ESPN GAME DAY

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5385]

20 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Gameday isn’t getting rid of anybody while adding Saban. With the guest panelist, that puts seven people on the dais. 
 

Didnt pat mcaffee confirm he is leaving gameday a while back, to deafening cheers?

[Hook1997 5263]

37 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Didnt pat mcaffee confirm he is leaving gameday a while back, to deafening cheers?

He talked about possibly not doing it next year but I doubt he quits or they let him go.  Like it or not old white guys aren’t his demo, he brings a younger viewership.  I’m not fan of his show because it’s too much but he gets damn near one million viewers every day.  

[Royale with cheese 1431]

5 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

He talked about possibly not doing it next year but I doubt he quits or they let him go.  Like it or not old white guys aren’t his demo, he brings a younger viewership.  I’m not fan of his show because it’s too much but he gets damn near one million viewers every day.  

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American viewer.

[billfromlaketravis 11328]

Pat was already hosting his daily show from the Gameday sites right? I could see ESPN building that out, and Pat appears on a segment or two on Gameday. 

Saban is a big enough personality to replace Pat and Corso. It wouldn't take much to improve the show. I think this the nudge they needed. 

[TKthunder2 4973]

On 2/9/2024 at 8:23 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Pat was already hosting his daily show from the Gameday sites right? I could see ESPN building that out, and Pat appears on a segment or two on Gameday. 

Saban is a big enough personality to replace Pat and Corso. It wouldn't take much to improve the show. I think this the nudge they needed. 

So who do you think put the mascot head on? That’s the iconic bit they aren’t going to retire with Corso. You need a big personality to pull that off. McAfee is the obvious person. Desmond, Kirk, or Saban ain’t doing it. At one time I thought Mack Brown might be able to pull it off but then he went back to coaching…

[billfromlaketravis 11328]

30 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

So who do you think put the mascot head on? That’s the iconic bit they aren’t going to retire with Corso. You need a big personality to pull that off. McAfee is the obvious person. Desmond, Kirk, or Saban ain’t doing it. At one time I thought Mack Brown might be able to pull it off but then he went back to coaching…

Desmond is ‘garded. Herbstreit will do literally anything for money. I’d start there. 

[TKthunder2 4973]

23 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Desmond is ‘garded. Herbstreit will do literally anything for money. I’d start there. 

Herby won’t do it because he calls many of those big games so he won’t pick them.

Desmond won’t do it because they are (rightly or wrongly) overly concerned with not making the only black guy on the panel be the clown (no CR).

I get many don’t like McAfee but the simple solution is the obvious solution. Occam’s Razor says McAfee is going to be the guy that puts on the mascot head when Corso finally makes his exit. People just need to get used to that idea.

[markstanco 12464]

I think Saban will actually be a plus addition and will be able to be more loose and funny now that he's not wearing the coach hat.  Can he please replace MClownAfee?

No! I like his energy. But if you want a bunch of old people running CGD, it will die fast. Maybe the CW channel game day with andy griffin and leave it to beaver will be the bookends on your hopeful programming.

[markstanco 12464]

I hope they put in Saban's contract that he has to wear the mascot head at the end of the show. 

Probably won’t do that in year one but I like your thinking. That would be great.

[Horn of Gabriel 1582]

On 2/11/2024 at 10:38 PM, markstanco said:

No! I like his energy. But if you want a bunch of old people running CGD, it will die fast. Maybe the CW channel game day with andy griffin and leave it to beaver will be the bookends on your hopeful programming.

LOL I'm in my 40's, so I guess I am an old now.  I don't care about the age of the people on CGD, I care about how stupid they are, and McAfee is 100% an idiot.  Don't care if it's an act or genuine stupidity, or if ESPN has decided that turning on dumb-mode is how to attract a majority dumb audience.  Not for me, or many others.  But I guess the WWE crowd enjoys it.

[LTtxfan 48823]

Where will College GameDay visit each week of the 2024 season?

With all SEC games now under the Disney umbrella, will college football's preeminent pre-game show 'Just Mean More' more often?

