Boeheim: Notre Dame Sank the Big East
September 21st, 2011 at 6:19 PM ^
I say we blame ND for everything.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:21 PM ^
Add Matt Millen to the list.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:40 PM ^
September 21st, 2011 at 11:50 PM ^
Matt Millen went to Penn State when Penn State was an independent. Penn State went to the light side, but Notre Dame remains independent. Therefore, Notre Dame is to blame for Matt Millen.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:35 PM ^
It doesn't really seem to work for ND fans.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:18 PM ^
Notre Dame gave me chlamydia
September 21st, 2011 at 9:40 PM ^
Some Italian bitch might as well be named Notre Dame.. Damn it..
September 21st, 2011 at 7:25 PM ^
So it was Notre Dame's fault that CRAIG JAMES KILLED FIVE HOOKERS AT SMU?
Sounds good to me...
September 21st, 2011 at 7:28 PM ^
CRAIG JAMES ALSO KILLED FIVE MORE HOOKERS AT NOTRE DAME.
New meme?
September 21st, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
A picture of a kitten with the caption:
"EACH TIME SOMEONE MENTIONS 'CRAIG JAMES', A HOOKER DIES. PLEASE, THINK OF THE HOOKERS."
September 21st, 2011 at 7:44 PM ^
So instead of CRAIG JAMES KILLED FIVE HOOKERS AT SMU, it now becomes CRAIG JAMES KILLED FIVE MILLION HOOKERS AT SMU.
Five million and one.
September 21st, 2011 at 8:50 PM ^
I am really sick and tired of all this Craig James stuff.
Everyone knows it was James Craig who killed the hookers. Maybe CRAIG JAMES was a lookout when he KILLED THOSE FIVE HOOKERS AT SMU. And no, I can't possibly disprove the silly notion that CRAIG JAMES KILLED THOSE FIVE HOOKERS AT SMU and wouldn't even want to try at this point.
But at some point we have to ask ourselves, who hasn't killed a hooker before? And so what if CRAIG JAMES KILLED THOSE FIVE HOOKERS AT SMU?
September 21st, 2011 at 9:51 PM ^
True, as a wise man once said: "Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people"
September 21st, 2011 at 9:03 PM ^
Now five million and two, if implicit mentions count.
Make that five million and three.
Crap
September 21st, 2011 at 7:25 PM ^
When you can't help but believe that you are special and thus deserve special treatment, it ends up being the case that no one can stand to be around you. Thus, it so for these schools. I hope to God we never let ND into the B1G, Michigan stood strong against it in the past as the loudest opponent of it and so shall we continue to do so.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:43 PM ^
Don't forget Canada
September 21st, 2011 at 9:57 PM ^
Is that an STD too?
September 21st, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
Canada, Michigan's itch that won't go away. Especially when you leave the Soo.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:20 PM ^
Bo was right.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:25 PM ^
No more "Blame Canada" on South Park, either. Now, it's "Blame Notre Dame."
September 21st, 2011 at 9:19 PM ^
Blame and Dame do rhyme.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:34 PM ^
if ND was allowed to vote on the football contract were the other Big East schools who are not a part of the Big East in football allowed to vote on the contract too?
September 21st, 2011 at 6:38 PM ^
I love his honesty.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:38 PM ^
To hell with Notre Dame.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:38 PM ^
I blame myself.
September 21st, 2011 at 6:49 PM ^
September 21st, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
I have been blaming Notre Dame for sunspots for years already.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
Blames Notre Dame. Wakes up with a headache? To hell with Notre Dame.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
Maybe that will inhibit ND joining the ACC? If Boeheim thinks ND is a bad conference member, maybe it will be enough to keep ND to the ACC from happening.
