ND to play ASU in football series
So the "chickens" drop the Michigan series supposed to allow for their ACC five game commitment. Now they line up this inferior pair of games against a much lesser ASU team. What punks - Hoke couldn't have been more dead on with his discription of these dopes.
I agree. They ARE turkeys!
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A couple facts about ND and there recent scheduling issues:
1) They backed out of the Michigan series. End of story.
2) Originally, ND was only requesting to cancel the away game part of the ASU series. That's pretty douchey to say, "we'll play you at our home but not at yours" after a contract has been signed. Note: they have since said they will cancel the game at ND (probably to try and save some face on this issue)
3) ND has 14 season games scheduled for 2014. You are only allowed to play a 12 game season with additional chances at a conference championship game and a bowl game. It's pretty simple arithmetic.
Pretty sad state of affairs over in South Bend.
I'm glad we're done with ND. Wish we could bail on the 2014 game.
ASU finished 5-6 in 1999 and 6-6 in 1999.
Both were wins for the Irish.
Screw ND....they are a good academic school to be sure, but they are not the type of university that fits the B1G footprint for research. I believe the manner in which Brandon received notice was done with malice.
I also believe that ND should NOT play in BCS or NC games until they join a conference with playoffs and require them to run the same gauntlet as everyone else of consequence. To do otherwise is absurd.
sun devil rivalry
I really don't think the ND decision was a result of the choice b/t Michigan and Purdue/MSU.
I think it was a choice b/t Michigan and Tex/Bama/OU/FSU (a rotating big time team). They realized that even a pseudo-quasi conference committment-ish substance won't allow for them to play as national a schedule as they'd like.
Now, I think that pretty fucking short sighted considering that the ND-M game gets more national attention than many of their committments (basically all of them but USC), but w/e you can't trust dem catholics. #gordongee
By that fact only are they similar.
Over lesson is young padwahn.
As an ASU alumnus, this makes me happy. And for those of you saying because of this they should still play UM, they are still playing UM. You can not fault them for adding a miediocre FBS team to the schedule which are better than WMU, CMU, EMU, and all those other small schools we play.