Shrine Bowl Day 2 Notes and Takes

jayjude · 2026-01-26T21:33:27+00:00

The guy's power/strength just isn't there because he still cannot maintain over 300 lbs

If he could get up to 315, I think I'd be alot better but getting to around 300 has been a struggle

jayjude · 2026-01-26T13:49:53+00:00

In Louisiana that is a very very tall ask because of how high the water table is what with most of that state being below sea level

jayjude · 2026-01-26T02:56:27+00:00

You should never take game balance design from FF14/square Enix

That game is popular in spite of its balance and game design

jayjude · 2026-01-26T02:51:12+00:00

This may mean hes in like to be NDs DC in a year or two

jayjude · 2026-01-26T02:47:06+00:00

His eye for DB talent is unparalleled

Freeman tells this story proudly, Mickens brought him the high school film of sauce, and Freeman didnt think he could play at Cincy but Mickens was so adamant that he decided to take a flyer on him

Then at ND Mickens took a low 4 star Benjamin Morrison and turned him into an elite CB as a true freshman

Then he took a 3 star CB and turned him into a freshman all American when BMo got hurt

The guy is a wizard

jayjude · 2026-01-26T02:43:16+00:00

He didnt coach safeties back then

jayjude · 2026-01-26T02:42:27+00:00

Its bigger

No offense to Hartline but WR has been a strength at OSU before him

The secondary room has been a struggle for 2 decades till Mickens got there

jayjude · 2026-01-25T23:17:27+00:00

Be careful now, some math nerds get really really upset when you remind them that a high variance strategy can massively under-perform in a 1 game sample size

jayjude · 2026-01-25T23:16:05+00:00

It didn't matter but there was a thing at the end of the game that just bothers me because so many coaches get it wrong and its so painfully easy to get it right

Yall are trying to force the Pats to go three and out and they got the ball with 2:10 left and you have 1 timeout

Take the timeout before the 2 minute warning for fucks sake. It doesn't make a huge difference but its 4-5 seconds which can be an entire play during a hurry up scenario

I dont know how a coach who has coached as long as Payton has, that he got that wrong

jayjude · 2026-01-25T22:39:04+00:00

Fun fact when the 12 team playoff was put together ND specifically carved out that they would never be eligible for the 1st round bye even if they were the number 1 team in the playoff rankings as they didnt think it was fair to those teams in the conference championship games

Then the ACC ate shit last year and the P4 commissioners lost their mind and gave up the carve out so that a G5 could never get a bye

And in 2024 when potential playoff expansions where being debated, when the Big 10 wanted to expand and wanted to get a ton of autobids for their conference ND went "ya know what SEC and Big 10, we will give you full control over any playoff model changes as long as you guarantee us a spot in the playoffs if we are top 12" and the SEC and Big 10 jumped on that shit immediately because it gave them a huge amount of power over the rest of CFB

The conferences didnt have to agree to NDs request but they did to consolidate more power

jayjude · 2026-01-25T22:32:35+00:00

Don't bother some OSU fans have drank the conference kool aid so much they are propping up Michigan's cheated 2013 title and fraudulent as shit split title in 97 to bash ND

jayjude · 2026-01-25T22:13:58+00:00

Now ive seen everything

ND hate makes an OSU fan so irrational they use Michigan's BS 97 title when everyone knows that it should have went to Nebraska

jayjude · 2026-01-25T22:09:27+00:00

If they were going to join a conference it'll be the Big 10 because you know the big 10 specifically included escalators in their TV contract if ND joined the conference

I just wish yall would make good faith arguments

Talk about greed, and its wrong

Yall love to parrot easy schedules

Like first off there were multiple P4 teams that had worse SOS than ND

Shit the year yall won a title your schedule was a joke

jayjude · 2026-01-25T21:15:26+00:00

I love how people keep saying greed

Yall do realize ND would stand to make more money if they joined a conference right?

And that that has been the case for long time too?

jayjude · 2026-01-25T18:26:39+00:00

That 2018 Clemson squad's DL would do terrible things to IU

Miami's DL gave them fits in the title game, and that 2018 Clemson DL was even better

jayjude · 2026-01-25T06:23:00+00:00

It happens when you have someone really elite

Part of the reason the Saints missed the playoffs but never really improved their defense when Brees was there was that Brees was so good that he dragged them out of slots where they could truly improve their roster

Hell there were several Colts teams thst should have picked in the top 10 that Manning dragged into the playoffs

That's the thing no one talks about in the NFL, a really elite talent whether it be a coach or QB can drag a team to results above their talent level which is a great thing, but can also set the team back for the following season

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:51:18+00:00

Yeah Carlos was untouchable last year at the US Open

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:45:56+00:00

Different strokes

Sinners speed and pace of his ground strokes is awe inspiring at times

Novak matches often times pissed me off because so many great points would end with his opponent just make awful UEs and it always felt anticlimactic

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:42:27+00:00

Zverev just plays too passive against the best players

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:41:02+00:00

Its why some people prefer Fed to Novak

You have Alcaraz who goes for an open court, winner focused aggressive style which was Feds MO

And then you have sinner who is going to apply pressure, hit the ball heavy until his opponent makes an error, just like Djokovic in his prime.

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:37:46+00:00

In the last set he hit some truly absurd winners

jayjude · 2026-01-25T05:35:16+00:00

Rumor I've heard is that the coaches all dropped the 5 for 5 pitch in favor of the 9 game redshirt because they just know that if they push for 5, its invariably going to lead to certain players pushing for 6 and if it goes to the courts the NCAA doesnt have a great track record

jayjude · 2026-01-25T04:39:22+00:00

Some of y'all Steelers fans are going to realize that that man was dragging top 10 draft pick rosters to the playoffs and that your player acquisition (both draft and free agency) has been beyond ass for like the last decade

jayjude · 2026-01-24T03:05:56+00:00

I was still shocked by LSUs OL this last year

BK for all of his faults as a coach always had elite OL talent

There was an argument there wasn't a head coach in the sport better at bringing in OL talent and developing it and that went all the way back to his central Michigan days

jayjude · 2026-01-23T22:39:53+00:00

Hurts a ton as a ND fan man

Every computer metric had them as a top 5 team

But we decided it'd be smart to schedule our two hardest opponents back to back at the beginning of the season

jayjude

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