knightni

The athletics department of Notre Dame is not allowed to recruit any athlete that the administration deems not academically sound enough to attend the school. They've recruited two "Prop-48" guys in the last 25 years: Tony Rice and Chris Zorich; only because Holtz begged the administration and promised that he'd make sure that they graduated. Every other questionable player recruit request has been turned down. I'm not saying that Mich/Texas/USC/Florida etc doesn't have good academics; I'm saying that ND can't recruit questionable players due to their academics like public universities do.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 1, 2011 -> 02:09 PM) So, in 5 years, ND has had 11 players actually drafted? For a supposedly high-level franchise, with 7 five star recruits and 57 four star recruits according to numbers from a person earlier...that doesn't feel hugely impressive, and looking at the actual guys there, none of them have really shone big time in the show. I know you can't fully blame Weis for them not becoming all-pros, but you also can't give Weis credit for any of them becoming all-pros. The real question, Balta... How many 5 and 4 star recruits from HS overall actually get drafted?

It can be tougher to recruit at ND than at a public university. It's in a cold weather area and is a religious school, and they can't just pick any athlete. They have to pick one that actually did well in HS and one that they believe will survive academically. Many top HS athletes are either turned off by those things or ND's coaches aren't allowed to recruit them by the administration due to the athlete's academic history.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Jan 1, 2011 -> 04:08 AM) They're not talking about Phillips as the Head Coach, but rather as the DC. I'm projecting to 2012.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 10:31 PM) Yeah I am moving on Sunday and will be within a mile of a Binnys. Just drinking some good beers and packing my s*** up tonight According to Three Floyds' web site, you should have gotten their beer at the store that you went to.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 09:34 PM) The issue isn't whether you guys like him, it's whether he has developed reputable sources through his playing the game and his job of covering college football for ESPN to be knowledgable of the situation. No offense to Knightni, but my guess is May's opinion is a little more informed than his (or mine or yours, for that matter). To say his opinions are worthless is probably not a very legitimate position to take. May is a member of the golden cleat club. He's an ex-athlete who got his job on name recognition and because he can speak well enough to be on TV. He is a football analyst. He uses information given to him by others or things that he has seen himself to form his opinions (the same as any other human), except May uses his opinions and states them as fact on a TV show in front of millions of people who may or may not believe his opinion as fact. After watching his smug arrogantness on ESPN every week; and seeing his disregard for anyone else's opinion as a possibility of truth. I have my own opinion. He may be on TV, he may talk to a coach or player on occasion, but that does not make his personal opinions worth any more than anyone else's. His opinions are for the most part, useless or worthless to me as a viewer. That is my opinion. It may or may not be fact, but perception is personal reality. In fact, others who have posted above this post stated a similar opinion of May. No offense, iamshack.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 08:32 PM) I went to Kenwood liquors to get the Gumballhead and the Bell's IPA. They were out of the Bell's and didn't have the Gumballhead. Instead I picked up a Flossmoor Station Pullmans Brown which was fantastic, and a Founders Centennial IPA that one of the workers recommended to me (haven't tried it yet). Also found a Spaten Oktoberfest in the back of the fridge which was a treat as well. There are a few options: http://www.google.com/search?q=orland+park...ved=0CDoQtQMwAA

Mark May wouldn't know anything if he didn't have a teleprompter. His opinions are pretty much worthless.

Phillips would be a step down from Kubiak.

Weis recruits just fine. He just can't teach anyone who doesn't already know how to run a pro-style offense. Sure, the 22 year olds with 3-4 years of school do well, but the 18-19 year old kids right out of HS struggle because he sucks as a teacher.

It's like a resolution saying that I'll avoid caffeine, fat, sugar and run on a treadmill every day. Very easy to keep.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 07:47 PM) You got 14k posts to make up! I've gone from the bottom of the first page to #7 this year but, who's counting?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 07:42 PM) One of those was from me :-) Hey Knight...any chance you'd be willing to make the full spreadsheet available, such that when I'm at a conference in a month or two and I have my laptop, I can check easily what I need to have? I can give you access to it. It's on Google Docs. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq...dkcEE&hl=en

My New Year's resolution is to make it into the top 5 in posts here. Look out, Tex!

