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Yeah, no.

@TGHusker It sounds like various Irish tourism & government groups fund at least some of it. There's a quote from the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) in the press release. https://collegefootballireland.com/sponsors/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191014005490/en/Aer-Lingus-College-Football-Classic-Series-Continues

Just for fun, here's a couple pics of Dedrick Mills (#26) from the 2016 game. Apparently there's a Getty Images photographer named Cody Glenn, lol. This one's just after he scored the game-winning touchdown.

If you're wondering about attendance numbers for these games: "Apart from the game in 1989, attendance has never fallen below 38,000 for these games with a peak in 2014 of 53,304 turning up at Croke Park." https://www.americanfootballinternational.com/ncaa-college-football-returns-to-ireland-in-a-big-way-notre-dame-to-face-navy/ Edit: Wikipedia's got attendance numbers for each game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Isle_Classic#Results

Question is, how much reshaping will there actually be? Barring transfers, almost the entire offense will be back for 2020. The only senior starters on offense are Noa and Williams, who are 'ORs' for the same WR position, neither of whom have made much noise this year. Those two plus Wyatt Mazour and Jaron Woodyard are the only seniors on the entire offensive depth chart. So the question on that side of the ball is how much the existing players can develop in the next year, and how much impact can next year's crop of (redshirt) freshmen make? I've mentioned several times now that O-lines take the longest to develop, so in the long-term there's still at least some hope for those players, but I don't know if that will be enough...

I don't know too many college kids who have trouble staying up until 9:30pm.

Please don't ever post anything with that logo again. It's awful, and was discontinued for a reason.

Honestly, our 'improvement' over the course of last year is way overstated, IMO. About all we really did was tilt a few games from narrow losses early in the season to narrow wins later on, mostly from bringing penalties and turnovers down a bit. OLB is more of a failure of recruiting than anything, IMO. I said last year that OLB was probably our biggest recruiting need, and then we completely whiffed on OLBs in the 2019 class.

The defense really ain't the problem. I mean they ain't great, but you can see where they're going with it. But at some point, the offense needs to do something - anything - and give the defense a reason to give a damn in a game like this. I mean the defense could've held Minnesota to less than half their point total and it wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference in this game.

The OL is by far the biggest problem. Unfortunately, O-linemen are slow to develop, so you probably aren't going to see much improvement this season. The only consolation is that the line is young, so they might be better by the ends of their careers.

@CheeseHusker Something like Cincinnati's?

Charity point.

CBS ranks Lamar Jackson as the #2 CB draft prospect for 2020, #20 overall. So I guess he dropped a couple spots in the last few days? https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2020-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-sec-most-represented-big-ten-has-no-1-overall/

As long as he doesn't drag her down the stairs by her hair...

A lot of reviewers are comparing it to Taxi Driver, too.

More like these kids, and their families, can't afford to turn down a scholarship. College is too damn expensive these days.

Bad as we've been, only 2 of our games have had that large of a turnover margin... Benning over here predicting last week's game...

Aaand this thread has officially went off whatever rails it may have been on when it was started...

Yes, they are. Apostrophes are awesome, too, but they aren't used to pluralize words.