Someone remind me who they are. Thanks!

Coach Niele Ivey confirmed on Wednesday morning that the following five players will not be available for Friday's opener at Ohio U. and Sunday's home contest with Miami (Ohio): senior center Mikayla Vaughn, junior guard Katlyn Gilbert, sophomore forward Sam Brunelle and freshmen Nat Marshall and Amirah Abdur-Rahim.

Vaughn was expected to miss the first month after spring knee injury, and Marshall had ACL surgery last winter. Her status for this season is unknown.

Preseason All-ACC pick Brunelle has been slowed by a "nagging injury" that is more day to day for now. Gilbert and Abdur-Rahim are health situations that Ivey said she "can't disclose."

The starting lineup on Friday will feature junior transfer Dara Mabrey at the point, sixth-year senior Destinee Walker (last year's leading scorer), junior Abby Prohaska, sophomore Anaya Peoples and freshman Maddy Westbeld. Prohaska sat out last season because of pulmonary embolism.

Off the bench will be freshman guards Alasia Hayes and Alli Campbell.

USA Today had three entries labeled
O T O/U
3 1/2 5 67
It is clear what 3 1/2 and 67 mean but what is does the 5 mean?

For the UCF game the numbers were

25 25 67 1/2

Thanks.

Have I read Williams (329 lifetime carries https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4361579/javonte-williams) and Carter (474 lifetime carries https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4240657/michael-carter) STATS AND NEITHER OF THEM HAS EVER LOST A FUMBLED IN THEIR CAREER?

One is a senior and the other a junior and neither has EVER LOST a fumble and only Williams has fumbled this season once (but not lost it).

This is what the stats on ESPN.com seem to indicate.

Can that be true?

Maybe this Friday that all comes to an end...

Notre Dame Vs. North Carolina: On Paper


How Caleb Johnson Ended Up In Notre Dame’s 2021 Recruiting Class


Self-Assured Ben Skowronek’s Contributions Go Beyond Initial Impressions

Our own Patrick Engel is involved in this national roundtable discussion.

4 pm, ABC. There will be fans, but ticket info is still to come. Here's the release:

If you already watched/listened to our recruiting podcast, then this isn't anything new. But I cropped out the part where Patrick and I talked about Johnson as a player, with his senior tape in there as well.

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The message board is working fine but the Rivals network has had front page outages this morning. Tech team is aware and working on getting it fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: It appears that this is a widespread internet issue.

Over the past 30 years, their paths and careers have taken similar twists and turns while building strong mutual respect.
https://notredame.rivals.com/news/notre-dame-north-carolina-full-circle-coaching-reunion

UPDATE: Notre Dame is "squarely" No. 2, committee chair Gary Barta said. Updated story and analysis:

Worked out at WR at our 2019 Cincinnati camp. Cold windy day. No reps at DB, wish we could show something there, but he had a really strong day at WR.

Anyways, at least a look here at how he moves, catching ability, etc.

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Just watched the news joe Montana commercial. Anyone know where I can watch this video? @Lou Somogyi

I've always been more concerned about the NC game than I was about BC. The NC line started out ND -7 1/2 and has been shrinking since. Wonder if missing 2 starters on the O-line is the reason or something else (a big better, other), any thoughts???

It's one thing to have a down year, but to be preseason top 10 and about to go 0-5 is really amazing. They have been getting pushed around in every game so far on both sides of the ball. The only good news they have upcoming is that they play Michigan who might be their best chance for a win.

Great for him. Pretty cool clip here:

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what is NDs record on Friday games and how many regular season games have they played not on saturdays, I don’t remember many but I thought I just read a story about it recently

These guys have to be electro shocked to PRAY that Notre Dame loses to North Carolina. If ND plays Clemson in the ACC title game and the Irish play well and lose they are STILL one of the top 4 and everyone knows it. And ESPN is so in bed with the SEC they are terrified that the vaunted yearly overrated SEC won't get 2 teams in, god forbid, not the ACC getting 2 teams.

