SWBlue

September 4th, 2014 at 3:31 PM ^

I'm surprised as that is 2 losses for ND.

Wasn't expecting that from a program that stays independent so they can schedule cupcakes to pad their record. 

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Quinn10ND

September 4th, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^

2014 - Florida St, Michigan, USC, Stanford, Arizona St 2015 - Texas, Clemson, USC, Stanford, Georgia Tech 2016 - Texas, Miami, Virginia Tech, Mich. St, USC, Stanford 2017 - Georgia, Mich. St, USC, Stanford We'll do anything to stay independent and avoid the murderer's row of Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Illinois, Purdue...

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wlubd

September 4th, 2014 at 5:44 PM ^

I get the point you're making but:

MSU, PSU, OSU every year.

2014-ND, Utah

2015-@ Utah, Or St./BYU

2016-Meh

2017-Florida, Cincinnati

See, we can list things too...

Point is, neither team really schedules a bunch of cupcakes like was suggested. The part that's funny is ND saying they can't maintain the Michigan rivalry because of their ACC commitment. And then they schedule a home/home with OSU. Ignoring the timing of the announcement which is hilarious but irrelevant to my point, what is the point of ending the Michigan rivalry if just going to schedule OSU? Shit, if ND's scheduling is so tough, you could've done both.

That part doesn't make sense to me.

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Brimley

September 4th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^

ND's typical schedule: half tough, half tomato cans.  This year seems heavier on the former, I'll concede, but whooping on service academies et al helped pad past records and moving forward, I see some teams like Temple and Syracuse as well.  Oh, and thanks for cherry-picking those B1G teams to make your point.  You think ND holds up against top AND middle AND bottom B1G for 8 games without fucking up at least once or twice?

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Quinn10ND

September 5th, 2014 at 9:30 AM ^

"Half tough" would still be tougher than the usual B10 schedule. Glass house: can't talk about "tomato cans" when more than half your schedule is likes of Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Minnesota, a MAC and FCS school. Not trolling, and ND can be described a lot of ways, but "staying independent for easy schedules" or "scared to join the Big Ten" is silly, especially when their slate is more difficult than a B10 schedule. Six teams in the current Top 25 are on ND's schedule (not including Michigan, surely no "tomato can") -- does any Big Ten team have more than three or four?

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Zoltanrules

September 4th, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^

It's obvious that ND are classless liars, BUT OSU gave UM and the rest of the big 10 the middle finger by taking these games. I wish nothing but ill on both these teams.

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dkush

September 4th, 2014 at 7:11 PM ^

Slap in the fucking face. This is the most disrespectful thing Notre Dame could've done. It does make me wonder if DB actually wants to play them again though. But also I have a theory that a deal between UM and ND has been agreed to but won't be announced until well after this saturday to maintain the 'importance' of the 'last' game of this rivalry.

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Uper73

September 4th, 2014 at 8:36 PM ^

I feel like we are a spurned boyfriend who can't get over the fact that our old girlfriend has moved on, but we can't.

In the new era I think we are better served scheduling a different opponent. ND has been a non factor on the national scene with the 2012 exception for quite a while.

We have two fantastic rivalry games, we will be better off in many regards scheduling other top notch, nationally recognized programs. Of course, for us to remain prominent in the "new era " WE have to win our share of those games.


Bye bye ND, we have some great memories, but it's your loss both in going the ACC route vs BIG and leaving us.

Time for us to move on. Happily.

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MosherJordan

September 4th, 2014 at 10:12 PM ^

Given the wide spread cheating going on at ND, starting a rivalry with the "we ain't come here to play school" Ohio State University makes a lot of sense. I mean, it's Dumb and Dumber, not Dumb and Smarter.

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