Just heard that QB Dylan McCaffrey is opting out and transferring from Michigan.

Just wondering where you think he will end up or if you've heard anything? It seems like he never got a real fair shot at Michigan. Maybe somewhat akin to Jurkovec at ND.

but they were talking about McCaffrey transfering on ESPNU and they got talking about how everybody thought that Harbaugh was going to be a QB developing machine at Michigan, but so far he hasn't developed squat and has run through a ton of QB's in the process.

Greg McElroy specifically talked about Dylan and said that in his time at Michigan he never improved as a QB. Very athletic kid but not a good thrower and Harbaugh hadn't developed him in that phase of the game.

that was a mistake, IMO.

that's where his dad is coaching.

I would think Stanford might be interested, among others.

Part of my opinion has to do with my opinion of his dad.

Clemson, LSU, Oklahoma, Bama. Even USC or Wisconsin.

you guys might be right.

Since Harbaugh went to the candy assed spread.

no idea what he was thinking.

He worried me more when he entered the game vs ND in 2018 than the starter.

I thought he would eventually be the starter there, but it never materialized

UM he looked to have a ton of potential

but yet never underestimate the powers of denial of the Notre Dame homer.

He became notably more accurate without sacrificing YPA and his TD/INT ratio was better. But he missed time in the middle of the season with a concussion, took a few weeks to get back in and then lost his job to Maguire with 9 throws against NC State.

They were all failures in some sense of the word. Namely, that they couldn't lead an ND team to win a big game vs a top tier opponent (@oklahoma being something doesn't prove that much in the ned). So is it that the ND coaches recruited flawed QB's that were never any good or was it good QB's that didn't have good coaching? Highly or lightly recruited QB's all seem to end out the same way. So either the coaching staff are crap at evaluation talent or they are crap at teaching the talent or perhaps both?

It makes permanent. I'm not sure who first said this, but it applies perfectly to Notre Dame quarterbacks under Kelly. If you repeatedly practice a flawed procedure then permanent habits form. These can be difficult to nearly impossible to break.

"Perfect practice makes perfect." Same concept.

I've heard "perfect practice prevents piss poor performance."

That was from former coach Chuck "Hard" Knox. As old school as it would get.

at how to develop a plan to avoid civil liability for sexual assaults and negligent homicide than your head coach is at developing NFL quarterbacks, you get what you get.

He's a Dick Addis-class weather forecaster. He can hair split on the WSJ op-ed page in a way befitting of his Stanford Law degree. He can quietly slide ND FB into a short-term conference affiliation that shows all outward signs of becoming a long-term commitment. He can turn ND stadium into a fully carpeted full-service network TV infomercial venue. He can pimp the brand in ways that us mere mortals have never dreamed of.

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger and you don't mess around w/ him.

I'll leave it at that.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how we could get rid of Savvy Jack? I sent a letter to the board of fellows back in 2016 about how because of him I would not donate to the university, go to any FB games, etc. Should we all commit to new letters? Petition? Embed articles into the Observer? Find an influencer with a similar mentality? Or just keep hating the situation?

They share a vision. Of what, I'm not sure.

Full value for the brand