Get Nasty said:

Solid place to go… interested to see if they can maintain or fall off

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Solid get for Indiana.

I like it!

Good for him

chaseball said:

Yes industry vetted. He's a composite #60ish overall player ( multiple very large scouting organizations have scouted him and have him ranked as a high 4-star prospect on aggregate.) That's a lot of eye balls and a lot of expensive brands/reputations who vetted this prospect.

These recruiting ranking sites, when it comes to their scouting/grading of prospects hire a lot of ex industry insiders (scouts, front office/operations office talent evaluators, ex players and coaches, etc.) the nerds are building the databases and websites, but there's a lot of football people/players/insiders doing the grading of the talent.

Also, the Knapp situation is an outlier. If we broaden the sample size a bit, and looked at all Freshman 3 star players ranked around where Knapp was, he might be on a list of like 5 of the best diamond in the ruff freshman seasons ever.

These are super rare gifts from touchdown jesus himself. Players who did what Knapp & Moore (low 4 star) did this season. The other 70% of 3 star players recruited (and probably more than half of the low 4 star players recruited) don't ever take a meaningful snap at this level.

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Lol

Watts, Knapp, Alt, Moore, Love, Price, Cross, Mills ….all are “OUTLIERS” in your book

stu4don said:

"Industry vetted prospect"... You mean like Freshman All-American Anthonie Knapp? A low three star (#62 OL) who you probably said we should not have recruited.

Glad to have Merrill. But I will trust our coaches (who recruited 3*s Knapp, Moore) and not the 'industry' (a bunch of guys who never played the game, pecking away on their computers.)

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Yes industry vetted. He's a composite #60ish overall player ( multiple very large scouting organizations have scouted him and have him ranked as a high 4-star prospect on aggregate.) That's a lot of eye balls and a lot of reputable brands who vetted this prospect and graded him as one of the best players in his entire state and the #5 guy at his position in the nation (247, ESPN, Rivals, ON3, etc.).

These recruiting ranking sites, when it comes to their scouting/grading of prospects hire a lot of ex industry insiders (former coaches, players, scout, etc. from high school level through NFL) the nerds are building the databases and websites and the formulas, but there's a lot of football people/players/insiders doing the grading of the talent.

Also, the Knapp situation is an outlier. If we broaden the sample size a bit, and looked at all Freshman 3 star players ranked around where Knapp & Moore were, these two might be in the top 5 of greatest diamond in the rough true-frosh seasons ever.

These are super rare gifts from touchdown jesus himself (players who did what Knapp & Moore did this season). The other 70% of 3 star players recruited that were ranked as low as Knapp & Moore were don't ever take a meaningful snap at this level especially as a true-frosh

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echowaker said:

Costs money to lose in court. It'll never happen.
The court ruled 9-0 . What new argument could the NCAA possibly make to swing a 5 judge shift ? The horse is dead.

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The ruling was based on it being discriminatory. If the NCAA removes the discriminatory policy and includes all sports in the transfer rule, then it's a new case. How SCOTUS ruled previously is moot.

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Get Nasty said:

Hinish can’t be the starter

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Agreed.

Patrish said:

The NCAA is the ruling body for college athletics?
They set the rules and guidelines

I’m not so sure that reinstating the restriction on transfers and extending it to all sports would lose in court.

And I would ask, what’s the downside to reinstating the restriction on transfers and extending it to all sports.

If they lose in court, they’re no worse off than they are today

And if they win, it saves college football and basketball, the two primary drivers of revenue for all other sports.

It returns a high degree of stability to both primary and secondary sports.

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Costs money to lose in court. It'll never happen.
The court ruled 9-0 . What new argument could the NCAA possibly make to swing a 5 judge shift ? The horse is dead.

Telx1 said:

Would love to see Onye return and contribute day one. Read lots of positives about Mukam’s development this past Fall, and he would be my pick for earning some meaningful snaps. Really big Spring/summer for Young to add good weight and strength, as he got pushed around a lot in the NC game. And yes, we desperately need one of Traore or Botelho to be fully recovered and picking up where they left off…maybe asking too much for this to start the season.

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I didn’t see the movement you’d want in Mukam with his limited reps… I fear Dixon will be our first good interior dline recruit Washington has landed out of hs. Meaning portal again next year

THUNDERSTRUCK111 said:

I like your line up. Except Hinish.
I love the kids effort etc.
But we need a big Riley Mills / Jerry tillery etc type guy there. And a couple of those Louis Nix type guys for NT girth and hat on hat type stuff.
Jmo.

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Hinish can’t be the starter

Solid place to go… interested to see if they can maintain or fall off

Another W for Cignetti. I googled it

So IU is going for it. They got a few marquee transfers. They got Pat Coogan, the top C in the transfer portal. They got Fernando Mendoza, future #1 overall NFL draft pick who was the big prize, though I don't know why he picked IU he should have just stayed at Cal. And they got Holden Staes, ex-ND, ex-Tenn TE, who was pretty good, and I wish he hadn't transferred.

Maybe they'll make the playoffs again.

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IrishMike409 said:

Heckuva of a player. Wish he was coming back. But I get his decision.

He's the kind of guy who finds his way onto the field.

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Guy has a lot of heart. Loved his pregame speeches to the o line. Will be missed for sure.

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echowaker said:

They won't because they know they would lose once again in court. That ship has sailed....a long time ago. They have no authority to institute such a rule anymore.

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The NCAA is the ruling body for college athletics?
They set the rules and guidelines

I’m not so sure that reinstating the restriction on transfers and extending it to all sports would lose in court.

And I would ask, what’s the downside to reinstating the restriction on transfers and extending it to all sports.

If they lose in court, they’re no worse off than they are today

And if they win, it saves college football and basketball, the two primary drivers of revenue for all other sports.

It returns a high degree of stability to both primary and secondary sports.

Shakin' Down the Thunder said:

I think the best way to utilize the guys at the DT position is to have Rubio and Sevillano (forgot to mention him previous post) play together on 1st down and short yardage situations, as they'll probably be the two best against the run. Then you gotta figure out who's the best against the pass. Dawson will almost certainly be in on obvious passing downs and then we need someone from Hinish, Onye (another guy I forgot to mention) Hughes, Mukam, Vernnon or maybe even Young shifts inside to give us an adequate passing rush. Mills and Cross played way too much as season went on and I'm hoping to see a solid 4-5 man rotation at the DT position.

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I like sevillano myself. Wish he was more of a factor this season.
You are absolutely correct. Mills and cross played way too much. Way too much.
Saw them in many , many games this season when we had the game in hand.