NDNation: it's unfair that Michigan didn't travel as much as us

Michigan 10-2 Pitt 5-6 Purdue 6-6 Wake Forest 6-6 Stanford 11-1 Michigan road games Northwestern 6-6 MSU 10-2 Iowa 7-5 Illinois 6-6 Iowa, MSU, and Illinois are all difficult places to play. While Michigan was the only hostile environment for ND.

It would appear the psyche of NDNation, subjected to 20 years of mediocrity, is lashing out at any absurd piece of evidence it can concoct to justify their team's ongoing failure to launch/wake up the echoes/return to glory.

The guys covering the game last night pointed out that Andrew Luck is just the third QB to beat ND three times in a row (Matt Leinart and Purdue's Mike Phipps were the others).  Denard has a chance to become number four just a few months from now.

NDNation is turning (turned?) into RCMB. First the "ND is over because they let black kids play football" post that showed up weeks ago, and now this. You'd think divine intervention would render these "issues" moot.

They went 3-2 on the road... Losing to Stanford and Team 132 UTL. Their 3 wins were against the powerful Wake Forest (6-6), the beastly Purdue Boilermakers (6-6), and the unstoppable Pitt Panthers (5-6 with a game against Syracuse next weekend). They can complain all they want. They lost 2 games on the road and 2 games at home against USF and USC. USF went 5-6 with one game to go against WV. Join the B1G and you would have less to complain about and more of we need to find ourselves a coach.

They lost to South Florida at home. They lost to USC, at home. They took a freaking bus to lose to Michigan, and it wasn't the plane ride that cost them the win against Stanford, it's that Stanford has a much, much better football team. Notre Dame is the most delusional fanbase on earth. JOIN A DAMN CONFERENCE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TRAVEL SO MUCH. What do they expect: an NCAA rule that every team in the country go cross-country twice a season because Notre Dame has---, er um, CHOOSES to?

And as for the "they book all their non-conference games at home against non-BCS patsies" argument... you mean aside from Notre Dame, right? And Alabama? And UConn that we're going to in 2013, right? Oh, and Air Force, too, because lord knows how much ND values beating up on service academies.

so whats their suggestion? ND get a BCS with 4 losses..ANOTHER "Special" ND Rule..as long as they are not in a conference they are irrelevant in college football...you made YOUR bed now Lie in it..

Calling for the NCAA to force teams to play more road games. ND only played 3 away games last season, 7 at home and 2 neutral sites. In 2009 they played 8 home games and 4 on the road. But this year they only played 6 home games and blame us and the NCAA.

They're playing in Ireland!?!

Idiots.... they're going to Ireland next fall... should we do that too?  Then @ USC. This is a ridiculous "unfairness" argument, seeing that they're doing it to themselves.

I just looked at their schedule next year in fact, and they're in for a world of hurt:

 

2012

9-1 Navy @Dublin, Ireland
9-8 Purdue
9-15 @ Michigan State 
9-22 Michigan 
10-6 vs. Miami FL @Chicago, IL- Soldier Field
10-13 Stanford 
10-20 Brigham Young
10-27 @ Oklahoma 
11-3 Pittsburgh
11-10 @ Boston College 
11-17 Wake Forest 
11-24 @ Southern California

that UM can't play ND's schedule.

In 2010 ND played 3 road games, and 7 home games and played Army and Navy at neutral venues. They scheduled such stellar competition as Tulsa, Western Michigan, and Utah at home and lost to Tulsa. Pot meet kettle.

They pick their entire schedule, have their own television contract, and don't have to give any of their revenue back to a conference. They have to find something to complain about because they're not very good, but the only things to complain about are nonsense like this. 

Just admit that your football team isn't good already. Jesus.

What a ludicrous argument.  ND doesn't play in a conference.  They get 100% control of who they play and where.  Michigan doesn't have the same luxury outside of 4 non-conference games.  Figure it out Domer fan. 

lolwut?

I was gonna say THEN JOIN A FUCKING CONFERENCE YOU FUCKING DICKFUCKS but I see the idea has been posted already.  How surprising.  Leave it to the most self-centered, delusional, world-revolves-around-the-sun-that-shines-out-of-our-ass fanbase to come up with a problem created by their insistence on not playing ball with everyone else and then expect that the world should accommodate that and bend for them instead of the other way around.

It's not fair that we have to play with these heavy gold helmets while mich gets the light winged ones....

But apparently bucknuts think the refs had money on us.

http://ohiostate.247sports.com/Board/120/Denards-face-shoveling-5800913/1

I lol'd

Choke on a bag of Dicks.

 

That is all.

that's a silly argument and really just sour grapes.  In fact, since the schedule was expanded to 12 regular season games, the following teams (in addition to Michigan) have played 8 home games at some point:

• michigan state
• nebraska
• alabama
• va tech
• lsu
• penn st
• ohio st
• florida st
• kansas st

Note: Not a comprehensive list.  I don't feel like going through EVERY FBS school schedule!  Kinda-sorta are teams like Oklahoma/Texas and Florida/Georgia, who each regularly have 7 true home games and the annual neutral site games in Dallas and Jacksonville, respectively.  

So it's not like Michigan is pulling some unheard of thing that flies in the face of fair play.  It's a common occurrence amongst national powers.  That said, I really wouldn't mind getting back to the days of the intersectional home-and-home matchups like we had with Colorado, Syracuse, Washington, UCLA, Oregon, etc (at least, those are some of the ones I can recall since I became a fan in the early-mid 90s).  Let's go play a Pac12 team like UCLA, Cal, or ASU.  Let's do it against an ACC team like Maryland. 

And, most importantly, up to the date all-time winning percentage standings:

 

UM: .73392

ND: .73157

 

That is all.

ND went for a ride on the roflcopter.

ND has been irrelevent for 20 years.  Even NBC is pushing their games to the VS channel.

 

 

OHIO!

Terrible web site design. It just looks like a cluster fuck.

who are always looking for excuses why their pathetic team keeps under-achieving. Either way, I could care less.  We'll beat them in South Bend.  We'll beat them in Ann Arbor.  Discussion over.

I remember my 1st message board.