JohnboyND7

It may a bit but that's a risk im willing to take

For not knowing what it is you pretty well got it! If you do well and the firm likes you, it can turn into a job after graduation too.

Not sure i ever want to get to active in criminal stuff but I have secured a 2L summer job at a firm in Fargo. Happy to be a step closer to being able to get back to North Dakota after law school.

On Neflix.. Queens Gambit - chess/coming of age stuff. Very good. The English Game - show about early soccer growth among the working class in England. I really enjoyed it. On Amazon.. Generation War - German mini-series a bit like Band of Brothers/The Pacific. Pretty solid.

Perseverance pays off!

1. We must define elite. If that means top 5, then ND is elite. If it means...right there with Alabama, then lol I'm with you lol, because they obviously aren't there right now in the skill position areas. The lines seemed to do their job though which was a welcome sight. 2. Holy hell Ohio State was eye-opening lol. I still don't think they should've gotten in but that's philosophical based on number of games.

Big bummer there

I think they did the right thing, i think if they were going to leave ND out they should have went with Cincinatti. If you put ND and A&M's resume next to each other, one is a step above the other's. ND made a few mistakes early in the game and let it get away from them. Seems to be a trend in these high-profile games, ND and Alabama both got run out of the building by Clemson a couple years ago. Clemson got dominated by LSU last year. OU got murdered on live TV by Joe Burrow. ND's offensive line is banged up. Lost their star center in the BC game, his backup was hurt too and the guy who stepped in wasn't healthy either. And another lineman just got back from an appendectomy. Assuming those guys (starting center still out) are closer to 100%, I think they'll be fine. They aren't as good as Clemson or Alabama but they are still very good. Notre Dame doesn't have the skill players those teams have, so they are going to have trouble keeping up if their line is not humming along. They don't get many quick strikes like AL/Clemson do. I have a feeling Alabama and Clemson will both win comfortably. Ohio State could hang around since they have no wear or tear on them this year. It should help ND a lot that the Bama qb does not run the ball but damn...them receivers and that big RB lol. If I'm posting that night, please forgive the spelling errors and confusing syntax as the game goes on...my brain is going to have a lot of alcohol self-prescribed.

Once they had to settle for that field goal attempt I was assuming it'd be a bad day. Once they missed it I told my mom the game was over. You arent going to beat Clemson if you don't make them pay for their mistakes because you know they will make you pay for yours. Had they made the field goal, could have been a different game maybe. But overall a godawful display. I hope they miss the playoff and draw a game with OU or Florida. Really have no desire to go to the playoff only to play Alabama and get run off the field again.

Hopefully the good people of grand forks find an excuse to go over there for food more

What?

Don't look now but Clemson is in a dogfight

They have certainly fallen off as the season has went.

No. Neither of them is respected by the committee and won't be.

Big issue for schools regardless of whether they make donors mad...some people with tickets for years or decades will not renew tickets after a year of watching at home on TV. Hockey might be a bit better protected because its so much better in person, but watching a game from your couch with reasonably priced food and a six pack you bought for the cost of one beer at the Ralph is rather enticing once you get used to it.

Allegedly irritated some rather wealthy donors who might be cutting donations

They had just gotten a new organ when I was there the first time. Beautiful church. Mass before the game was lit AF. Packed like a State Funeral and everyone was a little drunk so there was big energy with the singing. Right, they do an eye test. But games matter to them too. They might believe Clemson is a top 4 team if ND beats them again but they aren't going to put a 2-loss Clemson in the playoff. Maybe Notre Dame and Clemson should both shut down their seasons until the playoff and claim they have serious outbreaks. They both have a strong enough resume to stay in and Clemson can't afford another loss but has some good wins.. It would be pretty fun to see how the Committee handled that. I dont like Ohio State but don't really hate them. I would hate if the committee put in a 5 win team whose best win is Indiana.

Big Ben better play until he's dead or I am ready to move on...which may be never.

I dont see why he would benefit from being on the bench for full seasons. I think he needs an off-season more than just about anyone in the league, but I dont see some significant benefit from sitting on the bench during prime years. Not sure what he'd learn from a veteran being in front of him. I dont think there has ever been a knock on his preparation or work ethic or anything like that. Still has a strong arm, moves around well enough. Just a bad bad year over in Philly that can't get over soon enough. I can't imagine him going anywhere, would be bizarre for Philly to cut him and they arent going to be high enough in the draft to get one of the franchise dudes, and even if they did, they still have a ton of huge issues on that team that aren't fixed by replacing him.

