Notre Dame (football only discussion)

[jwinslow]

Notre Dame football: Kelly clears Rees for workouts -- for now

"They are cleared to stay in school. They've been cleared from me to participate in all workouts," Kelly said Monday at the Irish Legends Charity Golf, Dinner and Auction Classic at Lost Dunes Golf Club.

"When all of these things come together, we're not going to wait a long time. We're going to try to get this thing to the point where we know exactly where they are. We want to move and get all of this done."

Star receiver Michael Floyd, the last Irish standout football player to find the media spotlight for off-the-field issues, was suspended from all football-related activity indefinitely by Kelly last March after being arrested for drunk driving. It was Floyd's third alcohol-related offense during his time at ND.

Kelly eventually allowed Floyd to attend summer school and work out with his teammates, provided he meet certain conditions. He also implemented a zero-tolerance policy during that time. Kelly lifted those conditions just before the Irish began fall training camp last August.

"It's never a one-size-fits-all situation," Kelly said. "This is over 20 years of me being a head coach and having to look at each individual and what the sanctions are.

"We've gotten all of the reports. I've gotten a chance to meet with both of them, and we'll get this thing rolling."

 

[Poe McKnoe]

I can see why kids may want to play at Notre Dame under Brian Kelly.

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

I can see why kids may want to play at Notre Dame under Brian Kelly.

The reason still escapes me why a parent would want their kid playing for this clown.

 

[muffler dragon]

Rather substantial difference between Kelly and Urban on how they've dealt with athletes and legal issues lately.

 

[VBSJ]

Notre Dame nears decision on new NBC deal

I sincerely hope that NBC "low-balled" Notre Dame or gave them the same deal.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...sion-on-new-nbc-deal-20120627,0,7786513.story

Relatively soon, Jack Swarbrick expects Notre Dame will make a decision on a potential new media deal with NBC.

Swarbrick said Wednesday that Notre Dame will conclude in the next month or so whether now is the right time to strike a new deal, or if it is more beneficial to wait until the current deal crawls nearer to expiration in 2015.

 

[TDunk]

I sincerely hope that NBC "low-balled" Notre Dame or gave them the same deal.

The key point is NBC has no college football foothold besides ND. The Army AA game only brings in so much, same for the lower sub divisions. They may over bid just to have a finger still left grasping the cliff that CBS, ABC (and defective child), and FOX control. So who knows how the Rudy channel will react to the playoff news.

 

[cincibuck]

Maybe they can get a deal where one of the four playoff spots has to go to the Irish in a Bowl that NBC covers...

Frankly, ND better be looking for a conference slot. They should have joined the Big East, a conference they could have dominated. their participation would have been all the medicine that sick puppy needed to stay alive.

 

[Oh8ch]

To have credibility any playoff system has to respect tradition. Great teams need to be included even if recent history does not support it.

To that end, a four team playoff should include Notre Dame, Michigan, Harvard and whoever is #1 in the USA Today poll.

 

[cincibuck]

To have credibility any playoff system has to respect tradition. Great teams need to be included even if recent history does not support it.

To that end, a four team playoff should include Notre Dame, Michigan, Harvard and whoever is #1 in the USA Today poll.

HARVARD!!!??? See here, young man, my Yale Bulldogs hold a distinct advantage over those priggish, overrated, in-bred twits.

Harvard hath won but 36. We have prevailed 54 times and 8 have been declared a dead heat. Why Harvard hasn't even held a home field advantage so great has been our footballing skills.
Any 1875 1981 98 0.408 36 54 8 9.37 12.06
Home 1878 1980 44 0.443 17 22 5 10.27 11.84
Away 1875 1981 46 0.424 18 25 3 9.57 12.50
Neutral1883- 1894 8 0.125 1 7 3.25 10.75

We wouldn't mind having a go at those Irish as long as they're the right type, with lace curtains, tea at four, and with just a dram of Bushmill's on the side, thank you. As for those backwoodsmen/lumbering lumberjacks from that Johnny-come-lately part of the wild west, Michigan, not till they stop picking their noses in public and wiping them on their sleeve.

 

[Woody1968]

HARVARD!!!??? See here, young man, my Yale Bulldogs hold a distinct advantage over those priggish, overrated, in-bred twits.

Harvard hath won but 36. We have prevailed 54 times and 8 have been declared a dead heat. Why Harvard hasn't even held a home field advantage so great has been our footballing skills.
Any 1875 1981 98 0.408 36 54 8 9.37 12.06
Home 1878 1980 44 0.443 17 22 5 10.27 11.84
Away 1875 1981 46 0.424 18 25 3 9.57 12.50
Neutral1883- 1894 8 0.125 1 7 3.25 10.75

We wouldn't mind having a go at those Irish as long as they're the right type, with lace curtains, tea at four, and with just a dram of Bushmill's on the side, thank you. As for those backwoodsmen/lumbering lumberjacks from that Johnny-come-lately part of the wild west, Michigan, not till they stop picking their noses in public and wiping them on their sleeve.

What about Oklahoma? They stole your song!

 

[cincibuck]

What about Oklahoma? They stole your song!

Along with land. Ruffians should never be allowed to play a gentlemen's' game. Boolah, boolah!

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

:golf clap:

 

[Zippercat]

:golf clap:

Wasn't Tiger Woods afraid of catching that?

 

[ucfknight]

Maybe they can get a deal where one of the four playoff spots has to go to the Irish in a Bowl that NBC covers...

Frankly, ND better be looking for a conference slot. They should have joined the Big East, a conference they could have dominated. their participation would have been all the medicine that sick puppy needed to stay alive.

I don't understand how ND is allowed to have every other sport in the Big East, but not football. Same goes for the other teams coming over for football/basketball only. If their gonna commit, do it fully or get out. ND is too worried about the money to join a conference because they still believe their relevant in football.

 

[JBaney45]

I don't understand how ND is allowed to have every other sport in the Big East, but not football. Same goes for the other teams coming over for football/basketball only. If their gonna commit, do it fully or get out. ND is too worried about the money to join a conference because they still believe their relevant in football.

Because conferences bend over and allow it to happen..more or less