Watching these guys actually beg for North Carolina to beat ND and remove the two team ACC CFP scenario is comedy at its best. Man, the SEC sucking off year after year is beyond laughable on ESPN. I'm just waiting for them to claim that LSU is somehow good this year.

And Clemson avoiding having to play Florida State again and getting a bye before the Irish is just another example of the collective "keep the Irish out" groupthink. Because if Notre Dame doesn't cheat, graduates kids, plays real schedules, has player discipline AND is an elite team that scares the hell out of the other "elite" teams in college football.

Not a great day on the field with a 7-8-1 record. It's often also been a bye, and there has been only one victory on this day since 1945.

Bronze Medal, 2000: Freshman QB Matt LoVecchio finishes the regular season 7-0 as a starter by leading the Irish to a 38-21 win at USC (5-7), which has future Heisman winner Carson Palmer as the signal-caller. The victory clinches a Fiesta Bowl bid for the 9-2 and No. 10 Notre Dame team versus No. 5 Oregon State. About 10 days later, fourth-year head coach Bob Davie is rewarded with a five-year contract extension through 2005, while receivers coach Urban Meyer accepts the head coaching position at Bowling Green.

Silver Medal, 1922: An injury to senior star fullback Paul Castner forces Knute Rockne to start four sophomores in the backfield for the first time in a 19-0 victory in the snow at Carnegie Tech. Moving from halfback to fullback is Elmer Layden, while Jim Crowley is inserted at halfback with Don Miller, and Harry Stuhldreher is at quarterback. It is the first time the future "Four Horsemen" start together, with Stuhldreher, Miller and Layden all scoring.
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Gold Medal, 1920: Third-year head coach Rockne's Fighting Irish, which won a share of the national title a year earlier (9-0), finish unbeaten again (9-0) 100 years ago on this day with a 25-0 victory at Michigan State — the school Rockne was going to originally coach until Jesse Harper told him to stay and succeed him in 1918. Special teams produce a 95-yard TD on the opening kickoff by Danny Coughlin and a 25-yard blocked punt return by Eddie Anderson.

Johnson talks ND pledge: https://notredame.rivals.com/news/2021-cb-jojo-johnson-talks-notre-dame-commitment

Mason's Commit Impact: https://notredame.rivals.com/news/c...ng-jojo-johnson-means-for-notre-dame-football

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ND just announced it won't play Tennessee on Dec. 4 as scheduled due to COVID-19 issues within Tennessee's roster and coaching staff. Figured that might be coming once the Vols squashed their 12/2 trip to Indy to play Gonzaga. We'll see if Mike Brey adds another game. Here's the story that looks at a bit more:

# 10 on season

Some bits and important topics from Mike Brey's Zoom conference today:

On the status of the Friday, Dec. 4 game at Tennessee after positives within the Vols' program:

“I don’t know the status of that game now. You’re kind of waiting to see if that’s a game we can play. I hope we can play it. But we have to start thinking a little bit of plan B. Do we have to try and find a different game on that weekend of Dec. 5 or 6 if Tennessee can’t go. That’s really where I think college basketball is going to be in this non-league situation. It could be scramble mode.”

“I would be flexible to move the game to Saturday and Sunday just to get the game in…We’ve reached out to them.”

The Jeff Jackson coaching tree just added another branch. It will be interesting to see how Condra grows. He was a very smart player while at ND. Here is the press release:


The Chicago Blackhawks have hired Erik Condra as player development coach for the organization.

Condra will assist the Rockford IceHogs coaching staff in the skills development of current players, while also evaluating, assessing and scouting potential prospects.

Condra, 34, joins the Blackhawks following an 11-year professional playing career that included 362 regular-season games in the American Hockey League with the Binghamton Senators (2009-11), Syracuse Crunch (2016-18), Texas Stars (2018-19) and Colorado Eagles (2019-20). Condra totaled 88 goals and 159 assists for 247 points in the AHL, and won the Calder Cup with Binghamton in 2011. He served as team captain in Syracuse and was an alternate in Texas and Colorado.

Originally drafted by Ottawa in 2006, Condra also appeared in 372 NHL games with the Senators, Tampa Bay and Dallas, recording 40 goals and 59 assists for 99 points.