Also a holding penalty on second and long is not nearly as detrimental as a holding penalty that brings back a first down. I have long believed that if you wanted to throw a game a few strategic holding penalties could do the trick. You could even cover yourself by calling holding penalties on the other team when they had minimal effect.
I don't want to believe it of course, but with all the gambling sites and already some cases of games being manipulated. The Alabama baseball coach is the biggest, but there have been players suspended for gambling schemes, in a number of schools. The Irish men's swimming team was suspended for gambling, the swimming team!! I think there wasa a NBA ref who was fired for gambling/fixing games. But refs pretty much have never been caught in any gambling schemes, and game manipulation.
Still no kicker for the Irish. Noah Burnette who is a reliable kicker is still not 100% and clearly the kid Schmidt who was highly recruited and had an excellent HS career is not going to do it this year and the other kid is good for extra points but not likely to be very reliable beyond maybe 20 yd FG's. Big problem for the Irish.
Jordan Greathouse will miss his 2nd game. There is a lot of rampant speculation that he's setting things up so he can use this as a redshirt year and hit the portal. The gurus don't seem to know for sure if that has any legs.
Don't see the sense in doing that. Right now he's got a really talented young QB which to me is an asset for a receiver. He's a junior so why need a red shirt this year? Fields is a stud but he'll be gone probably in the pros next year.
Maybe gip, but there is some good young freshmen behind him. He might want return home and play with Arch at Texas.
Boy, if I'm a head coach, I just can't wait to sign a player who would sit out games when he could play for a team in the hunt for a playoff spot. He's not too self-centered.