That was an interesting read. So, basically it doesn't qualify as a second offense because he was not "intoxicated" in his prior underage. I'm not familiar with Indiana law, but Ohio law does not have a law for one being "intoxicated," unless they are in public and causing a disturbance. My understanding from that article is that Floyd was at a private party, therefore unable to be charged with public intoxication, and subsequently, unable to be charged with being "intoxicated." Ohio treats an underage individual the same whether they have had one beer or fifteen beers.

And ftr, I think Floyd being suspended for the entire year would be ridiculous. I always thought the prior way ND handled situations exactly like this was extreme. It will be interesting to see what BK decides to do with Floyd. In that article, it says he hinted at anywhere from 1-4 games. I don't believe there has been any precedent for a coach in suspending a player who has been arrested three times at ND. My guess is a minimum of 2 games.

karen lotz;738803 wrote:Do you get Versus?

Yes sir. Already set to record.

dat dude;739040 wrote:That was an interesting read. So, basically it doesn't qualify as a second offense because he was not "intoxicated" in his prior underage. I'm not familiar with Indiana law, but Ohio law does not have a law for one being "intoxicated," unless they are in public and causing a disturbance. My understanding from that article is that Floyd was at a private party, therefore unable to be charged with public intoxication, and subsequently, unable to be charged with being "intoxicated." Ohio treats an underage individual the same whether they have had one beer or fifteen beers.

And ftr, I think Floyd being suspended for the entire year would be ridiculous. I always thought the prior way ND handled situations exactly like this was extreme. It will be interesting to see what BK decides to do with Floyd. In that article, it says he hinted at anywhere from 1-4 games. I don't believe there has been any precedent for a coach in suspending a player who has been arrested three times at ND. My guess is a minimum of 2 games.

There have been some ridiculous instances but more times than not, it's the student athlete that doesn't comply with what, not only the University demands of them, but also the authorities. In this case, Floyd has taken positive steps to be reinstated or take the case of Kyle McAlarney, ND helped him instead of just kicking him to the curb, same with Floyd. Most of the time, it's up to the student to get it done, something that a guy like Rashon Powers Neal didn't do.

BK is leaning towards playing more than one QB this year:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=6330723

dat dude;739040 wrote:I don't believe there has been any precedent for a coach in suspending a player who has been arrested three times at ND. My guess is a minimum of 2 games.

Arrested is 100% irrelevant. It's not against he law to be arrested, or even charged with a crime if you get what I'm saying. His previous two altercations were so minor they have been wiped from his record. Many states consider underages so minor that they offer diversion programs to make more money and keep kids in line, it's there way of making themselves believe they are ruthless fun-killers since 80% of HS kids have admit to drinking and I've read as many as 93% of college kids admit to drinking underage (all of teh non-Mormon/Muslims). Again, I don't hold his previous incidents against him one bit, if anything I like him more. Now, his OVI is stupid as hell, I would have no problem with a 1-2 game suspension.

"[Rees] is going to drive 55 mph," Kelly said. "He's not going to get you a ticket, but he's not going to drive 80 mph, either. He's going to manage the game and has a penchant for making plays. He really doesn't do anything stupid. He's going to make some mistakes and get some balls batted down, but he's not going to do anything catastrophic."

+1

Crist and Rees will see limited action on Saturday and Kelly said the BG game would be Golson vs Hendrix. Te'o, Watt, and Daniel Smith won't play.

On Mike and Mike they announced ND and Northwestern have signed a separated 2 year home and home. 2014 in SB, and 2018 in Evansville.

The Equalizer;741226 wrote:On Mike and Mike they announced ND and Northwestern have signed a separated 2 year home and home. 2014 in SB, and 2018 in Evansville.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncf/news/story?id=6352027

Meh.

karen lotz;741274 wrote:Meh.

I don't like it either.

God willing in 3 years Kelly will have us where we expect and hope and NW will still be...NW. Nothing wrong with scheduling a lower midcard B10 team to look good in the Chicago recruiting market.

The Equalizer;741711 wrote:God willing in 3 years Kelly will have us where we expect and hope and NW will still be...NW. Nothing wrong with scheduling a lower midcard B10 team to look good in the Chicago recruiting market.

+1

I don't have a problem with it. I think Fitzgerald is the man though so this doesn't project to be a "gimme."

Sorry but I don't like it. Just when you think they were getting back to scheduling upper tier to good programs they go and get Temple and Northwestern. BTW, ND shouldn't have to play NW to keep a foot hold in Chicago, they should dominate that area every year in recruiting, so long as the HC makes it a priority to visit and stay on top of those kids.

LOL, maybe Mike and Mike had some pull in getting this deal done, Greenie is a NW alum and we all know who Golic's faithful to.

I understand you are just joking about the Mike and Mike connection, but there is absolutely ZERO chance Greenie had any pull at all in getting this scheduled.


And I will add that if he did have something to do with it, it makes me not like ND playing NW even more.

karen lotz;741748 wrote:I understand you are just joking about the Mike and Mike connection, but there is absolutely ZERO chance Greenie had any pull at all in getting this scheduled.


And I will add that if he did have something to do with it, it makes me not like ND playing NW even more.

LOL!

He didn't. Notre Dame gets another Chicago game, Northwestern gets a chance. Everyone wins.

Ronald Darby committed this morning. 2 of the top defensive backs in the country on board along with Tee Shepard who is making his first visit to South Bend today. Darby is faaaaaaaaaast.

