A Sea Of Red

Roster Outlook: Linebackers

https://www.aseaofred.com/2020-roster-o ... nebackers/

With cancellation of spring practice, Freeze left with a lot of questions

https://www.aseaofred.com/with-cancella ... questions/

Freeze excited about potential Malik Willis brings

https://www.aseaofred.com/freeze-excite ... is-brings/

Roster Outlook: Defensive LIne

https://www.aseaofred.com/2020-roster-o ... sive-line/

Thx for putting all this stuff out Jon- really appreciate the hard work.

Can’t believe Rusins is still here. Feels like year 7 for that guy.

PAmedic wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2020, 10:54 am Thx for putting all this stuff out Jon- really appreciate the hard work.

Can’t believe Rusins is still here. Feels like year 7 for that guy.

Thank you!

Rusins is a beast. Came out of nowhere and now he's too good to take off the field.

Trademarking Lewis & Clark gear now...ha!

Freeze, Liberty adjusting to a new normal

https://www.aseaofred.com/freeze-libert ... ew-normal/

Liberty football notebook

https://www.aseaofred.com/liberty-footb ... -notebook/

Roster Outlook: Offensive Line

Early over/under win total set at 7

https://www.aseaofred.com/early-liberty ... -set-at-7/

No one knows what the season will look like, but one possibility I have seen from a couple of writers is a shortened season where only conference games are played. This poses a problem for Liberty being independent with no conference games. The only other Indy teams on our schedule this year are UCONN and UMASS. We could add games with BYU, NM State, And Army to get us to five games. Assuming most conferences play an eight game schedule that would leave three games for us to fill. Maybe another in season home and home with NM State? BYU? Army? Could be a positive possibility. Could we even score the holy grail...Notre Dame?

LUGrad2000 wrote: ↑April 6th, 2020, 4:11 pm No one knows what the season will look like, but one possibility I have seen from a couple of writers is a shortened season where only conference games are played. This poses a problem for Liberty being independent with no conference games. The only other Indy teams on our schedule this year are UCONN and UMASS. We could add games with BYU, NM State, And Army to get us to five games. Assuming most conferences play an eight game schedule that would leave three games for us to fill. Maybe another in season home and home with NM State? BYU? Army? Could be a positive possibility. Could we even score the holy grail...Notre Dame?

ND has the Conference alignment agreement with the ACC. No way they are going to let go of that cash cow

Purple Haize wrote:[quote=LUGrad2000 post_id=598850 time=<a href="tel:1586203901" data-original-title="" title="">1586203901</a> user_id=1053]
No one knows what the season will look like, but one possibility I have seen from a couple of writers is a shortened season where only conference games are played. This poses a problem for Liberty being independent with no conference games. The only other Indy teams on our schedule this year are UCONN and UMASS. We could add games with BYU, NM State, And Army to get us to five games. Assuming most conferences play an eight game schedule that would leave three games for us to fill. Maybe another in season home and home with NM State? BYU? Army? Could be a positive possibility. Could we even score the holy grail...Notre Dame?

ND has the Conference alignment agreement with the ACC. No way they are going to let go of that cash cow[/quote]
Yes, but what if because their games don’t count in the standings they lose them this year. Not even remotely likely, but the Masters is being played in November.

Even so, that only takes care of 6 games for ND - they would still have to add x amount more if an 8 or 9 game regular season

https://fbschedules.com/notre-dame-football-schedule/

LUGrad2000 wrote: ↑April 6th, 2020, 5:31 pm

Purple Haize wrote:[quote=LUGrad2000 post_id=598850 time=<a href="tel:1586203901" data-original-title="" title="">1586203901</a> user_id=1053]
No one knows what the season will look like, but one possibility I have seen from a couple of writers is a shortened season where only conference games are played. This poses a problem for Liberty being independent with no conference games. The only other Indy teams on our schedule this year are UCONN and UMASS. We could add games with BYU, NM State, And Army to get us to five games. Assuming most conferences play an eight game schedule that would leave three games for us to fill. Maybe another in season home and home with NM State? BYU? Army? Could be a positive possibility. Could we even score the holy grail...Notre Dame?