ZACH BARNETT        11 HOURS AGO

It's a new era in college football and in college football television coverage, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.

The SEC has completed its acquisition of most of the original Big 12's value by adding Texas and Oklahoma to Missouri and Texas A&M. The Big Ten pilfered the Pac-12 the way the ACC once did to the Big East by plucking USC and UCLA, and then Oregon and Washington. We'll see if it stop there, but I doubt it.

Off the field, the SEC is now essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. ESPN has long held the SEC's second- and third-tier rights in addition to being a partner on SEC Network, but now the conference's top-tier games will air on ABC. This action actually follows the re-action, the Big Ten has left ABC/ESPN, mimicking an NFL model with games airing on Fox, CBS and NBC. 

In a world where ESPN and its parent company are all-in on the SEC, how often will ESPN's three-hour hype machine visit a game it doesn't own the rights to? The best indicator of future behavior is past performance, so in that light:

-- In 2023, GameDay visited 6 non-ESPN games: No. 6 Ohio State at No. 9 Notre Dame (NBC), No. 7 Penn State at No. 3 Ohio State (Fox), No. 14 LSU at No. 8 Alabama (CBS), No. 8 Oregon at No. 13 Utah (Fox), No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Michigan (Fox), and No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 1 Georgia (CBS). Two of those games would be ABC properties if played this fall, while one GameDay site visit (No. 8 Oregon at No. 7 Washington) would've been lost to Fox.

-- In 2022, GameDay crossed streams 7 times, but that number drops to 4 when applied to 2024.

-- In 2021, GameDay left ESPN on 6 occasions, and still would've left 6 times when applying today's rules. 

Lest we apply Good Old Days Syndrome here, GameDay broadcast from games outside of ABC/ESPN roughly 25 percent of the time from 1996-98. They now leave the friendly confines of the Disney family roughly a third of the time. Or at least they did until now. 

Week 1 (Aug. 31)

This feels like an easy choice: No. 19 Clemson vs. No. 1 Georgia in Atlanta. If those rankings hold, it'll be Clemson's lowest pre-season ranking since 2011, when the Tigers were unranked. If this holds, Georgia will be the first back-to-back preseason No. 1 since Alabama did it in 2021-22, and since Clemson did it in 2019-20. That's a long way of saying this game serves as an interesting bookend on the 2021 season-opener, when No. 5 Georgia upset No. 3 Clemson 10-3. That was the beginning of the beginning for Georgia's back-to-back title rusn, and the beginning of the end for Clemson. At least for now.

Week 2 (Sept. 7)

It's the defending national champs, the nation's first look at a post-Harbaugh Michigan, hosting a "back" Texas led by a Heisman-candidate quarterback in their first visit to the Big House. That's enough for ESPN to cross the iron curtain: No. 4 Texas at No. 13 Michigan.

Week 3 (Sept. 14)

Not a great week. There are a couple SEC options (Texas A&M at Florida, Georgia at Kentucky) but this feels like the right time to check in on post-Saban Alabama as they make their first trek to Camp Randall since 1928: No. 9 Alabama at Wisconsin.

Week 4 (Sept. 21)

This is the week our Brave New World begins in earnest: USC at Michigan, Northwestern at Washington, Cal at Florida State, Utah at Oklahoma State. The thought here is GameDay celebrates by making its first visit to Norman since 2020 for No. 16 Tennessee at No. 14 Oklahoma.

Week 5 (Sept. 28)

Mark it in blood: Washington at Rutgers. Oh, wait, no. Bandage up that finger, then mark this one in blood: No. 1 Georgia at No. 9 Alabama.

Week 6 (Oct. 5)

If we're projecting based purely off of 2023, Michigan at Washington is an easy choice. However, I'm skeptical Washington will instantly gel as, essentially, an expansion team with an entirely new roster and coaching staff. Let's make the safe choice and send Rece, Kirk and co. to Tallahassee for No. 19 Clemson at No. 15 Florida State.

Week 7 (Oct. 12)

GameDay has been in Dallas for the Red River Shootout for two of the last three seasons, so it'd take something special for the show to skip the State Fair of Texas, especially with both teams in the preseason top-15. We have something special in Week 7 with No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon.

