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For everyone making a big deal of my post. "Get Bent-" I was just pointing out what could be an awkward situation and one in which the new AD would have to rely on another finalist for success. No one sees the irony?

I am pretty loose on my language, judging from my posts........ Chaves or Manaussa should be a plus for FB. Dilly dilly-

Players of the game...... JMUs' pass receivers!! C'mon Man!!

Your word, torpedo. I would say donors will have to start the dating process, figure out who the new guy is. You guys act like million dollar checks are written on a wimb. The reality is these funds are tied up in earning assets. Upon a liquidation event big funds are available.

Could be right, still has to be awkward. Not for Cratter and UNDBIZ I guess.

I can see it now. Kennedy to Chaves, "Get me phase II, now!!" Chaves, "who are the big donors?" Kennedy, "I know a few but Manaussa has all the relationships built up from the past 20 years, but most big $$ wanted better leadership at the AD position". Chaves to Manaussa, "go make me look good." Manaussa to Chaves, "get bent" 4-5 years later, Chaves takes a position out west Awkward, and back to square 1.

If I did attend I would have stood and clapped. Nothing against Faison as a person. He meant well, did some good things, but just missing something for me. Met and spoke with him several times. Sat in the away suite at a FB game with him for a half. I have high expectations, he didn't quite meet them. He is at the end of his career, time to move ahead.

You probably bought a Kirby Vacuum from the door to door salesman cause you took him at his word. Check back in a few years-

Well not just the guy, but the perceived lack of giving a crap about ND. My guess is Faison will be harder to find than Keyser Soze after he walks away. And you might drop your coffee mug, too.

Really?? The president, AD, or respective head coach doesn't aid in sealing the deal, huh? I would guess every big donor considers leadership at the top level when giving. If a donor doesn't believe in leadership, that's a problem.

I think you can answer your own question-

My gut says this guy would deliver phase II in short order. After money, facilities, coaches, ND Culture, stability, how hard can your other "75%" be? Most don't know who and how others supported Faison.......not your fault for not knowing.

Pretty straight forward analysis, maybe a little generous to the outgoing OL class because Tom could of just wrote 'often injured and under performed'. I don't know if that was a player talent issue(25%), injury issue(25%), position coach issue(15%) or offensive coordinator issue of bland schematics and over complexity(35%), but we have to do better. (I left blame ratios) We need a young guy (or 3) to step up and play at a high level or 2018 will be another down year.

I am thinking a win based donation in 2018, like $50 - $100 per win. (Not including Mississippi Valley St., they should pay me to watch that game)

You don't think we are grounded after last year? You haven't read many posts, then. Ya, a long ways to go and we have gone over why ad nauseam.

No offense taken. For the record, Bubba himself was my special teams coach for 'punt return', just for a reference. At that time each coach took a special team and we didn't have a ST coordinator. Of course we were way tougher and complained a lot less than today's generation that plays football.

What years did you play? How many college punt returns were you on in your day? Tell me what the coaches say in those meetings then. So our punt block specialist is a 240 lb. D end. Got it! Thanks for stopping by.

I like Hunt, his folks are great people. Hunt didn't run into the punter on a punt safe.

Good add - the dreaded SB punt block. About that game - Stony Brook's defensive pressure, and punt rush, pretty much kicked our butt that entire game.

Special teams is truly a talent game. Linebackers that can run are a critical piece to that.......which we were depleted in for 2017. That is part of the reason kick coverage was pretty average. The other reason is our kicker was knicked up and he couldn't kick a touchback when he wanted nor get proper hang time. By all accounts kick return was decent as it's a main reason Santiago is an AA. (I guess other teams scoring so much on use helps in a weird way for return yards, too) Punt team is usually as good as the punter.......nothing Kostich can do besides get a better punter. Same with punt return, put someone back that's dangerous and when the opposing team has a bad punt, make them pay. And the big thing everyone is pissed about, is the roughing the punter call against Richmond. I guarantee you, know for a fact, "punt safe' was called. In a punt safe the only time we should go for a block is if the punter drops the snap. The player that committed the error is no longer on the team for being a habitual dumbass. You can't put that on Kostich. Kostich is a real positive for this program and I'll leave it at that.

For me it's the bad year on the field. It's hard to hype back up to previous levels after going from projected 1st to almost worst. Some feel regardless of the players we won't use their talent anyway. The staff has some proving to do, and credibility has to be earned back on the field of play.

Our Honorable Mention All American, Rastas, although he needs a huge off season if he's going to play with or ahead of some of these other guys. So Waters is signing??

Still computing my data. Then, have to stick data into my statistical hypothesis before reporting 3 scenarios of confirmatory data analysis. These things take time.

Minus the pot and challenging guys twice your size on the field.

Probably not athletic enough unless it's an outside backer that is considered "on" most of the time, meaning rushing the QB.