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Even at ND he was making around $3 million a year.

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By the time he left Notre Dame his annual total compensation package was in the region of $7.5m.

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Who names their kid Boo?

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Someone who's a big fan of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

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2023 SEC Rushing leaders:

8. Montrell Johnson
10. Trevor Etienne
12. Logan Diggs
13. Dylan Sampson

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What happened with Logan Diggs at LSU? He looked very promising in his Freshman year at Notre Dame, before transferring home. Last I noticed, he had transferred again to Ole Miss.

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Notre Dame was Adidas for the longest time until recently when they switched

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The Irish were with Adidas for 16 years, then moved to Under Armor back in 2014. The uniforms are fine but by all accounts there are regular complaints about the quality of the footwear.

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If the Tigers don't make the CFP this season, BK is gone. Adios Amigo.
He will not be fired, but will either retire or voluntarily resign with a Settlement.
GTFO with all that "3 more Years" BS.

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Given that he's contractually due 90% of his remaining salary, if he is fired, why on earth would he even consider retiring (and passing up over $50m) or voluntarily resigning and settling for anything less than his guaranteed amount?

If asked to consider a settlement by LSU, would he and/or his agent not just say 'we already negotiated the 'settlement' when we signed the original contract: 90% of whatever salary is still left on the contract'?

Luke Kuechly would have committed to Notre Dame in a heartbeat had they offered him. Charlie Weis's staff didn't think we was good enough.

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Crud, will do so now

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DE, Boubacar Traore, may well be ND's best DL player this coming season. DT will be by committee. There is no one outstanding player there, but a lot of depth - more so than I can remember in my 25 years following the team.

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Notre Dame has done this the past 3 years while waiting on their near 5 star rated QB to develop last year.

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FWIW ND has gone with a one-year portal rental QB is three of the last four seasons. Jack Coan (Wisconsin) in '21, Sam Hartman (Wake Forest) in '23 and Riley Leonard (Duke) in '24.

In '22 they started Tyler Buchner and then when he got injured in the fourth quarter of the second game of the year, they had to start Drew Pyne for the rest of the regular season. Alabama and Missouri fans will understand how well that didn't go.

This year should see the winner of the competition between RS SO, Kenny Minchey and RS FR, CJ Carr. The latter is the favourite. That would hopefully give two full seasons of a home-grown QB. After that, we'll see.

There's been six college football games in Dublin this century. Navy played Notre Dame back in 2012, then in 2014 Penn State played UCF, and in 2016 Georgia Tech played Boston College.

Notre Dame were supposed to play Navy in 2020 but that was cancelled due to the Covid lockdowns, and rearranged for three years later.

Since 2022 they've had the 'Aer Lingus College Football Classic' each Week 0 to start the season. In 2022 it was Nebraska-Northwestern, in 2023 Notre Dame-Navy and in 2024 Florida State-Georgia Tech.

In 2025 it's scheduled to be Iowa State-Kansas State in Farmaggedon, and in 2027 it's Pittsburgh-Wisconsin. All of these games, with the exception of the 2014 one, have been at the Aviva Stadium, the home of the Ireland soccer and rugby national teams, which has a capacity for college football of around 47,000. (If and when an NFL game, likely a Pittsburgh Steelers game, is played here, it will almost certainly be at the 82,000 capacity Croke Park, Ireland's national (GAA) stadium).

The current series of games are sponsored by Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus, and supported by the Irish government. They basically pay the teams to come over here to help promote tourism to Ireland. Most of the tickets that go to US fans are sold via travel packages that usually involve at least a five day stay. And if you like golf, there's the option for an awful lot of that.

They've already had Notre Dame (several times), a Big Ten team, ACC teams and this coming summer Big 12 teams. I understand that they would love to bring over an SEC team, and given that Brian Kelly was here in 2012 (and involved in the planning for the 2020 game that never came to pass) it was an obvious avenue to explore with him.

Plus LSU is one of the SEC teams that is historically open to playing week 0 neutral site games (though I appreciate that recent results in them understandably impact fans' views on their suitability). If they do bring an SEC team over then I expect it would be against either a G5 or lower level P4 team.

Given the capacity of the Aviva Stadium, and the fact that the last two games have sold out, I can't see LSU-ND ever happening, as both fan bases are just too big when combined together. ND took a record 40,000 fans here in 2022 and LSU I would imagine could bring 20,000-30,000 at least, so the organisers would rather bring them both, if they could, but in different years.

I'd say you'd be more likely to see something like LSU-Memphis. LSU-Houston, or LSU-Purdue than an all SEC game with LSU, or LSU-ND, if it were to happen. The earliest it could happen is August 2026; if not then, then 2028 is the next open date.

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Favorites are 10-0 straight up

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That's not actually true. Favourites are 9-1 straight up.

Although Notre Dame opened as -1.5 point favourites over Penn State, by kickoff the line was Penn State -1.5. The Irish were the first underdog to win a game in the new twelve-team playoff.

And hopefully the second.