Faceman wrote:he went on about how playing Purdue, MSU, Indiana and all the Big 10 teams didn't excite him. Really? Check out half your schedule then.
That guy is a buffoon. Or probably just one of those people with red hair and an O and an apostrophe in his name who assumes that he HAS to like Notre Dame. [expletive], ND might as well be part of the Big Ten already. Michigan, Michigan St., and Purdue are all annual games. Penn St. has been on their schedule in recent years, too.
Right but if they had to play real teams besides the two service schools or basketball schools (Pitt, UNC, Connecticut) they wouldn't wanna play USC any more.
I was raised on ND football, but sometimes I wish they'd shut up and play [expletive] football.
I'm thinking no way does ND join a conference. As an independent, hey don't have to share any money they make from a bowl with other teams in a conference, not to mention their own TV contract.
st.lewis11 wrote:I'm thinking no way does ND join a conference. As an independent, hey don't have to share any money they make from a bowl with other teams in a conference, not to mention their own TV contract.
Unless ND goes to a BCS bowl, they aren't making as much money as the lowest programs in the Big 10.
They may not join a conference, but if it's because of money, they are bad at math.
st.lewis11 wrote:I'm thinking no way does ND join a conference. As an independent, hey don't have to share any money they make from a bowl with other teams in a conference, not to mention their own TV contract.
That TV money isn't going to last much longer if Notre Dame doesn't get it's act together immediately. I see no indication whatsoever that things will change for the better anytime soon in South Bend.
The Notre Dame alums sound like the Army die hards who cannot understand why Army doesn't dominate college football like they did in the 40s and 50s.
Times have changed. Too many ND alums and boosters have not figured that out.
The intelligent thing for ND to to is to get into the B-10 ASAP.
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if Notre Dame isn't careful they could be left out in the cold in a new college football world of superconferences. If they don't get into whatever the Big 10 is becoming, the Big 12 dissolves with a merger with the Pac 10, and the SEC poaches some of the Big 12 and some of the ACC, Notre Dame will be left finding a way into the whatever is left of the ACC/Big East conference that will undoubtedly bring in less revenue.
so their decision really comes down to whether or not they think conference realignment is going to happen, whether this Big 10 thing causes the domino effect some think it will.
st.lewis11 wrote:I'm thinking no way does ND join a conference. As an independent, hey don't have to share any money they make from a bowl with other teams in a conference, not to mention their own TV contract.
That TV money isn't going to last much longer if Notre Dame doesn't get it's act together immediately. I see no indication whatsoever that things will change for the better anytime soon in South Bend.
The Notre Dame alums sound like the Army die hards who cannot understand why Army doesn't dominate college football like they did in the 40s and 50s.
Times have changed. Too many ND alums and boosters have not figured that out.
The intelligent thing for ND to to is to get into the B-10 ASAP.
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I find it funny that Notre Dame was an illegal push into the end zone away from playing for a national championship FIVE YEARS AGO and yet we're supposed to buy into the narrative that the game has passed Notre Dame by.
ND has played Penn State all of two times since PSU joined the Big Ten - as many times as they've played Ohio State and Texas (reg-season) in the same time frame and less than they've played Tennessee or Florida State. They're not constantly playing Penn State.
ndistops wrote:I find it funny that Notre Dame was an illegal push into the end zone away from playing for a national championship FIVE YEARS AGO and yet we're supposed to buy into the narrative that the game has passed Notre Dame by.
2008 was the first bowl game they won since 1995. So sure had it not been for the Bush Push they prolly would have lost the title game instead of the Fiesta Bowl. I'm an ND fan too, but with the SEC's laughable academic standards and the BCS system benefiting, IMO, conferences it is the smart thing to do. Right now their recruiting 'edge' is the NBC contract, but if they keep going 7-6 and 6-6 they are going to lose that and lots of exposure and not have a conference to join.
Since Holtz ND Football has been sliding. Unless they plan to abolish their academic standards and graduation rates, they are going to need to do something else.
If Mizzou joins the Big Ten does that mean when they play Illinois instead of having it at the Edward Jones Dome they would rotate years of having it on each others campuses?