Week 8 (Oct. 19)

The suits in Bristol will have an eye on Red River, and they're probably rooting for Texas because the following week brings us No. 1 Georgia at No. 4 Texas. 

Week 9 (Oct. 26)

We've reached our third straight week with a game pitting preseason top-10 teams, and the fourth in the last five. That will mean nothing by this point in the season, but this might: if they can defeat Texas A&M on the road and Auburn at home, the Tigers will very likely prowl into Tuscaloosa undefeated: No. 7 Missouri at No. 9 Alabama.

Week 10 (Nov. 2)

Another week, another matchup of preseason top-15 teams. Two, in fact. Are you sensing a theme yet? Some would say the Power 2 and the networks are actively creating a haves/have nots dynamic; they would retort that such a world already existed, and they acted accordingly. Either way, here's betting that GameDay bypasses No. 3 Oregon at No. 13 Michigan for its co-favorite matchup of all-time (12 appearances): No. 2 Ohio State at No. 8 Penn State.

Week 11 (Nov. 9)

This week's schedule could easily send GameDay to yet another SEC locale, with No. 6 Ole Miss set to host No. 1 Georgia. Or its other all-time favorite matchup, No. 9 Alabama at No. 12 LSU. While we've been loading GameDay up with one big brand, we've neglected another: No. 15 Florida State at No. 6 Notre Dame. After opening at Texas A&M, the Fighting Irish will be double-digit favorites each week except for Louisville heading into this game.

Week 12 (Nov. 16)

Week 12 gives us one matchup of ESPN's preseason top 16, and it's Tennessee at Georgia. GameDay isn't following the Dawgs for a fourth time, for this game. That leaves a vacancy for... your guess is as good as mine. Kansas at BYU? FIU at Jacksonville State? Boise State at San Jose State? Those are serious questions. Let's take a shot in the dark and say Troy at Georgia Southern.

Week 13 (Nov. 23)

Look, I know. I get it. I'm sick of it, too. It's too much! Fourteen of ESPN's preseason top 25 hail from the SEC and the Big Ten, and those 14 teams play each other a combined 25 times. But is GameDay going to skip No. 9 Alabama at No. 14 Oklahoma, airing on its network, for UCF at West Virginia? 

Week 14 (Nov. 30)

The easiest choice on the board. We don't know what shape the visitors will be in when they arrive, but it doesn't matter. In fact, in some ways the more losses they have, the greater the stakes for the home team. No team has ever had more monetary pressure to beat a specific opponent and then win a national championship than this outfit, which is why for the fourth year in a row, GameDay will be at No. 13 Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State. 

Week 15 (Dec. 7)

Actually, on second thought, this is the easiest choice on the board. If Vegas took bets on such a thing, they'd have to place the odds at -10000 on the chances that GameDay is anywhere other than Atlanta for the first SEC Championship on its air since 2000. 

So, there you have it. At first blush, that's six non-ESPN games in 15 weeks, in line with past seasons -- five Big Ten games, plus one trip to South Bend. 

 

 

[Horn of Gabriel 1582]

The funniest thing about realignment putting the SEC fully under the ESPN banner will be Herbstreit trying to maintain his "I'm a real journalist, we're not biased in favor of anyone and its outrageous that anyone would suggest that" facade.  What a pompous ass, shut up and go read the narrative the suits want you to read.

[66BUFF 2543]

4 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

The funniest thing about realignment putting the SEC fully under the ESPN banner will be Herbstreit trying to maintain his "I'm a real journalist, we're not biased in favor of anyone and its outrageous that anyone would suggest that" facade.  What a pompous ass, shut up and go read the narrative the suits want you to read.

ESPN

 

Herbie

[Texas Wahoo 3382]

College Station Week 1 - Notre Dame on ESPN/ABC is too big a draw.

 

 

[LonghornSean 3938]

Hang the banner

[Vito Andolini 9067]

Stupid shit alert: our opener against Colorado State 8/31 will be at 2:30pm on ESPN. Dumb as fuck. 

