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Hello all! I've been reading this forum for many years and I don't post much (in fact this might be my first), but I wanted to say thanks to those who do. Granted, sometimes some of the posts, and exchanges between some posters, can be goofy/petty/nonsensical, and occasionally down-right mean and insulting, but by and large, to me anyway, posters here always seem to provide good analysis and thought provoking questions. I'm a disabled senior who doesn't get out much now, so coming to this forum to read up on the latest about our Lady's University is a highlight of my day (of course at my age, going into a room and remembering why I'm there is a highlight too so I admit the bar isn't set too high). As far as going to games, I've only been to one at ND. Years ago our kids surprised my wife and I (for our 30th anniversary) with tickets to a game at ND. We knew something was up because because in the months before they had been asking us if we could ever go to a game - which one would it be. We knew that tickets to the big games were more expensive, and those games were sure to be stressful, so we chose the Duke game - 2016. Everyone figured that we would crush them, so it seemed like a great game to go to, where we wouldn't loose! We all know how that turned out, and it was not the kind of anniversary gift we wanted, but we were still overjoyed to be there! While in South Bend, I remember seeing a local newscast soon after the game where Brian Kelly said he was sticking with Brian VanGorder. The next day he fired him. I got the feeling there was no real plan for that season and the 4-8 record kind of verified that. I don't know too much about the nitty gritty details of coverages, and schemes, but I love to read posts from people here who do. I can only offer something my old high school coach would do which seemed to work: We had a coaching change and the new head Coach inherited a kid with a rocket arm, but who loved to throw interceptions. Not on purpose, but it always seemed like it. Anyway, the (new) coach went out and bought a bunch of the same color shirts as the jersey's of the team we were to play next. Light or dark, depending on if we were home or they were. Anyway, I don't know if that did the trick alone did it, or if was something else did, but the interception king suddenly stopped tossing it to the wrong team, hardly ever after that. He still over threw it sometimes, and our receivers sometimes couldn't hang on to the ball, but the number of interceptions nearly went to nil. So the next week, and every week after, the defense was practicing in shirts the same color as what our upcoming opponent would wear. This new coach of ours would also have anyone who fumbled carry a football from the end of the game (where they fumbled) until the next game. Everyone in our school instantly knew, if they saw you carrying a football, that you had fumbled. Today, they probably wouldn't let you do that, but believe me, it worked. It's not that your hands got any stronger but the embarrassment gave our backs a little more incentive to hold on to the ball! In any event, thanks for letting an old man read and learn from you folks, it's always been fun, or at least entertaining!