Uncritical devotion.... Are you a fan?

Your family receives UNconditional love...

Your team?...UNcritical devotion...  

What is a fan?

"FAN" 

Short for "FANATIC"

Fa-nat-ic adjective /fe-'na-tik/

:marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense

uncritical devotion.

<they're fanatic about their team. 

UNcritical devotion?

There is a place where reality and perception meet...

It's called a "FAN'S MIND" 

They "perceive" what they feel is "reality" and through

"UNcritical" devotion convince themselves it's real!

Trust me...I live in Ohio, NOBODY sees this more 

than I've seen it in my 42 years!

But we all suffer from it here and there!

We all get a bit too excited...or a bit too sad over

events and at the end of the day....analysis of the 

situation will cure all!

Recruiting...the intense overdramatic 

male version of "Days of our lives"

...and like sands through the hour glass...so goes the 

2014 recruiting cycle to an end!..

The rich got richer...the poor got poorer and

 I'm sure there was some shady dealings 

that will make Sports-Center

when discovered...

College Football Recruiting...it's the one thing that

makes grown men into idiots...because they feel 

watching two minutes of YOUTUBE highlights 

from dozens of games...gives them the 

SAME INSIGHT, as college coaches making 

MILLIONS a year on a evaluating

a kids talent level!...

"I was watching "FILM" on this kid..he's a must

get for us!"

YOUTUBE CLIPS ARE NOT FILM!

Years ago Lucent Technology was a growing company 

in Columbus Ohio...and a little old lady,that was 

referred to me from the assembly line area

that was nearing retirement...

Lucent had enjoyed much success but was capped out!

I BEGGED her to sell her stock...BEGGED!

"I can't, my friend on the line next to me said 

HE THINKS it's gonna split..." 

Yeah..it SPLIT...as in leaving town..her half million 

was reduced to less than fifty grand...because her 

"friend" wasn't QUALIFIED to make that 

analysis...

The "FACEBOOK" fan page of wanna be sports 

news people are the worst at this...

Heck...most of your "Big Boy" sites are just throwing 

spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks!

Leave the analysis to the people QUALIFIED to 

make the proper analysis!!

Brian Kelly just inked what I feel, and many sites like

247 Sports and Rivals agree, as a "SUPERB" class!

CLICK ON ME!

Let's talk "COLLEGE FOOTBALL" conditioning!

The "art" of "development" 

The ability to take this:

Spring game 2007..Then 5 months later!

This is June 7 on 7s soph year!

So....what do you think:

6'6 252lb Grant Blankenship 

or

6'3 253lb Jonathan Bonner

or

6'3 275lb Daniel Cage

or

6'4 275lb Jay Hayes

or

6'5 265lb Andrew Trumbetti

or

6'6 235lb Jonathon Williams

What will they look like in nine months?

What size...strength...speed can they add?

This is a new era...no more 5'11 D tackles 

cause that's all you can land...

At some point you have to realize that the 

coaches at THE University of Notre Dame 

might know a bit more than you do. 

NO MATTER how much Madden or 

NCAA you've played!

You have to realize..the coaches don't look

at "star" ratings!

They don't care what a"web-site" says about

 one kid or another....

And thank goodness for that or we may have never

had Ian Williams...or Tyler Eifert...

We would have never seen the Honey Badger or

Johnny Football!

So relax...

Let the "QUALIFIED" identify the talent...

Let the "QUALIFIED" recruit whom they see as

good fits into the locker room and class room,

that's coaching!

We didn't hire  them because 

we thought they were UNqualified!

We've got the best coaches...

Let's be the best fans!...

And the next time your "fired up" that this kid or 

that kid is IRISH material or not....Just sit back 

and realize...you're not "QUALIFIED" to make that

ASSumption...

Now...for a bit of around the water cooler chit

chat I'm hearing...

 EVERETT GOLSON

I heard from a DB on the team that was 

excited to see Golson live...

"I didn't see him..he was gone when I arrived!"

So I said..now that you've seen him and how 

he can throw...what are your thoughts?

"I thought how much difference could there be?

Tommy was a senior and was a good QB from 

what I'd seen in practice and games."

"But then Everett threw the ball with some of the 

guys, it only took about ten minutes to see how

big a difference there really is."

"Everett can throw to pockets that only the 

receiver can get to the ball."

"When a WR catches the ball you don't just

see it...you hear it!" 

"He throws with so much power and accuracy, it's

gonna make me better practicing against it!"

"He's challenging all of us and we've not even

begun to practice...this is just pick up throw

around time when we can get together!" 

Grab your glass...toast this class and realize...

WE WON 9 GAMES with our back up QB!

We beat top teams in the country with a 

"skeleton crew" on D!

We just infused talent, that we've not had 

in DECADES, into a program that

was already loaded with play makers!

There has NEVER been a time to be more excited

than now for Notre Dame football...

So stop creating drama when there isn't a 

reason for it!

GOD BLESS & GO IRISH!