 

Edited May 14 by Vito Andolini

[markstanco 12464]

On 5/8/2024 at 8:35 PM, LTtxfan said:

Where will College GameDay visit each week of the 2024 season?

With all SEC games now under the Disney umbrella, will college football's preeminent pre-game show 'Just Mean More' more often?

ZACH BARNETT        11 HOURS AGO

It's a new era in college football and in college football television coverage, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.

The SEC has completed its acquisition of most of the original Big 12's value by adding Texas and Oklahoma to Missouri and Texas A&M. The Big Ten pilfered the Pac-12 the way the ACC once did to the Big East by plucking USC and UCLA, and then Oregon and Washington. We'll see if it stop there, but I doubt it.

Off the field, the SEC is now essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. ESPN has long held the SEC's second- and third-tier rights in addition to being a partner on SEC Network, but now the conference's top-tier games will air on ABC. This action actually follows the re-action, the Big Ten has left ABC/ESPN, mimicking an NFL model with games airing on Fox, CBS and NBC. 

In a world where ESPN and its parent company are all-in on the SEC, how often will ESPN's three-hour hype machine visit a game it doesn't own the rights to? The best indicator of future behavior is past performance, so in that light:

-- In 2023, GameDay visited 6 non-ESPN games: No. 6 Ohio State at No. 9 Notre Dame (NBC), No. 7 Penn State at No. 3 Ohio State (Fox), No. 14 LSU at No. 8 Alabama (CBS), No. 8 Oregon at No. 13 Utah (Fox), No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Michigan (Fox), and No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 1 Georgia (CBS). Two of those games would be ABC properties if played this fall, while one GameDay site visit (No. 8 Oregon at No. 7 Washington) would've been lost to Fox.

-- In 2022, GameDay crossed streams 7 times, but that number drops to 4 when applied to 2024.

-- In 2021, GameDay left ESPN on 6 occasions, and still would've left 6 times when applying today's rules. 

Lest we apply Good Old Days Syndrome here, GameDay broadcast from games outside of ABC/ESPN roughly 25 percent of the time from 1996-98. They now leave the friendly confines of the Disney family roughly a third of the time. Or at least they did until now. 

Week 1 (Aug. 31)

This feels like an easy choice: No. 19 Clemson vs. No. 1 Georgia in Atlanta. If those rankings hold, it'll be Clemson's lowest pre-season ranking since 2011, when the Tigers were unranked. If this holds, Georgia will be the first back-to-back preseason No. 1 since Alabama did it in 2021-22, and since Clemson did it in 2019-20. That's a long way of saying this game serves as an interesting bookend on the 2021 season-opener, when No. 5 Georgia upset No. 3 Clemson 10-3. That was the beginning of the beginning for Georgia's back-to-back title rusn, and the beginning of the end for Clemson. At least for now.

Week 2 (Sept. 7)

It's the defending national champs, the nation's first look at a post-Harbaugh Michigan, hosting a "back" Texas led by a Heisman-candidate quarterback in their first visit to the Big House. That's enough for ESPN to cross the iron curtain: No. 4 Texas at No. 13 Michigan.

Week 3 (Sept. 14)

Not a great week. There are a couple SEC options (Texas A&M at Florida, Georgia at Kentucky) but this feels like the right time to check in on post-Saban Alabama as they make their first trek to Camp Randall since 1928: No. 9 Alabama at Wisconsin.

Week 4 (Sept. 21)

This is the week our Brave New World begins in earnest: USC at Michigan, Northwestern at Washington, Cal at Florida State, Utah at Oklahoma State. The thought here is GameDay celebrates by making its first visit to Norman since 2020 for No. 16 Tennessee at No. 14 Oklahoma.

Week 5 (Sept. 28)

Mark it in blood: Washington at Rutgers. Oh, wait, no. Bandage up that finger, then mark this one in blood: No. 1 Georgia at No. 9 Alabama.

Week 6 (Oct. 5)

If we're projecting based purely off of 2023, Michigan at Washington is an easy choice. However, I'm skeptical Washington will instantly gel as, essentially, an expansion team with an entirely new roster and coaching staff. Let's make the safe choice and send Rece, Kirk and co. to Tallahassee for No. 19 Clemson at No. 15 Florida State.