ND has the Conference alignment agreement with the ACC. No way they are going to let go of that cash cow

Yes, but what if because their games don’t count in the standings they lose them this year. Not even remotely likely, but the Masters is being played in November.
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“Today the Commissioner of the ACC John Swafford and Notre Dame Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick announced that for the 2020 Season the ACC and The University of Notre Dame have announced that due to the incredible circumstances over these last few months all football games between Notre Dame and ACC schools will count towards ACC standings. Details about how this affects the Coastal and Atlantic division championships are laid out in the packets we are passing out now....”
Problem solved

ACC games vs Notre Dame should not count in ACC standings. I have never been a fan of any ACC team playing ND. Counting these games in standings creates an unbalanced schedule.

Purple Haize wrote: ↑April 6th, 2020, 9:23 pm

LUGrad2000 wrote: ↑April 6th, 2020, 5:31 pm

Purple Haize wrote:[quote=LUGrad2000 post_id=598850 time=<a href="tel:1586203901" data-original-title="" title="">1586203901</a> user_id=1053]
No one knows what the season will look like, but one possibility I have seen from a couple of writers is a shortened season where only conference games are played. This poses a problem for Liberty being independent with no conference games. The only other Indy teams on our schedule this year are UCONN and UMASS. We could add games with BYU, NM State, And Army to get us to five games. Assuming most conferences play an eight game schedule that would leave three games for us to fill. Maybe another in season home and home with NM State? BYU? Army? Could be a positive possibility. Could we even score the holy grail...Notre Dame?

ND has the Conference alignment agreement with the ACC. No way they are going to let go of that cash cow

Yes, but what if because their games don’t count in the standings they lose them this year. Not even remotely likely, but the Masters is being played in November.

“Today the Commissioner of the ACC John Swafford and Notre Dame Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick announced that for the 2020 Season the ACC and The University of Notre Dame have announced that due to the incredible circumstances over these last few months all football games between Notre Dame and ACC schools will count towards ACC standings. Details about how this affects the Coastal and Atlantic division championships are laid out in the packets we are passing out now....”
Problem solved
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Sounds like serious plans for a shortened season with conference games only - if so ND will have to schedule 2 possibly 3 Independents and yes the rest of independents will need to schedule a couple of home and home series for 2020. NMSU and BYU makes sense for proximity. A lot of wheeling a dealing is probably happening right now just as a backup in case this really happens. ND will get away with hosting their 2 or 3 Indy opponents. It may be a situation where ND actually picks up additional / all ACC games instead of Independents filling in 2-3 games but they may not want to do that if they can’t win the conference. Some conferences play 9 some play 8 - will be interesting to see how they handle that.

ballcoach15 wrote:ACC games vs Notre Dame should not count in ACC standings. I have never been a fan of any ACC team playing ND. Counting these games in standings creates an unbalanced schedule.

They don’t. But, don’t let facts get in the way of your opinions.

2020 roster outlook: tight ends

https://www.aseaofred.com/2020-roster-o ... ight-ends/

I predict a major showdown between NCAA and a state governor or more - CA,NY, IL - on consensus of athletes returning. Example NCAA stating - July 1 with extended fall camp parameters ( x amount of additional practices in shorts - x amount of conditioning only days etc.) - and this whole thing being a major $&#@ show. Lawsuits etc. Early to speculate - I just don’t see a nationwide consensus happening with all the politics involved. I predict the PAC 12 to be the major cog.

Ian McCaw hopeful to be able to play full 2020 football season

https://www.aseaofred.com/liberty-ad-ia ... ll-season/

That definitely answers some of the questions we had on this chat.

Sometimes I wish NCAA had a commissioner with full power, to run the show, without the 5 major conferences and the Notre Dame Athletic Director, having any say in how things are done.

ballcoach15 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2020, 4:26 pm Sometimes I wish NCAA had a commissioner with full power, to run the show, without the 5 major conferences and the Notre Dame Athletic Director, having any say in how things are done.

Sure, why not? It's working out great in North Korea, right?