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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
Looks like ND broke the longest FB streak and the longest basketball streak!
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Was that news to you that ND stopped the 47-game streak? Some ND football fan you are!!

The hell with waking up the echoes, Chief, just wake up!
 
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ND plays a crap load of big games during a typical year. However, it's hard to rag on the Buckeye's schedule. As I'm sure you're aware, the Bucks typically only schedule 3 non-conference games, and 1 is always an Ohio School (an agreement to keep money in-state). That leaves 2 games to schedule from the rest of the 100+ Div 1 teams. Recently (last 12 years or so), OSU has played Washington (3?), ND (2), UCLA (2), Arizona (2), Miami (1), Washington St. (1), WVU (1), Texas Tech (1), and BC (1) in pre-conference games. That's 14 big (maybe not huge) name schools out of 24 to 28 possible games. Compare that list to the list of cupcakes that Minnesota, Nebraska, or Colorado put together. It's a freaking joke!
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
MILI- Past schedules prove OSU is the one that fears playing the big names! Not ND.....

BILL- Never thought about both at the same time I guess.
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Sorry Chief, but we do play a Big Ten schedule every year too. Given your results against Purdue, Michigan, and Michigan State the past 10 years, where do you think you would have finished in the Big 10 over the past decade exactly? Most of those games would have been (or were) tough for the old Irish, I'm afraid to say. We play a tough conference schedule and at least one big-name non-conference team per season. It's hard to find other top-tier programs (there are a few of course) who can make that claim year-in and year-out.
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
Seeing as other than OSU, Michigan is the top team and ND went 4-2 against them the last 10 years while ND sucked.

Actually better than OSU!
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True. But if you're arguing that ND was better the tOSU during that span, I need to let you know that the transitive property doesn't work in football.
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
No, just saying that ND was not as bad as many think and OSU was not as good as you all think.
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You all? Who are you referring to? I thought we were addressing the strength of schedule.

Although I would say that ND could make a solid argument at having a stronger schedule than the Bucks, it wouldn't be by very much. As a matter of fact, I'd be interested in seeing the last ten years strengths of schedules.

Your beating Michigan post made it sound as if you were implying ND was better than the Bucks over the past 10 years. If that's not the case, then fine. However, if it is the case, I think there's plenty of ammo that we could fire back with. Granted you have the Michigan record, but how about overall record against Big10, Top10, head-to-head (had to throw that in there), bowl games, and last but not least......NC games. :biggrin:
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
MILI- Past schedules prove OSU is the one that fears playing the big names! Not ND.....
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Excuse me?! Explain just how we "fear" playing the big names when we offered to play another home/away with Notre Dame in the 2000/2001 season after pounding them in 1995 and 1996, but ND "declined". Also, since we're in a major conference, we don't have the luxury of schedule flexibility like ND does, so we have to resort to cherry-picking teams from those that are available early in the season. Still, we've done a decent job at getting solid OOC opponents:

1985 - Colorado
1986 - Alabama, Washington, Colorado
1987 - West Virginia, LSU
1988 - Syracuse, LSU
1989 - Southern California, Boston College
1990 - Texas Tech, Boston College, Southern California
1991 - Arizona, Washington State
1992 - Syracuse
1993 - Washington
1994 - Washington
1995 - Boston College, Washington, Notre Dame
1996 - Notre Dame
1997 - Arizona, Missouri
1998 - West Virginia, Missouri
1999 - Miami, UCLA
2000 - Arizona
2001 - UCLA
2002 - Texas Tech, Washington St.
2003 - Washington

We went an impressive 25-7-1 in those games.

And over the upcoming decade, we have home/away series scheduled with Texas, Southern California, Miami, Syracuse, and Virginia Tech, and a single game at Washington State.

We fear no one.
 
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And for the record, I didn't realize that either team was claiming that the other was "afraid" of playing the other. What is this based on?

MililaniBuckeye said:
Explain just how we "fear" playing the big names when we offered to play another home/away with Notre Dame in the 2000/2001 season.
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I guess Mili answered my question....
 
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Well for one Mili answered the question by saying that OSU played a decent OOC schedule. Going forowrd they seemed to have made an effort to play the big boys but NOT in the past.....

Mili - I dont see that many big names on that list and please if OSU wanted to they could have played more. SEE ABOVE THEY FOUND AWAY NOW,DIDNT THEY?

Yertle - OSU won one (1) NC in the last 30 years lets not get carried away.
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
Seeing as other than OSU, Michigan is the top team and ND went 4-2 against them the last 10 years while ND sucked.

Actually better than OSU!
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Dude, YOU set the timeframe at 10 years, not me.

Again, we should take a look at strength of schedule numbers before we assume that tOSU didn't play the big boys.
 
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