Week 7 (Oct. 12)

GameDay has been in Dallas for the Red River Shootout for two of the last three seasons, so it'd take something special for the show to skip the State Fair of Texas, especially with both teams in the preseason top-15. We have something special in Week 7 with No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon.

Week 8 (Oct. 19)

The suits in Bristol will have an eye on Red River, and they're probably rooting for Texas because the following week brings us No. 1 Georgia at No. 4 Texas. 

Week 9 (Oct. 26)

We've reached our third straight week with a game pitting preseason top-10 teams, and the fourth in the last five. That will mean nothing by this point in the season, but this might: if they can defeat Texas A&M on the road and Auburn at home, the Tigers will very likely prowl into Tuscaloosa undefeated: No. 7 Missouri at No. 9 Alabama.

Week 10 (Nov. 2)

Another week, another matchup of preseason top-15 teams. Two, in fact. Are you sensing a theme yet? Some would say the Power 2 and the networks are actively creating a haves/have nots dynamic; they would retort that such a world already existed, and they acted accordingly. Either way, here's betting that GameDay bypasses No. 3 Oregon at No. 13 Michigan for its co-favorite matchup of all-time (12 appearances): No. 2 Ohio State at No. 8 Penn State.

Week 11 (Nov. 9)

This week's schedule could easily send GameDay to yet another SEC locale, with No. 6 Ole Miss set to host No. 1 Georgia. Or its other all-time favorite matchup, No. 9 Alabama at No. 12 LSU. While we've been loading GameDay up with one big brand, we've neglected another: No. 15 Florida State at No. 6 Notre Dame. After opening at Texas A&M, the Fighting Irish will be double-digit favorites each week except for Louisville heading into this game.

Week 12 (Nov. 16)

Week 12 gives us one matchup of ESPN's preseason top 16, and it's Tennessee at Georgia. GameDay isn't following the Dawgs for a fourth time, for this game. That leaves a vacancy for... your guess is as good as mine. Kansas at BYU? FIU at Jacksonville State? Boise State at San Jose State? Those are serious questions. Let's take a shot in the dark and say Troy at Georgia Southern.

Week 13 (Nov. 23)

Look, I know. I get it. I'm sick of it, too. It's too much! Fourteen of ESPN's preseason top 25 hail from the SEC and the Big Ten, and those 14 teams play each other a combined 25 times. But is GameDay going to skip No. 9 Alabama at No. 14 Oklahoma, airing on its network, for UCF at West Virginia? 

Week 14 (Nov. 30)

The easiest choice on the board. We don't know what shape the visitors will be in when they arrive, but it doesn't matter. In fact, in some ways the more losses they have, the greater the stakes for the home team. No team has ever had more monetary pressure to beat a specific opponent and then win a national championship than this outfit, which is why for the fourth year in a row, GameDay will be at No. 13 Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State. 

Week 15 (Dec. 7)

Actually, on second thought, this is the easiest choice on the board. If Vegas took bets on such a thing, they'd have to place the odds at -10000 on the chances that GameDay is anywhere other than Atlanta for the first SEC Championship on its air since 2000. 

So, there you have it. At first blush, that's six non-ESPN games in 15 weeks, in line with past seasons -- five Big Ten games, plus one trip to South Bend. 

 

 

That was a fun read! Cant wait. 

[markstanco 12464]

32 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Stupid shit alert: our opener against Colorado State 8/31 will be at 2:30pm on ESPN. Dumb as fuck. 

 

*Colorado State vs. Texas. 

[Longboard Horn 40006]

35 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Stupid shit alert: our opener against Colorado State 8/31 will be at 2:30pm on ESPN. Dumb as fuck. 

 

WHY?! EVERY... FUCKING.... YEAR!! WE ARE ALWAYS AT 2, 2:30 OR 3! ESPN needs to understand how hot it gets and we should be playing at 7pm. 

[Vito Andolini 9067]

5 minutes ago, markstanco said:

*Colorado State vs. Texas. 