Blue and Gold Rosters

The offensive linemen will go both ways

OFFENSIVE TACKLE

75 Taylor Dever, 6-5, 297, Senior
70 Zack Martin, 6-4, 300, Junior
74 Christian Lombard, 6-5, 301, Soph.
64 Tate Nichols, 6-8, 320, Soph.
79 Matt Tansey, 6-6, 250, Junior

OFFENSIVE GUARD

76 Andrew Nuss, 6-5, 303, Senior
78 Trevor Robinson, 6-5, 300, Senior
73 Lane Clelland, 6-5, 297, Senior
56 Brad Carrico, 6-5, 285, Freshman

CENTER

52 Braxston Cave, 6-3, 303, Senior
57 Mike Golic, 6-3, 295, Senior

BLUE TEAM:

QUARTERBACK

10 Dayne Crist, 6-4, 235, Senior
5 Everett Golson, 6-0, 180, Freshman
17 Matthew Mulvey, 6-2, 191, Senior

RUNNING BACK

20 Cierre Wood, 6-0, 210, Junior
29 Patrick Coughlin, 6-0, 195, Senior

WIDE RECEIVER

6 Theo Riddick, 5-11, 198, Junior
7 TJ Jones, 5-11, 187, Soph.
81 John Goodman, 6-3, 207, Senior
39 Ryan Liebscher, 5-11, 190, Soph.

TIGHT END

80 Tyler Eifert, 6-6, 242, Junior
82 Alex Welch, 6-4, 245, Soph.

DEFENSIVE END

89 Kapron Lewis-Moore, 6-4, 295, Senior
19 Aaron Lynch, 6-6, 260, Freshman
93 Bruce Heggie, 6-5, 270, Soph.

NOSE TACKLE

94 Hafis Williams, 6-1, 285, Senior

OUTSIDE LINEBACKER

55 Prince Shembo, 6-2, 250, Soph.
46 Steven Filer, 6-3, 235, Senior
47 Jonathan Frantz, 6-2, 211, Senior

INSIDE LINEBACKER

44 Carlo Calabrese, 6-1, 245, Junior
36 David Posluszny, 6-0, 235, Senior
53 Justin Utupo, 6-1, 251, Soph.

SAFETY

22 Harrison Smith, 6-2, 214, Senior
26 Jamoris Slaughter, 6-0, 198, Senior
28 Austin Collinsworth, 6-1, 200, Soph.

CORNERBACK

4 Gary Gray, 5-11, 195, Senior
23 Lo Wood, 5-10, 182, Soph.
43 Joe Romano, 5-9, 165, Soph.

PUNTER

35 Ben Turk, 5-11, 196, Junior

KICKER

40 Nick Tausch, 6-0, 190, Junior

LONG SNAPPER

60 Jordan Cowart, 6-2, 215, Junior

GOLD TEAM

QUARTERBACK

11 Tommy Rees, 6-2, 210, Soph.
12 Andrew Hendrix, 6-2, 218, Soph.

RUNNING BACK

25 Jonas Gray, 5-10, 230, Senior
49 Tyler Plantz, 5-9, 195, Soph.

WIDE RECEIVER

9 Robby Toma, 5-9, 175, Junior
1 Deion Walker, 6-3, 202, Senior
14 Luke Massa, 6-4, 220, Soph.

TIGHT END

83 Mike Ragone, 6-4, 245, Senior
88 Jake Golic, 6-4, 235, Junior

DEFENSIVE END

90 Ethan Johnson, 6-4, 300, Senior
96 Kona Schwenke, 6-4, 285, Soph.

NOSE TACKLE

9 Louis Nix, 6-3, 340, Soph.
99 Brandon Newman, 6-0, 303, Senior

OUTSIDE LINEBACKER

45 Darius Fleming, 6-2, 250, Senior
13 Danny Spond, 6-2, 242, Soph.
1 Ishaq Williams, 6-5, 242, Freshman

INSIDE LINEBACKER

48 Dan Fox, 6-3, 230, Junior
8 Kendall Moore, 6-1, 242, Soph.

SAFETY

17 Zeke Motta, 6-2, 215, Junior
15 Dan McCarthy, 6-2, 205, Senior
24 Chris Salvi, 5-10, 180, Senior

CORNERBACK

12 Robert Blanton, 6-1, 196, Senior
2 Bennett Jackson, 6-0, 181, Soph.
42 Nick Lezynski, 5-9, 180, Senior
32 Andrew Plaska, 5-11, 185, Senior

PUNTER

27 Kyle Brindza, 6-1, 219, Freshman
37 Mike Grieco, 6-1, 185, Senior

KICKER

97 David Ruffer, 6-1, 176, Senior
27 Kyle Brindza, 6-1, 219, Freshman

LONG SNAPPER

50 Ryan Kavanagh, 6-3, 200, Senior

On NU-ND-- see the Ryan family

Nicky Baratti, a safety out of TX just committed. Solid start to the weekend.


https://twitter.com/isdupdate/status/59295644640219136

http://notredame.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1212523

karen lotz;742587 wrote:Ronald Darby committed this morning. 2 of the top defensive backs in the country on board along with Tee Shepard who is making his first visit to South Bend today. Darby is faaaaaaaaaast.

Yes!

Louis Nix is absolutely gigantic!

sherm03;742633 wrote:Louis Nix is absolutely gigantic!

Yeah I'm not sure which guard he was going against in that first series, either Carrico or Nuss, but it wasn't fair.

Irish picked up another in LS Scott Daly. Not quite the impact of the other two.