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The Ledger: RY 12-5 | Rylie 9-8
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RY: Cignetti canceled Notre Dame for 2030 and 2031, then told BTN they ought to come to Bloomington twice.
RYLIE: Wait, what?
RY: He asked out of a home-and-home, then demanded the better parking spots on the way out.
RYLIE: We’ve got Cignetti rewriting a rivalry he just ducked, Aaron Judge throwing again in New York, and the NCAA’s last clean October shot at killing midyear roster shopping in college hockey.
RY: I watched that 2024 playoff game.
RYLIE: Here we go.
RY: Notre Dame 27, Indiana 17 in South Bend. First campus playoff game in FBS history. Irish shoved them out after a week of him talking like his team was built to hunt ranked scalps.
RYLIE: And then he went 16-0.
RY: Fair.
RY: That is elite coaching. What it is not—
RYLIE: A clean break.
RY: Exactly. From a program that owns the all-time series 24-5-1 and still owns the last meeting.
RYLIE: He is 27-2 in two seasons at Indiana.
RY: So what.
RYLIE: [scoffs] So what? That title is the entire leverage argument.
RY: Leverage to cancel first and then act like the Irish are the difficult ones?
RYLIE: He said he’d like to play them. Wants two home games because they’re not in a conference.
RY: That is not a scheduling pitch.
RYLIE: No.
RY: That is a guy who requested the exit and tried to rewrite the terms on camera.
RYLIE: I hear you, but the series was contracted under Tom Allen and Brian Kelly. Indiana asked out. Notre Dame filled the dates.
RY: Then stop the BTN tour about backstory he doesn’t quite know.
RYLIE: He did say that.
RY: Come on.
RY: Plus the line about the Big Ten being pretty darn tough too, as if toughness is something you announce after you duck the one in-state game that still lives in every Hoosier highlight reel.
RYLIE: You’re taking this personally.
RY: I believe what I saw. He got the revenge the long way in 2025. Own the cancel. Don’t pretend they owe him two trips.
RYLIE: Numbers say a 27-2 coach can ask for whatever he wants.
RY: Numbers don’t buy respect.
RYLIE: Says who?
RY: Says the 2024 tape.
RYLIE: [laughs] Tape is undefeated with you.
RY: Always.
RYLIE: Dumb question a casual fan would actually ask—can he just cancel a contracted series like it’s a brunch plan?
RY: Apparently yes, then hold a press tour about who should drive farther.
RYLIE: That’s fair.
RY: Title run does not erase the duck or the loss still hanging over him.
RYLIE: We’ll see who blinks on the next version of the series.
RY: Judge threw a baseball on Friday and if you felt nothing you have not watched this Yankees lineup try to score without him.
RYLIE: It was catch.
RY: It was the first honest step.
RYLIE: Boone called it part of the ramp-up. Early stages. No bat yet.
RY: Boone is still editing. Judge already wrote the ending.
RYLIE: How.
RY: August 5, scans clear him for light work, and he basically frog-marches the staff outside—I’ll be back this season. I don’t know why I wouldn’t be.
RYLIE: Stress fracture of the first rib on the right side.
RY: Traced to a dive in Houston on April 26. Heroic until the imaging comes back ugly.
RYLIE: He tried to gut it out. Production cratered. One homer in his last 18 games before the IL.
RY: Body finally won that argument.
RY: Now the body is losing it. He played catch. He ran. In New York.
RYLIE: I hear you, but Boone’s caution is the only responsible read. Hopefully he progresses this week. We’ll see what else gets introduced.
RY: Soft language is his job.
RYLIE: And three-time MVP certainty is Judge’s.
RY: Exactly—this is the only credible path left for a team that has been mediocre without him.
RYLIE: Mediocre is doing a lot of work there.
RY: You watched the same games I did.
RYLIE: [exhales] I did.
RY: So when the biggest bat in the building says the plan never changed, I’m taking the player over the weather report.
RYLIE: I’ll take the ramp-up schedule until I see a bat in his hands.
RY: Deal. Eyes on this week.
RYLIE: Nope—eyes on September baseball activity, not vibes.
RY: Vibes got us here.
RYLIE: Ha!
RY: Curveball time. College hockey turned into a rental lot with the lights left on last winter.
RYLIE: Midyear enrollees.
RY: January became a second draft. Boston University, Boston College, Providence, Michigan, Miami, Northern Michigan, Colorado College, Bemidji State—programs loading bodies midstream like semester break was another signing period.
RYLIE: That is acquisition, not development.
RY: Thank you.
RY: It’s an affront to every kid who earned a spot in September and watched his ice time get auctioned off after finals.
RYLIE: The Division I Cabinet flagged it in the June 23-24 report—eligibility of student-athletes who initially enroll midyear. They keep discussing it.
RY: Discussing is not outlawing.
RYLIE: October vote is the clean shot. Eliminate midseason additions in sports that span both semesters. Hockey sits right there.
RY: Stamp it. Make it permanent.
RYLIE: I hear the passion, but some of those additions are kids who graduated early or flipped late. Not every move is a rental villain.
RY: Enough of them were.
RYLIE: Mike McMahon put it clean—if approved, the proposal could outlaw midseason additions in college hockey.
RY: Good.
RYLIE: You’re not wrong that the second half looked like a revolving door.
RY: Roster, not a rental market. Lock the gate.
RYLIE: [sighs] October better not blink.
RY: Ledger time. I took MIL over LAD.
RYLIE: And they won 4-1.
RY: Clean. Brewers handled business. I look very smart.
RYLIE: I took PHI over MIN and they dropped 9-1.
RY: Also clean.
RYLIE: We both cashed. No excuse card tonight.
RY: Running it—I’m 13-5.
RYLIE: I’m 10-8. Still chasing.
RY: Give me NYY over TOR.
RYLIE: Of course you are.
RY: Judge energy. Road trip. I’m in.
RYLIE: Give me SD over CLE. Quieter spot. I like the road bat.
RY: Tomorrow we find out if Cignetti’s next interview softens or if Judge actually picks up a bat.
RY: That’s the Rundown. Same time tomorrow — bring your takes.