Yeah Biden isn't really cut out to be a dictator, besides, the House and Senate aren't going to be rubber stamping his agenda if it is remotely controversial. I'm with you on Harris. I'm not sure exactly what she is supposed to represent. Pence fit the "establishment conservative generic GOP governor" bill, Kamala fits the half black woman bill at best? I mean, no idea how he fell, could've been playing with a dog I suppose. I dont think it matters much unless they find out he has cancer or something and were trying to hide it.. Though it is amusing to see the media take it as Gospel after four years of questioning everything. All of the big ones but Fox will be complicit. Ben Rhodes bragged about how the previous administration could basically write the stories themselves because the media would pretty much copy them word for word. Jake Tapper and a couple others might occasionally do a good job to keep up appearances.

Bob Davie....the first of three very bad hires made in a row. The Pope might be infallible but the Admin down there certainly is fallible.

I've been there a couple times. 2016, terrible ND team, terrible seats, beautiful fall day and was absolutely the most magical day of my life. Beautiful campus. Tailgating everywhere. Lots of tradition everywhere you look. 2018, updated stadium. Good seats. Pretty winter day. Snow everywhere. Awesome experience again though I may have had a couple beverages too many before we got to our seats. Should be on every college football fan's bucket list I think. Pretty unique deal over there. The town itself is kinda a dump, but the campus is extraordinary and the stadium and the gold helmets and all that make it special.

Your post implied the rallies were wrong about enthusiasm. There was a ton of enthusiasm, substantially more than I think many expected. The rallies showed that the hype was real. If UND runs a new offensive system in hockey because the old system isn't scoring enough goals, and they score a ton of goals throughout the season, and lose in the championship game 6-5, are you going to claim that because they didn't win the championship, the change in offensive system didn't have its desired effect? Or will you reach a much more reasonable conclusion that the objective of the new strategy was to score more goals, and that the more goals you score the more likely it is that you'll win games? I don't understand the weird infatuation with "Ruddy" or what he has to do with rallies being effective or indicative of enthusiasm or your inability to see a world beyond binary outcomes. If I eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and lose a game of monopoly later, I suspect your analysis would be "well obviously eating the sandwich was the wrong choice because he lost the game later, the guy he lost to ate a hot dog so he should have eaten a hot dog."

Lol I think its safe to say there was big enthusiasm. He grew his vote totals by like 10 million votes. Pretty sure very few Presidents have pulled that off. Genuinely curious, how do you consistently draw really weird and objectively wrong conclusions?

Idk how the committee puts in a team playing half as many games as the others, and without a single big win. If they put OSU in, I think they will basically be telling everyone that your record doesn't really matter as long as we think you look like a good football team. Someone did a statistical breakdown on this a few years ago. Basically the conclusion was ND is underrated just as often as they are overrated. They have a unique position in college football as an independent with a large following, leads to many haters. The biggest problem I have with the haters is they apply a standard that only seems to apply to Notre Dame. ND got beat by Clemson a couple years ago in the playoffs and immediately everyone goes "SEE THEY DONT BELONG!" The following week Clemson beats the piss out of Alabama and nobody says "Alabama doesn't belong." Notre Dame in 2012 has a magical season of close wins and makes it to the national championship. Gets steamrolled by Alabama, the consensus is that Notre Dame doesn't belong. Conveniently, people ignore that a ton of the title games in the BCS system weren't competitive games. Heck, Alabama only got in because Kansas State and Oregon (two teams ND would have likely beat) both got upset late in the season. Notre Dame isn't Alabama, Ohio State, or Clemson right now in terms of recruiting and in the modern game, they probably never will be unless recruits are listening to their mothers, but they are right in the top 5-10 programs in the country. This year, there are only two teams I think are better than them, Alabama and Clemson. I think they'd beat Ohio State, OSU has a pretty average defense and Notre Dame has proven that they can slow down high powered offenses and ND's offense is pretty well balanced at this point so they can move the ball against pretty much anyone. They are much less flashy than the other high end teams and have less depth, but they can probably play with anyone now.