If they play a game at camp nou with Barca inspired jerseys I’ll probably just cash out my 401k on the spot.
So far they have looked like shit until they hit the field (previous SS games) and then they are "ok" when dudes who should be wearing them wear them. Hope this is the same.
Hearing flights are getting cancelled... Jack took a home game for us and made it a home game for Cuse. If ND loses he should have to committ seppuku on the 50 yard line
Yep no flights from Midway to new York today or tomorrow. I'm guessing that's the case for most airports
That doesn't make sense. The roads are clear. Last night the issue was preparation. They didnt salt the roads
[stands on soapbox] Athletic subscription is worth it [steps off soapbox] Love Article: Spoiler SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Julian Love has just had a strong day of practice. He will never tell you this himself, but there is no hiding from the previous two hours’ worth of efforts when Miles Boykin walks past an interview Love is conducting and offers him the most ambivalent of praises. “Good play today,” Boykin, a receiver, says with a smile, passing by the cornerback. “I hated it, but good play.” Love, too, is smiling, which is par for the course. He answers almost every question about his All-America-caliber season while flashing an I-know-something-you-don’t grin, letting you in on how he feels without actually telling you that yes, this has been quite the campaign for the former three-star prospect, who needed five games in his junior season to break the career record for pass breakups at No. 3 Notre Dame, which is 10-0. “I thought I was having an OK year, for sure,” Love says of that record. “I think everybody does a good job keeping me humble around here, like Miles, the coaches, my friends, teammates, and so I set pretty high goals for myself.” “I wouldn’t say I was the best player,” he’ll later add of his prep career, “but when one of your better players is on defense, you put him at safety.” “We avoid all that because that could lead to like fights,” he’ll demur when asked if he’s faster than younger brother Michael, currently a three-star prospect himself. “We’re both very competitive, and so I just let him have it. He’ll win. Like, there’s no point. He will win. And he’ll tell you he will win.” Taken on the surface, these quotes can read as boring or canned. But the thing about being the smartest person in a room at any given time is knowing that there will be opportunities to show what you know without showing off. The gift of gab comes easily to Love, who is majoring in management consulting but, more importantly, saw first-hand while growing up what it takes to get ahead in this world thanks to his father, Detraiter, who is now hotel manager at The Palmer House Hilton, credited as the longest continuously operating hotel in North America. “In hospitality, that’s it, that’s everything: it’s the people,” Julian Love says. “That’s how you make your money, and so that’s how he’s definitely advanced, because of the people person that he is and just knowing the intuition of the business. That’s what’s made him successful.” The football part was less smooth at times for Love, whose size (5 feet 11) initially scared off Power 5 programs. He played basketball and baseball and wrestled. He attended a half-dozen or so Irish football games as a kid, given his father’s affinity for the Golden Domers as a sports-crazed resident of nearby Chicago. His father even scored sideline passes for the Irish’s 2010 game against Michigan, but he was told he could not bring his sons to the field with him because of potential NCAA violations, should Notre Dame eventually recruit one of them. He laughed at that one at the time. He laughs even harder now. View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter Julian Love ✔ @julianlove27 Wow what a #tbt when I was like 11 at a Notre Dame game. #GOIRISH 46 6:56 PM - Apr 9, 2015 See Julian Love's other Tweets Twitter Ads info and privacy “Three years later, and it’s still unbelievable to me to see him run out with the gold helmet on,” Detraiter Love says. “It really is. If someone could see my face every time they run out, it’s like the first time he ran out. It’s really amazing, because I’m a fan. I was a fan before he got there, and now I’m really, really a fan. It’s an amazing feeling.” Detraiter Love’s office might actually rival Brian Kelly’s digs when it comes to sports-obsessed shrines. Whereas the Boston-bred Kelly’s wall features signed bats from former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, the golf-nut Love’s wall contains a signed photo of Love on the links with Tiger Woods. Whereas Kelly has a shelf with all of the helmets of teams he has coached, Love has a gold Irish helmet featured behind his desk that cannot be missed when walking in. There are pictures of all