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What an amazing, incredible, inspiring year for these Hoosiers. And what an incredible future this football program has going forward. It’s a great time to be a Hoosier. GO IU!!

Michael Rispoli January 16, 2024 The beloved movie Rudy, teaches a disastrous life lesson I'm not a big fan of the movie Rudy. Every time I bring this up people jump down my throat for insulting one of the greatest underdog stories ever told. A story that promotes hard work and determination against insurmountable odds. For those that don't know, Rudy is a movie about a guy that dreamed of playing football for Notre Dame. Rudy doesn't have the money to pay for the school, suffers from undiagnosed dyslexia, and is of small physical stature. He gets a job at the school, discovers and overcomes his dyslexia, gets into the school and eventually is allowed to play on the practice squad with the football team. He works his butt off, but still never plays in a single game. At the end of the movie, in a heartfelt show of solidarity with Rudy, the entire football team forces the coach to let him play in the last game of his career because Rudy's parents are coming to watch. It's supposed to be a story about how with enough hard work and determination you can do anything. Except what you end up with is a story about a guy that doubled down on his weaknesses, toiled for years at a sport he would never have the physical stature for, and was given a pity spot in the last game. The silver lining is that in the process he managed to overcome his dyslexia and get degree from a great school. But all of that is overshadowed by his maniacal pursuit of becoming a Notre Dame football player. This is the problem with following your dreams. Sometimes our dreams run contrary to our natural abilities. Sometimes our dreams come from places that aren't even ours. Rudy's father was a die-hard Notre Dame fan. Would Rudy have dreamed of becoming a football player had his father been a fan of Jazz? Or would he have spent his life trying to play trumpet like Louis Armstrong and succeeded! We'll never know because the tragedy of Rudy is that he never pursued something he had a chance of being exceptional at. True mastery of a craft comes at the intersection of our abilities, our passions, and our desires. We will experience many of these things in isolation throughout our lives. We will be great at things we don't love. We will love things we aren't good at. We will desire things we don't have the passion to complete. It's why the advice, double down on your strengths, is so important. By doing this we have the best chance of finding and capitalizing on this intersection. Rudy is an example of how limiting beliefs can take many forms in our lives. Sometimes they cause us to pursue a passion that we have not a hope and a prayer of ever being good at. These often aren't our dreams at all. Sometimes they come from trying to please our families and loved ones. Sometimes they are what we wish were true if we were someone else. They obscure from view what we could be great at and block us from developing into our greatest selves. Rudy was robbed of this self-discovery and was carried off the field never knowing what his potential would have been had he not embarked on this hapless quest to be a Notre Dame football star. True mastery of a craft comes at the intersection of our abilities, our passions, and our desires. We will experience many of these things in isolation throughout our lives. We will be great at things we don't love. We will love things we aren't good at. We will desire things we don't have the passion to complete. It's why the advice, double down on your strengths, is so important. By doing this we have the best chance of finding and capitalizing on this intersection. Rudy is an example of how limiting beliefs can take many forms in our lives. Sometimes they cause us to pursue a passion that we have not a hope and a prayer of ever being good at. These often aren't our dreams at all. Sometimes they come from trying to please our families and loved ones. Sometimes they are what we wish were true if we were someone else. They obscure from view what we could be great at and block us from developing into our greatest selves. Rudy was robbed of this self-discovery and was carried off the field never knowing what his potential would have been had he not embarked on this hapless quest to be a Notre Dame football star.

I’ll figure out how to bring back the first half thread… post here while we do so. Need next score— if we get that this is 100% a ball game.

No connection to the Cignetti era at JMU.

Woody scheduled dozens of games in the hometown of one of his super-seniors!

Hopefully he's not the new guy with the Falcons who transformed Kirk Cousins into what he is today. (ees a joke!)

This is a great interview with Pat McAfee, but I would especially encourage you to go to the 11 minute mark: https://youtu.be/JJbMGLdB6fw?si=6acYm9pd_dyvtkz9 ”This is home. And we’re just getting started.” Damn straight.

Hemby was also an All-State track athlete in high school. He fast. In 2022, he was named Academic All-Big Ten. The same year, he finished the season ranked third among all FBS freshmen in yards from scrimmage (1,287) while scoring the second-most rushing touchdowns ever by a Maryland freshman (10). He earned Honorable Mention All-Big Ten and College Football News Third Team Freshman All-American merit for his play on the field. In 2023, Hemby boasted the highest cumulative GPA on the football team while earning College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors. He’s also very involved in the community. A native of Edgewood, Md., and a graduate of The John Carroll School, Hemby hosts an annual youth football camp in the area where he grew up. “We talk about Roman the football player, but Roman the person, Roman the Maryland Terp representative, is an unbelievable guy,” Locksley said. “Roman Hemby is the real deal as a person. Kudos to his mom and dad [for] the job they've done [as parents].”

And seems to be a quality personality:

Similar in that all four are three down, multi-dimensional backs that can catch passes, have enough speed to get to the edges, and have enough power to play on 3rd and inches. This is really incredibly good.

Seems like an incredibly dangerous upset-alert game. A team that shoots a ton of threes, has shot terribly so far this year, and shot tons of threes last year at a much higher clip with many of the same guys. Ruh-roh.

Wondering if Salter will be detrimental to 'JuJu's brand'?

I personally arrived at Huss as a viable choice and posted it, but I have absolutely zero notion that Alan Huss is on Scott Dolson or anyone else's radar. However, Alan Huss' resume is truly outstanding, maybe/probably above and beyond the resume of either McCollum or McMillan. All three have absolutely crushed it at their current mid-major/D2 stops, but in addition: Huss has very strong State of Indiana ties; the other two do not. Huss has top tier prep school recruiting ties; the other two do not. Huss played high-level D1 ball (at Creighton); the other two did not. Huss has been a P5 top assistant for over five years, including at Creighton for multiple years with modern offense and some really successful teams. Neither McMillian nor McCollum have ever been at a P5 school; not as player, coach, grad assistant, nor as an assistant coach. So admittedly, Alan Huss is purely an @Stuhoo invented rumination, but tell me why he is not an extraordinary P5 coaching upcoming candidate?

https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/lists/usc-football-new-hope-josh-henson-leaves-purdue/ A Trojans Wire article on Purdoo's new offensive coordinator. Apparently new Purdump OC Henson was the O-line coach at USC and was... okay. And that was with top 500 recruits and Riley calling the plays. Now 'okay O-line coach Henson' will be calling the plays for Puredoo. The article's headline: "USC football receives great news as Josh Henson leaves coaching staff"

Did not overlap with Cig or Haines at JMU. Is there something we should expect from excited young Mr. O'Neill?

The latter.

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