickoff and they gave Ohio State all they wanted through (basically) 3 quarters. I think in the end, Ohio State's depth and their many "better players" just wore Notre Dame down, and finally came through in the 4th quarter. Notre Dame did keep it to a one score game until 4:51 in the 4th.
 
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