Well the Irish have scheduled South Florida on Sept 19th to replace W.Michigan. If we make it that far!
Irish Basketball after a recruit from Grand Island Neb??? Neb is not a likely place to find highly rated basketball talent, but this kid is a top 100 player. Hope he ends up in South Bend, seems like a ND type of kid from the article I read. While no doubt he likely wants to have a NBA career, it doesn't sound like he's a kid who would like to be a 1 and done, sounds like he'd really like to get an education along with preparing himself for the NBA. 2022 Top 100 Forward "Definitely Interested" In Notre Dame
Poster on Rocks House said that the team was told that if the University closes down and goes 100% online, that football is done.
It was a heart felt editorial. If colleges across the country are going to be able to have an on campus experience, the students are going to have to accept responsibility for their behavior. It will all fail and they will be sent home to do classes online iif they choose to ignore the current situation. I feel bad for the students, their college experience will be much different and not as much fun as in the past. They have to make the best of it, they have no other choice.
Back to football! The Irish picked up a verbal from a Grand Rapids lb, Nolan Ziegler. He is an Irish Legacy as his Grandfather, Tim Sullivan, played for Ara and was on the 73 National Championship team. Lots of other connections to Notre Dame as well. Very athletic kid who fits what Clark Lea has in mind for the Rover position.
A tidbit for Krebs... Ziegler goes to Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School.... the same High School as Wally Pipp. Catholic Central is really quite a school, I looked it up and it looks like a great HS. Bobda lived in Grand Rapids at the time, he can probably verify that.
GRCC is an elite high school, both athletically and educationally. Anne and her siblings graduated from there.
When I first read about Ziegler and his grandfather having played for ND i thought he was the grandson of Ed Ziegler who was a class of 70 grad and played for Ara. Ed lived in the room next to my roommate and I and we spent many a night playing cards together. He was from Covington Ky. and always claimed that he'd be governor of Ky some day. Last I heard he had moved to Colorado and was a professor out their and an expert on urban planning.
re: Ziegler The next Harrison Smith? We can only hope! re: Pipp. He was a better than average baseball player who made the tragic mistake of getting a migraine headache.
The other thing I read about Wally Pipp is that he graduated in Architecture from Catholic University. But he never worked at that profession.
So now the University Pres acts like he’s passed at Lou Holtz for endorsing Trump? Give me a freakin break!!!
Yeah there was a lot of comments about it on ND Nation about mostly positive. I certainly thought it was fine. Lou got a lot of flack for some political ads he made while at Arkansas supporting Jesse Helms reelection to the Senate. Some think that was behind his being let go.
I read the statement and it sounds like the school is upset because Lou said Joe Biden was a "Catholic in name only" because of his pro choice stance. It seems to me that the sanctity of life should be at the top of the list for anything Catholic. For ND to distance itself from Lou's comments is regrettable and sad. Its says a hell of a lot more about misplaced priorities on the part of the University more than it does about Holtz' endorsement. Earlier in the day Shaun Crawford post a photo of himself in a BLM t shirt on the official ND Twitter page and Irish Illustrated subjects readers to a Joe Biden campaign ad featuring all campus sites in the background. I sense that my time as an Irish fan is just about over. If I have to choose between rooting for this school at the cost of compromising my pro-life beliefs or enduring cop killing BLM ******** then it is adios Irish. My blood runs red white and blue, not blue and gold.
Well I thought he was really just trying to make it clear that Lou speaks for Lou and that his political opinions and affiliations are just that and have no relationship with Notre Dame. But I don't want to have this topic turn into a political discussion/debate that belongs in the backroom. Let's try to stick to Notre Dame football.