three of his kids, of Michael Jordan and of the Chicago White Sox, who in the past have taken their annual SoxFest fan convention to the Palmer House. Julian counts meeting members of the 2005 World Series team among his best memories of a place he basically grew up in. “That was so cool,” Julian Love says. “I was so young, we went through all the back ways through the hotel that my dad was lining up to meet with these people, and it was just VIP access, it seemed. It was the best feeling.” Love returned a blocked PAT for two points last Saturday against Florida State. (Matt Cashore / USA TODAY Sports) Detraiter, who goes by DT, grew up in Memphis and played basketball at Wentworth Military Academy and Junior College in Missouri. The barrel-chested DT jokes that that was 150 pounds ago. He ended up in Chicago as an auditor, fell for the first work friend he met and, given the conflict of interest, searched for a new career, which brought him into the hospitality industry, in security. He says he tells everyone that this was a Love story, smiling as he waits for the punch line to finally land. He has worked his way up the corporate ladder across the past 23 years, from the Hilton Chicago’s assistant front office director to event manager, from the Palmer House’s assistant event director to its catering and events director, and finally from executive assistant manager to hotel manager this past February. The family has moved from the North Side’s Logan Square neighborhood to the Western suburbs of Westchester since then, all while their kids blossomed as athletes. It was Julian’s mother, Ivonne, who initially got him into football, and she was only able to do that because older sister Devinne, then 7, volunteered to play with then-5-year-old Julian in a co-ed flag league. “I’ll be honest with you: When he first played his first year, I didn’t pay much attention to him,” DT says. “I was too busy looking at my daughter play, who was really, really good.” Devinne was the first of the family’s athletes to enter Nazareth Academy, as a basketball player. Michael is now a do-everything senior football player weighing several MAC offers. Like Julian, he is undersized (5-9), which explains the relative lack of college attention. It may have been that way for his taller-by-two-inches big brother, too, were it not for the foresight of his father. The family made a trip to Madison, Wis., for a football camp the summer before Julian’s eighth-grade year. When Julian, a lifelong running back, went to the registration table, he was discouraged to find himself listed as a defensive back. He begrudgingly went through the motions until the camp’s final day, which came after a dinner conversation with DT in which his father revealed that he was the one who had signed Julian up for the secondary, sensing that this would be the best way for his son to draw next-level attention upon getting to high school. By the time he was making a name for himself under Tim Racki at Nazareth, the coach’s favorite defense was simply called “Golden Domer,” a scheme designed to allow Love to freelance in the middle of the field. In the spring of 2015, the Loves made three consecutive weekend visits to Notre Dame — the first to meet with Irish defensive assistants Todd Lyght and Brian VanGorder, the second for Junior Day, the third for a 7-on-7 tournament. Love was “an athlete,” and it was not clear if he would land a Notre Dame offer. He had told his parents before sitting down with Kelly during that middle visit that he was not going to commit on the spot if that dream offer came through, instead wishing to delay the handshake until the following weekend’s trip. Kelly offered with the Love family together in his office, and Julian immediately said yes anyway. “There’s a debate on if I had tears in my eyes or not,” DT says of the moment. “Julian and my wife say I did. I don’t remember that. But it was an unbelievable moment.” This time of the year is especially hectic for the Loves, with Devinne in her first year of a Master’s program at Loyola, with Ivonne working at an auto body repair shop as the never-ending Chicago winter arrives, with Michael making a state title run and with Julian in the midst of a national title chase. There are, of course, DT’s duties, too. Take the weekend of Sept. 21-23, for example: The Loves attended Michael’s game at Benet Academy on Friday night, drove 12 hours to Wake Forest for Julian’s game the next day — a rare noon kickoff — and headed right back to Chicago, as DT had to be in his office the following morning to help manage matters amid a three-week hotel worker strike. Love has 14 pass breakups and one interception so far in his junior season. (Robin Alam / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) All of this makes it easy to understand why Mom and Dad told Julian before he left for college that they were