Help me understand your post… I wrote Colorado State and Texas.

[Evil Bill Obrien 3100]

42 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Stupid shit alert: our opener against Colorado State 8/31 will be at 2:30pm on ESPN. Dumb as fuck. 

 

 

 

[TankedBevo 2482]

45 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Stupid shit alert: our opener against Colorado State 8/31 will be at 2:30pm on ESPN. Dumb as fuck. 

 

[Longboard Horn 40006]

Welp, I'll most likely be tailgating out in the desert for our first game. It'll be a 12:30 kick so thank God it won't be as hot(humidity wise).

[markstanco 12464]

1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

Help me understand your post… I wrote Colorado State and Texas.

Home team is shown second typically (unless Texas v ou, or ou fans say ou vs texas).  It caught my eye for a split second. 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10098]

8 hours ago, Texas Wahoo said:

College Station Week 1 - Notre Dame on ESPN/ABC is too big a draw.

 

 

Wow... didn't realize ESPN laid off it's entire graphics department.  

[Hookem10 619]

How old are y’all complaining about the heat to watch Texas football ?? I’m old and poor.  I’d watch Texas football in a space suit on the moon if I could afford it. 

[Royale with cheese 1431]

7 minutes ago, Hookem10 said:

How old are y’all complaining about the heat to watch Texas football ?? I’m old and poor.  I’d watch Texas football in a space suit on the moon if I could afford it. 

Next time, be a nurse.

[LTtxfan 48823]

aggy vs Irish gets 2024 ESPN GameDay

ESPN releases highlights of Week 1 college football schedule

With a triple-header on their very first Saturday, it's so far, so good for the SEC's new all-in deal with ESPN/ABC.

ZACH BARNETT      14 HOURS AGO

As detailed on this site previously, the biggest coming change to the college football regular season from a television perspective is that the SEC has now officially left CBS for ABC.

The SEC has aired games on ESPN for decades and is already a business partner with Disney through the SEC Network, but college football's premier conference changing network partners will have a two-pronged effect on the way we watch games this fall. First, it means CBS is now all-in on the Big Ten in the 3:30 p.m. ET time slot. And it means ABC will now air SEC games in the morning, afternoon or night.

Or, in the case of Week 1's schedule, morning, noon and night.

ESPN joined the slow trickle of game time announcements on Tuesday as networks present their fall schedules to advertisers, joining Fox and NBC's announcements of select Big Ten games on Monday. 

Saturday, Aug. 24
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech at Dublin, Ireland (noon ET, ESPN)
Florida A&M vs. Norfolk State at Atlanta (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC)

Thursday, Aug. 29
North Dakota State at Colorado (8 p.m. ET, ESPN)

Friday, Aug. 30
Temple at Oklahoma (7 p.m. ET, ESPN)
TCU at Stanford (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)

Saturday, Aug. 31
Clemson vs. Georgia at ATL (noon ET, ABC)
Miami at Florida (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
Colorado St at TEXAS  (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Western Kentucky at BAMA  (7 pm ET, ESPN)
Notre Dame at Texas A&M (7:30pm ET, ABC)

Sunday, Sept. 1
USC vs. LSU at Las Vegas (7:30pm ET, ABC)

Monday, Sept. 2
Boston College at Florida St (7:30pm ET, ESPN)

With Notre Dame-Texas A&M garnering the prime time slot, GameDay will be on hand in College Station to herald the beginning of the Mike Elko era (and also the beginning of the 2024 college football season).

With a triple-header on their very first Saturday, it's so far, so good for the SEC's new all-in deal with ESPN/ABC.

 

[n64ra 1073]

Rooting for the meteor on the College GameDay one.

[Herpa Derpa 6102]

17 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Thursday, Aug. 29
North Dakota State at Colorado (8 p.m. ET, ESPN)

Go Bison! Please, please, please, let me get what I want.

[LTtxfan 48823]

Guess he'll sometimes provide CFB updates during GameDay...

 

[Sgt Hulk 13617]

Fuck it. Go Irish. Day 1 skull fucking aggy 

[Funk Doctor Spock 11849]

Amen to that. 