I just really want them to join the Big Ten so they become an average Big Ten team instead of them thinking they'd win any conference they were in.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:17 PM ^
As much as part of me would love to see ND left on the outside looking at when all is said and done with the conference re-allignment, part of me too would love to see ND in the Big Ten. It's been a while since they've gone 3-0 against UM, MSU and Purdue. Add in games against other upper echelon big ten teams and they're looking at 3-5 losses a year probably.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:30 PM ^
And most of those years MSU and Purdue were middle of the road teams. Not to mention Michigan under RIchRod had a better record against Notre Dame than we did against any Big Ten team not named Indiana.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:23 PM ^
Seriously..... Notre Dame was only 1 vote, period! It took far more then one vote to not approve a new contract.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:35 PM ^
They are the ones who let Notre Dame use them to make all their other sports viable while maintaining independence in football. They are the ones who let schools who don't play football vote on the football contract. They are also the ones who were about to lose their BCS privileges anyway because of a failure to field a single top 25 team.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:39 PM ^
Yeah, I agree with that too. But the reality for Syracuse is that they'll be the same in the ACC as they were in the Big East - completely irrelevant in football and a perrenial contender in basketball. It won't be any different, they'll just have to travel more, and there will be fewer away team fans at their games.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:45 PM ^
This ND thing does expose something in the Big East. They obviously had non-football schools determining issues directly relevant to the football schools, regardless to the disportionate impact these decisions had on said schools. Schools not playing big east football like Notre Dame, St John's, Seton Hall etc. having a say in the football TV contract is patently absurd, but apparently it happened.
At least in the ACC, all schools, even Duke and Wake Forest, like Syracuse, have skin in the game. They really are equals and are all affected by football TV contract decisions made. And yeah, that is apparently a big difference versus what is going on in the Big East.
The Big East was bound to fail due the the very divergent interests (not to mention cost structure of football versus basketball) of the all-sports schools versus those not in Big East football. In all of these re-alignment discussions, I have yet to see St John's, Marquette, Seton Hall, etc. mentioned with baited breath in anticipation of their arrival to a new conference.
September 21st, 2011 at 8:09 PM ^
I completely agree that the Big East pointing fingers at ND is ridiculous. The Big East had a choice to make--do they want Notre Dame for everything but football or do they not.
I'm not trying to be a Big Ten homer here, but I think from the Big East's perspective there were three possibilities:
1) ND does not join a conference in any sports, or it joins another conference in everything but football.
2) ND joins the Big East in everything but football.
3) ND joins a conference in everything, including football, but that conference is the Big Ten
The Big East could either take ND without football, or not have ND at all, but to complain that you didn't get an unrealistic choice is obnoxious. The Big East was good in basketball and that's probably a big part of what made it an attractive possibility, but the thing that the Big East really brought to the table was the option to join in everything except football. If they don't bring that, they don't get ND.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:02 PM ^
Why on Earth did the Big East allow non-football schools to vote on football? That makes absolutely no sense.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:43 PM ^
These guys have it all wrong. It's obviously RR's fault.
/sarcasm
September 21st, 2011 at 7:47 PM ^
Totally unrelated, but did anyone else hear the rumor that Glen Rice banged Sarah Palin back in the day. Apparently there is a tell all coming out about her and in it it says that back when she was a sports reporter she got down with Glen Rice.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:51 PM ^
Check out Mike Tyson's insightful commentary on this matter:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/16/mike-tyson-sarah-palin-met-the-wombsh…
September 21st, 2011 at 7:57 PM ^
If it wasn't for freaking Notre Dame, I wouldn't have been forced to have so much fun and yell and lose my voice on Sept. 10. Freaking jerks!!
September 21st, 2011 at 8:39 PM ^
September 21st, 2011 at 8:47 PM ^
Where do you see ND going, if anywhere?
September 21st, 2011 at 9:06 PM ^
Back to glory!
ZING!
September 21st, 2011 at 10:35 PM ^
eh, it's not like you can beat SU... or even SU with Greg Robinson.
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<br>To hell with Notre Dame.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:32 PM ^
Well, the Big East should have treated Notre Dame like the slaves and counted them as 3/5 of a member.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:46 PM ^
Big East when you deal with the Devil you've gotta watch out for the Horns.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:58 PM ^
just get together and form their own conference. Call it the Ego Conference and they can play each other 12 times while the rest of the country doesn't give a crap about them.
These two have either destroyed or prevented college football from being even better with their greedy ways.
September 22nd, 2011 at 6:54 AM ^
I really don't give s shit about the big east...However,I really hope we still play ND every year..I don't know if you could have a game between two schools with more tradition ..For me anyway ....