One is for his head, the other...just his drool.

Any comments about the honorable mentions Jim?

I don't know if I'd leave the NFL for college if I was a coordinator in the style of Weis. Maybe he's hoping that the head coach job opens up eventually.

ND cruises past GTown yesterday. The Big East schedule is going to be interesting... I hope that Brey plays more than 7 guys this year.

That honorable mention list should keep you guys toasty til next year.

Honorable Mentions: Bard's 90 Shilling by O'Dell's Moosehead Founders Breakfast Stout Schneider Aventinus Franziskaner - Spaten Landshark Sweetwater 420 Dos Equis Special Lager Redbridge Stone of Destiny Ale, by Lia Fai Lowenbrau Thomas Hardy Ale Flossmoor Station - Collaborative Evil Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout Struise Pannepot - De Struise Brown Shugga' - Lagunitas Grosch Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA Leopold Brothers' Oatmeal Stout Chimay Red Label, by Chimay Ranger IPA Curieux – Allagash Magic Hat #9 Dale's Pale Ale - Oskar Blues Yuengling Lager Heineken Lager Maudite, by Unibroue Southern Pecan Nut Brown Ale Zywiec Spaten Optimator Sam Adams Chocolate Bock New Glarus - Fat Squirrel Amstel Light Corsendonk Christmas Ale Ommegang Hennepin Hopdevil Ale - Victory Pacifico Hacker-Pschorr Weisse Three Floyds Robert The Bruce Dundee's IPA Dynamo Copper Lager, by Metropolitan Woodchuck Cider Chimay White Sam Adams Black Lager Franziskaner Hefeweizen Péché Mortel - Dieu du Ciel Indian Brown Ale - Dogfish Head Dos Equis Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Lagunitas IPA Full Sail Amber Ale, by Full Sail Dogfish Head Samuel Adams Dunkelweizen Coors Light Cantillon Gueuze Spaten Oktoberfest Rogue - Santas Private Reserve La Chouffe - Brasserie d’Achouff Bavarian Hefe - North By Northwest Sol Three Floyds Broo Doo Anchor Steam Spaten Lager La Fin Du Monde - Unibroue Weihenstephaner Original Aventinus Weizenbock - G. Schneider & Sohn Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA Bell's Amber Ale Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Dundee's Hefe Weisen Moose Drool Fuller’s London Pride Giacomo IPA Three Floyds - Pride and Joy Avec les Bons Voeux - Brasserie Dupont Sam Adams Blackberry Witbier Hobgoblin - Wychwood Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster Dundee's Honeybrown Gila Monster Amber Ale, by Steinhaus Ruddles Country Bitter Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre ESB – Fullers Killian's Irish Red Three Floyds Dread Naught Shock Top Belgian White Dundee's Amber Lager Dos Equis Amber Tecate Hamm's Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Guiness Bells Kalamazoo Stout New Belgium - 2 Below Prior 8 - St. Bernard Brouwerij Pumking - Southern Tier Noble Pils Ommegang Witte Ale Rolling Rock Dogfish Head 120 Minute Blue Moon Founders Black Rye Old Chub - Oskar Blues Ommegang Three Philosophers Magic Hat Hex Two Brothers The Bitter End Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock Goose Island Matilda Becks Point Blue Moon Winter Ale St. Pauli Girl Lager Stone Levitation Ale Night Stalker - Goose Island Michelob Amber Bock Saporro Pabst Blue Ribbon Fantôme Saison - Brasserie Fantôme Harp Rauchenfels dunkel Steinbier Miller Lite Molson Moonglow - Victory Keystone Light Bass Left Hand Milk Stout Heineken Dark Lager

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 10:34 AM) Speaking of Angelic, I don't think the Angels would trade Mike Scoscia for Mike Stanton, I don't think the Yankees would trade Joe Girardi for Mike Stanton, I don't think the Rays would trade Joe Maddon for Mike Stanton. Trading a manager who has been with your club for a number of years shows a major change in direction and philosophy. You don't do that for some prospect, I don't care how promising he looks. There is no recent examples or history of this occuring and there is a reason for it. As for the other points, yeah, we're just butting heads at this point. Agree to disagree. Every one of those teams would give up their manager for Stanton. Managers are fired for non-baseball things such as disagreeing with the GM's style or, arguing with a player. Stanton under team control for 4 or 5 years is easily worth a manager.