[Hagbard Celine 10652]

maybe aggy will shut up for a few months

[billfromlaketravis 11328]

What’s the scouting report on the Domers? From what little I saw last season:  stunted on offense, disciplined on defense and special teams, limited ceiling due to lack of blue chip talent. 
 

I think the offense will be better. Denbrock is very competent and Leonard, if healthy, will be an improvement at QB. 

[closetojumping 62033]

8 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

What’s the scouting report on the Domers? From what little I saw last season:  stunted on offense, disciplined on defense and special teams, limited ceiling due to lack of blue chip talent. 
 

I think the offense will be better. Denbrock is very competent and Leonard, if healthy, will be an improvement at QB. 

Notre Dame doesn’t really have the dudes to compete for it all, but they’re talented. The biggest issue with ND outside of the lack of elite skill talent is that Freeman is proving himself to be a buffoon with his in game decision-making. 

ND will be a more talented team than ATM. I expect either a comfortable Notre Dame victory or a close match-up that Freeman fucks up somehow and Elko gets the win.  

[Horn of Gabriel 1582]

43 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Notre Dame doesn’t really have the dudes to compete for it all, but they’re talented. The biggest issue with ND outside of the lack of elite skill talent is that Freeman is proving himself to be a buffoon with his in game decision-making. 

ND will be a more talented team than ATM. I expect either a comfortable Notre Dame victory or a close match-up that Freeman fucks up somehow and Elko gets the win.  

aggy wins to start the hype rollercoaster

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[MuellerHorn 4150]

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

Notre Dame doesn’t really have the dudes to compete for it all, but they’re talented. The biggest issue with ND outside of the lack of elite skill talent is that Freeman is proving himself to be a buffoon with his in game decision-making. 

ND will be a more talented team than ATM. I expect either a comfortable Notre Dame victory or a close match-up that Freeman fucks up somehow and Elko gets the win.  

I surmise your alternatives are spot on. My bet is it's a rather low scoring game, a la OSU @ ND last season. ND should have a solid, well-coached defense. I don't think A&M's new offense will be primed to match up well. The wild card is ND's offense against Elko's defense. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 11849]

ND will win and aggy will tell themselves it's only because it's the first game and The Elk will have them in the playoffs by seasons end at, let me see, 8-4. 

[Vertuzzi 1332]

I’d love to see the looks of disgust on the old ND fans as they have to share space with those disgusting animals from ATM. 

[4th&Five 41444]

23 minutes ago, Vertuzzi said:

I’d love to see the looks of disgust on the old ND fans as they have to share space with those disgusting animals from ATM. 

you ever been to south bend?

[Vertuzzi 1332]

1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

you ever been to south bend?

I have not, but I can safely assume the people of the university do not match those that just inhabit the town of South Bend. 

[Gucci_Suit 2605]

14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

you ever been to south bend?

Worst road game I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot. Boring ass place, it was hot, CJ Prosise, painful night-time ride back to Chicago. South Bend is terrible. 

[closetojumping 62033]

2 hours ago, MuellerHorn said:

I surmise your alternatives are spot on. My bet is it's a rather low scoring game, a la OSU @ ND last season. ND should have a solid, well-coached defense. I don't think A&M's new offense will be primed to match up well. The wild card is ND's offense against Elko's defense. 

To build more on where ND sits heading into 2024 after the portal has closed, I'll say your thoughts and mine above are founded at least somewhat in reality. 

On offense:

QB - Riley Leonard is a good get if he's healthy. They have a back-up named Angeli that they're high on. 

TB - They don't have a clear cut guy at TB that is viewed as a terrific replacement for Estime. They have a highly ranked room though.

WR - Greathouse is a budding star. After him, they have guys like Beaux Collins that have made some plays in the past, even if somewhere else like Marshall and Clemson, but they're not scaring anyone here. 

TE - They lost the presumed starter to the portal (Tenn) and none of the candidates for the starting role are getting anyone excited. They don't have a prototypical ND TE type to just step in and kick ass.

OT - Total rebuild after losing 2 high draft picks on either end.

