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35 weeks 17 hours ago on your realignment notes...

Boeheim's being a dishonest ass. The decision was made by the Big East and not ND:

Big East commissioner John Marinatto said there were mixed feelings about turning down ESPN's deal initially -- and the divide was pretty much between the so-called basketball members and the football members -- but the announcement of the Pac-12's lucrative deal ($3 billion over 12 years) convinced them all it was the right move.

"The [price of programming] dramatically changed when the Pac-12 announced its deal," Marinatto said. "And we were unanimous. There was splintering before that, but, on that day, we were unanimous 'we're walking away.' College football has firmly been implanted as the No. 2 most popular sport.

"What we bring to the table in terms of assets is very unique and going last and having last at-bats [among the major conferences negotiating new TV deals] provide us the opportunity to evaluate what everyone else has done."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11215/1164696-233-0.stm

In fact, the Pitt AD wanted to hold off on the contract in an attempt to expand to 12 members.
36 weeks 5 days ago Mike Martin + banged up = vomit on keyboard

Mike Martin + banged up = vomit on keyboard
37 weeks 6 days ago Wasn't there some mention of restricting Robinson?

I think Hoke mentioned he wanted to restrict Robinson to 10 or 15 (as opposed to 20) runs per game: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/30957/confident-denard-robinson-embraces-changes

I think the net effect might be losing a game or two early on as a result, but a much healthier Robinson down the stretch.
38 weeks 1 day ago Sorry if this has been answered before

But what the hell was up with Vorax? Is there some insider story about the stuffed animal out there? Or is it yet another mystery of the GERG?
47 weeks 14 hours ago As a dumb sidebar question

Why is it that folks can never seem to get the name of ND's coach right? For the longest time, you'd hear folks talking about Coach Davies or Coach Weiss. For a while, it looked like Coach Meyers would take over the Irish until he took over Florida and changed his name to Meyer. Now they've got this new fella, Coach Kelley?

 

I guess everybody like Coach Willingham enough to get his name right. That's probably because he sucked.
50 weeks 5 days ago The correct answer is "whatever makes you most marketable"

I'd say being able to stamp the name of a Fortune 500 company or a company most everyone's heard of (something like LinkedIn) is going to give any resume a huge boost. If you have that opportunity, it'd be hard to turn down.

Howeva, if you're in something like graphic design, you have to keep in mind that your resume is ancillary. In the case of design, you're being judged moreso by the quality of your portfolio than by resume per say. In that case, whatever option gives you better opportunities to enhance your portfolio with quality entries is where you want to go.

Similarly, if you're into programming or web design nothing sells like "go to this website and see this nifty bit of code I wrote." A small company is much more likely to give a summer intern that opportunity. My first internship was at a 10 person company and I wrote code for their flagship software. They let me hand out demo CDs with my segment of their software. That ended up netting me an internship the next summer at a Fortune 500 company.

I guess there's a lot of "it depends" in my answer. Big companies are safer because you'll be able to stamp "Famous Company" on your resume, but working for a small company can have tremendous upside, too.
1 year 5 weeks ago I too think Collins is most at fault

The extent of that fault, however, is unclear. What is clear is that Collins wasn't using appropriate information to inform his decision. Was Collins's approach typical for others making similar decisions? If so, his error was systematic. If not, why did he use those particular means for gathering information? Did he lack education? Was he properly educated but using an improper procedure?
1 year 5 weeks ago You should really read the report pages 17-20

http://nd.edu/assets/files/notre-dame-investigation-report.pdf
1 year 5 weeks ago Could it be that they see

Could it be that they see things differently than you? Perhaps they even agree with the findings?

You seem to be coming at this that Brian Kelly had some sort of "Code Red" moment, ordering Sullivan up into the lift and that's "the truth" that everybody knows and the family is party to covering up.

In fact, it's really not. Kelly and the coaching staff made the decision to practice outside. The decision for videographers to use the lifts or not was made by the video staff (Collins). Collins was using improper information to judge whether lifts were safe to use, although he was diligently checking in on the conditions.

There were many failings along the way for this tragedy to occur. Some demand a pound of flesh. Others just hope that policies and practices change (which ND has taken steps towards) to prevent this from happening again. Unfortuantely, neither will restore Declan.
1 year 6 weeks ago Actually, this response is

Actually, this response is consistent between even old and new regime. Will Yeatman got a DUI during Spring 2008. He later violated his probation during the 2008 season, leading to his suspension from football and school. Yeatman left the university of his own accord.

That's pretty consistent with the Floyd case. It's also consistent with the treatment of "normal" students at ND for DUIs.
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