only going to travel to road games if their son was going to play — which made the late August 2016 phone call home ahead of the Irish’s opener at Texas all the more dramatic. Julian: Mom, are you guys going to Austin? Ivonne: We told you we’re not traveling unless you play. Julian, after a long pause: Mom, are you guys going to Austin? He started by his fifth game of his first fall and has made 30 consecutive starts since, tallying three defensive touchdowns, recording five interceptions, recovering four fumbles and scoring on a two-point conversion that came off a blocked extra point attempt this past Saturday against Florida State. His ability to make plays from all over the field is nothing new, considering he did just that while at Nazareth, albeit not at punter, which is where Michael can one-up him at the prep level. The only full game Julian played at corner came in the 2014 state title game against Lemont, whose top player, current Northwestern receiver Flynn Nagel, needed one touchdown to tie the state record. Love made sure Nagel, and his team, stayed in second. Listening to his prep and college head coaches speak separately about Love is in many ways akin to having the same conversation twice. “It was another simple conversation: Julian is the best kid, here’s what we wanna do, we wanna take him out and let your brothers over here take care of anything else and let them beat us that way, not with Nagel,” Racki says. “And it was just, ‘OK.’ And he repped it all week like he did any other scheme that we had and embraced it.” Echoes Kelly: “He gets young guys to follow him by example. When you describe certain players in the program, Julian is a great leader because he espouses all the things that we talk about relative to the traits that you need, and he’s a great one to model for all of our young players.” There remains that devilish — who, me? — side to Love, whose teammates call him the most underrated talker on the team. What that exactly means is open to interpretation. “I get away with it,” he says, laughing. “I’m not flashy. I’m not gonna hold up. I’m gonna walk somewhere and still talk to somebody who’s next to me even if I’m not facing them — if they warrant it.” He has a babyface that makes him look exactly the same now as he did in high school. It is disarming enough to make him arguably the most charismatic player in an Irish locker room filled with them, his aversion to pumping himself up be damned. He calls JJ Arcega-Whiteside the toughest receiver he has faced, but talking is limited against a like-minded rival such as Stanford. “That respect is great between the two programs,” Love says. “Versus USC, not as much.” Athletic director Jack Swarbrick calls Love among the most integrated players in the program. The 193-pounder is more likely than not to be spotted on campus without any team-issued apparel, and just as likely to be hanging with non-teammates when outside the Gug. He appreciates the anonymity that his size and his school grant him when out of shoulder pads, which is why his favorite class this semester is business problem solving. “It focuses heavily on group work, which is tough because I travel a lot,” Love says. “But I’m in a group with a bunch of seniors who have literally their jobs lined up for next year and who are great people who really work with me.” Love can have his next gig lined up, too, if he chooses to enter the draft this winter. His father has said the decision is all his son’s, and there really is no wrong choice either way: Either Julian will graduate with a degree from one of the nation’s top business schools next December, or he will exit with all sorts of individual — and perhaps team — accolades in two months. Love is in no rush to make that decision, not with two games separating Notre Dame from the College Football Playoff. Like his father, he has been playing the long game his whole life, and he knows a good deal when he sees one.
Guys I am scared. That said, I hope UCF gets torn apart by Cincy, the world's largest community college really needs to be humbled.
I'm fine with UCF being good, especially in a bad college football year like this Our game today is scary because Syracuse is not good against the run and we've been awful at running the ball against teams who are not good at stopping the run Take what they give us! Gfy
I like UCF being good, it makes it fun, but they have gotten way to uppity with their calls for Bama and going after us. And agreed.
If the bars at 10am are any indication, it’s 75/25 ND fans. Will probably be closer to 60/40 for the game though
Heading over to Purcell for the game everyone is excited about. Bball vs William and Mary. Let's go Irish!
Anyone else see Ohio State imploding so far. Wow Edit: Maryland recovered perfectly placed a kickoff at the 20 after they ripped off an 80 yd TD only to try a trick play and fumble