OT: Are you rooting for Notre Dame?
Naturally, Michigan fans are born with a disdain for Notre Dame. Recent years, however, have given us a more than sufficient dislike of any and all things SEC. That being said, who will you be rooting for in the NC game?
For me, my hatred of the SEC will win out here and I'll be rooting for the Irish.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
Maybe some of it is true of Michigan fans, but this is a Michigan Blog, and I am a Michigan Fan. If anything, it's even more reason for us to be natural enemies. And it's not jealousy, it's about bringing delusional fans down a peg.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:39 PM ^
Yes, no question. My step-dad is an alum, and I've got good friends that went there as well. My biggest problem with ND fans is that they act as if ND has unparalleled tradition. So that's what holds me back... but we're not just rooting against Alabama... we're rooting against the SEC. The SEC has been riding the coat tails of Alabama, LSU (and i guess Florida, but Urban's gone.)
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:39 PM ^
Roll Damn Tide.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:41 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
No. Roll Tide
I hate Alabma, but I hate ND more.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
Maybe. If there is a fire.
Otherwise, NO.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:41 PM ^
Will never root for ND, don't know what I would do if the played ohio. Hope for a scoreless tie I guess.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:41 PM ^
I'm rooting for a cholera outbreak in the stadium.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:42 PM ^
I think I might root for Notre Dame if the national championship was between ND and Ohio State. But that is just about the only scenario in which I would root for them.
I put 35 confidence points on Bama. Not because I am that confident in Bama, but because I don't even want to picture the media reaction should Notre Dame win.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:43 PM ^
Root for arguably our biggest recruiting rival? Non, merci.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:44 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:30 PM ^
Sure, but winning the title will give them a much longer honeymoon period than losing will. Not to mention that it will make Kelly bulletproof there forever.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:44 PM ^
To hell with Notre Dame...
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:45 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:46 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:47 PM ^
So I'll just watch. I seldom get to watch an inteResting game withOut having a bias toward a particuLar team for some reason.
...I wiLl have a smile come To my face If ND gEts blown out, though.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:05 PM ^
We need the old voting system back. This deserves far more than merely 5 points.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:28 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2013 at 1:49 PM ^
ND competes more directly with Michigan for recruits.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:49 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:50 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:50 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
Both head coaches are head cases.
The ESS EEE SEE has already proven itself vulnerable this bowl season, so I can't root against Alabama on that basis...
I truly despise the Irish and their fans' arrogance more than I despise Alabama fans and their lack of intellect.
Hoping for an Alabama BLOWOUT of Neuter Dame.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
Are you fucking kidding? No.
Just because people don't understand the idea of oversigning and don't understand that oversigning is a major reason for the recent success of Bama Football doesn't mean I have to root for the insufferable traditionalist garbage spewers in South Bend.
I hate Bama just as I hated USC , Miami, etc. but I have always hated Notre Dame. Evene when they were a flaming pile of fat shit i still hated them. I will always hate them. Too cool for the party, eh? Too much tradition, huh? Rudy? Fuck off.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
Threads like this always seem to be started by somebody who is sheepishly looking for approval to cheer, cheer for ol' Not-rah Dame.
Look elsewhere.
Q. "Are you rooting for Notre Dame?"
A. "No. Thank you for asking and have a nice day."
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:01 PM ^
the rest of you may as well just stop posting now. I'm not leaving this spot.
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:07 PM ^
Roll Tide! (cause you can't have one without the other)
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:52 PM ^
ND is a recruiting rival and will be insufferable if they win a NC. Also there is a good chance this win would push Saban out the door to the NFL.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:54 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:54 PM ^
Bane to blow up the Stadium
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:54 PM ^
but we recruit against leprechauns not elephants
roll tide.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
I hate Alabama winning the NC more than Notre Dame, unfortunately. I can't get past oversigning.
If Alabama gets to take 5 players for every 4 we take, then we might as well get 5 downs to get a first.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:59 PM ^
I hate it too, but it is within the rules. Just as when we (Michigan) had no limit to scholorships because we had seemingly endless funding from donors. We just did it first and it wasn't fair, but it was within the rules. I don't like it either and am proud that the B1G won't allow it, but those are the rules. NCAA! Woo!
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:56 PM ^
I don't plan on watching the game either.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:57 PM ^
It would be cool to have the national champions come into the Big House for a night game
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
Roll damn Tide and may they win by a larger margin than the Cowboy Classic.
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:01 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:01 PM ^
The Irish.
It's time for this insufferable SEC talk to end. Notre Dame will be silenced when we play them at home next year, but if Alabama wins, there will NEVER EVER be an end to this "ESS EEE SEE" talk. UGHHHH.
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:08 PM ^
Alabama losing won't even move the needle, one loss isn't going to change the narrative. SEC hype isn't going to end until they stop oversigning. Until then, they will have the recruiting advantage they need to stay atop the pile.
Instead it'll be how great ND is because they managed to beat an SEC team, not that the SEC team wasn't that good.
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
Nah, most of the SEC hype comes from the fact that they have won the national title for the last 4 or 5 years. With Florida getting smashed Louisville and SEC teams struggling with lower Big 10 teams this year, analysts have been saying that until the SEC loses a national championship game, they will always be considered the best conference, but the gap between the SEC and other conferences isn't as wide as previously thought.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
If you think a loss next season is going to stop the Notre Dame won a national championship talk. It may take another 20 years to end.
And if the SEC loses the game, they'll have won 6 of 7. You think that's going to stop the talk? So, when the SEC is finally beat, the best conference will be the team that dethroned them....oh, wait, Notre Dame isn't in a conference. So the other team in the national title game is from....the SEC.
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:02 PM ^
1. Ohio
2. Lil brother
3. Sec
4. Notre Dame
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:06 PM ^
Mine is similar...
1. Ohio/LilBro/SEC/ND
2. everyone else
January 3rd, 2013 at 2:12 PM ^
USC (Yes, that USC) also has a high spot on my list. This little private hell they're going through with Kiffin just makes me happy all over.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:31 PM ^
Must be a West Coast thing...
Hate Chart:
1. Ohio
2. Spoilt Children
3. ESS EEE SEE
4. Lil Bro / ND*
5. everyone else...
*ND improves to 4.5 if ole purple face departs. They were so much more lovable with Willingham and Davie...