IOL - I think they return 1 starter, but this is a work in progress too. The writers covering ND feel like the OL overall is a key risk factor for this coming season. Not good. 

On defense:

DT - They return both starting DTs and those guys are good. This is a strength on the team.

DE - Looks like a shit show. They have a bunch of guys that ranked well and have yet to really produce. 

LB - They return a starter who was decent in Jack Kiser, but he was no doubt buoyed by having two other LBs playing next to him who are now in the NFL. There are highly ranked candidates to win the roles and Freeman's crew knows development on defense, so I assume this group will do well. 

CB - Likely their deepest position and returning a single starter. ND pundits do not appear concerned about this group. 

S - Watts returns and he'll be a preseason first team AA, I presume. They'll have someone new next to him and there is jagger risk. 

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In short, Notre Dame has 1 offensive starter out of 11 that might start at Texas in 2024 - Greathouse. It sounds arrogant if folks don't follow recruiting and the portal closely, but I don't know if there are many ND starters on offense that would be second team at Texas. 

The ND offense will be their soft spot in 2024 even with Denbrock and Leonard on campus. Defensively, ND is going to be very good and we would absolutely take their two tackles, Kiser, Watts, and Benjamin Morrison (CB), and likely some of the younger talented guys as well. 

The game is likely to be tight and low-scoring. I don't necessarily think Elko is some excellent gameday coach, but I feel like Freeman is not a good one, yet, at least. 

I could see ATM winning this game, which will piss me off. 

@notre dame joe and @BlueGreySky or any other domer that posts on this board in case they have an opinion or wish to fact check due to greater team familiarity. 

[BlueGreySky 995]

Giving two finals tomorrow.  I can type up some thoughts then. 

[billfromlaketravis 11328]

Looking back, what I loved most about aggy’s 2023 loss to Miami was the funk it put them in for the rest of the year. Call it a crisis of delusion. 
 

I hope a loss to Notre Dame sows similar seeds of doubt. 

[BlueGreySky 995]

QB - Leonard probably gets the job.  There's not much difference between him and Angeli, Carr is what people think.  If the O Line sucks ass it doesn't much matter who is there. 

TB - Love is the guy.  Price will be a solid 2, but if the O Line can be somewhat functional the consensus is that Love has the higher ceiling.

WR - More of a crapshoot.  Talent for sure, but we'll see who develops.  A few I've talked to speculating if Greathouse or Faison gets a shot in the slot.  

TE - The only part I think you're off on.  Evans is the starter, presumably.  Raridon could be a stud.  Many view us still as 3-deep at TE and will continue the ND TE tradition. 

OL - Interior isn't a complete rebuild; returning some starters.  But yeah, Alt and Fisher leaving hurts for sure.  

DT - Cross is a dude.

DE - I don't think it's a complete shit how.  Oben, the Duke transfer?  Well, we shall see.  I think he's going to be a monster. 

LB - Sneed and Bowen need to step up.

DBs - The secondary is the strength of the D, for sure.  Jordan Clark from ASU helps.  Mickey will be fine.  

Overall I think you undersell the Irish O - probably closer to 4 guys that could play for the Horns.  Can't wait for the season to see what pans out.  I also sadly, agree with your assessment of Freeman.  I love the hell out of his energy and style, but he's not proven to be great on gameday.  I hope for his evolution and growth to continue this year and that he is around for many years. 

And if aggy beats us... I will be more than pissed off.  Makes me ill to think about it.

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19111]

aggy will find some way to pull out a win.  Their fans will be even more annoying than usual.

[Hagbard Celine 10652]

ctj & bgs, prepare your anii

 

the rarest intangible is held by aggy

 

domer won't even have week-1 film from the traditional fcs scrub opener

 

in the board game Advanced Third Reich, it's fall '39 and elk holds the initiative

 

advantage aggy

[Ignatius 3990]

On 5/22/2024 at 1:29 PM, Gucci_Suit said:

Worst road game I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot. Boring ass place, it was hot, CJ Prosise, painful night-time ride back to Chicago. South Bend is terrible. 

South Bend makes College Station look like Austin…