There's the list. I'll start the honorable mentions later this evening.

1. (#1 Ale) New Belgium Fat Tire Ale Beer Advocate Rating: B (good) based on 1388 ratings Rate Beer Rating: 52/100 overall and 75/10 to style based on 1879 ratings 5.2% ABV, 18.5 IBUs Soxtalk points - 85 (Voted #2 by BigSqwert) Fat Tire is an American Amber Ale. Named in honor of New Belgium’s founder Jeff’s bike trip through Belgium, Fat Tire Amber Ale marks a turning point in the young electrical engineer’s home brewing. Belgian beers use a far broader palette of ingredients (fruits, spices, esoteric yeast strains) than German or English styles. Jeff found the Belgian approach freeing. Upon his return, Jeff created Fat Tire and Abbey Belgian Ale, (assuming Abbey would be his big gun). He and his wife, Kim traveled around sampling their homebrews to the public. Fat Tire’s appeal quickly became evident. People liked everything about it. Except the name. Fat Tire won fans is in its sense of balance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness. The beer is brewed with Willamette, Goldings, and Target hops and Pale, C-80, Munich, and Victory malts.

2. (#2 Ale) Guinness Stout Beer Advocate Rating: B+ (very good) based on 1462 reviews Rate Beer Rating: 85/100 overall and 84/100 to style based on 1462 reviews 5% ABV, 40 IBUs Soxtalk Voting - 75 points (Voted #1 by FlaSoxxJim) Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) at St. James's Gate, Dublin. Guinness is directly descended from the porter style that originated in London in the early 18th century and is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide. A distinctive feature is the burnt flavour which is derived from the use of roasted unmalted barley (though this is a relatively modern development since it did not become a part of the grist until well into the 20th century). For many years a portion of aged brew was blended with freshly brewed product to give a sharp lactic flavour (which was a characteristic of the original Porter). Although the palate of Guinness still features a characteristic "tang", the company has refused to confirm whether this type of blending still occurs. The thick creamy head is the result of the beer being mixed with nitrogen when being poured. It is popular with Irish people both in Ireland and abroad and, in spite of a decline in consumption since 2001, is still the best-selling alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. makes almost €2 billion annually. There are several different styles of Guinness, but the most common is the Extra Stout. Guinness Original/Extra Stout: 4.2 or 4.3% ABV in Ireland and the rest of Europe, 4.1% in Germany, 4.8% in Namibia and South Africa), 5% in the United States and Canada, and 6% in Australia and Japan.

3. (#3 Ale) Newcastle Brown Ale Beer Advocate Rating: B- (worthy) based on 1364 reviews Rate Beer Rating: 48/100 overall and 45/100 to style based on 2614 reviews 4.7% ABV, 25 IBUs Soxtalk Voting - 71 points (Voted #2 by SoxFan1, & #1 by Balta1701) Newcastle Brown Ale was originally created by Colonel J. Porter in 1925. The recipe, however, was adapted over a period of three years to create the flavour that is distinct to the beer today. When first exhibited, Newcastle Brown Ale swept the board at the prestigious 1928 International Brewery Awards. The gold medals from these awards are still featured on the label. The blue star logo was introduced to the Newcastle Brown Ale bottle in 1928, the year after the beer was launched. The five points of the star represent the five founding breweries of Newcastle. Newcastle Brown Ale is traditionally sold in England by the pint (20 fl oz, 568 ml) and more recently in 550 ml (19.4 fl oz, 0.97 pint) bottles. Typically the ale is consumed from a 12 fl oz Wellington glass. This allows the drinker to regularly top-up the beer and thereby maintain a frothy "head." In the United States, it is also sold in standard 12 fl oz (355 ml) bottles. In April 2010, Heineken USA introduced the Wellington glass, branded as the "Geordie Schooner," for Newcastle Brown Ale consumers in America. The pint glass features a nucleated base.