• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Notre Dame Fighting Irish (official thread of bowl failures)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
BUCKYLE;1457490; said:
Eh, I hate the shit out of them. But rival, imo, is reserved for TSUN and PSU.
Click to expand...

I don't label everyone with the tag and it's certainly not the same rivalry as scUM. More of a "you're considered one of the best teams ever and I want to beat the shit out of you and prove that I'm better" kind of rivalry.
 
Upvote 0
Musified;1457340; said:
This is a humorous topic from a Notre Dame fan's perspective. I won't concern myself with some of the more obtuse criticisms, like Weis's weight (an interesting topic of discussion for such a mature message board). Anyways, it's more humorous in how time and selective memory can form rivalries. I haven't followed college football that long. I guess I really started getting into it in 04 or so. I was always kind of a Notre Dame fan because my parents and entire family always wanted me to go there. It's also kind of fun being a fan of the probably the most hated team in America. Even when we're completely irrelevant (which has been most of the years I've been following them), people expend such energy into hating us. I guess I just don't take it too seriously.

I have a bit different perspective on the whole OSU-Notre Dame thing. When I first started watching college football, those were really my favorite teams. I liked OSU because of Jim Tressel, and a lot of my friends were OSU fans as well. In 06, when the two were set to play each other in the Fiesta Bowl, I was stoked. I was rooting for Notre Dame, but if there were 1 team I'd want to lose to, it'd be OSU. However, I kind of lost a lot of respect for OSU simply because every single fan I came across before and after the game was absolutely classless about the whole thing. Obviously this was anecdotal; there's no way to quantitatively measure which fans were bigger assholes, but it was enough to make sure I never rooted for OSU again.

Over the last few years, OSU has really just cemented this reputation in my eyes. I'll preface this by saying that I'm away ND football has sucked in the last few years. I'm not making any excuses and I have no problem admitting it. We have a lot of work to do, and that may or may not start with firing Weis. However, every time an OSU fan realizes that I am an ND fan, I get automatic lip about the state of our program, Weis's weight, and that 06 Fiesta Bowl game. It's all kind of sad really, considering OSU's notorious trouble in other bowl games. As an SEC fan (Tennessee for everyone that wants to jump on that), I get an extra little chuckle out of that as well.
Click to expand...

xcrunner said:
1) We give you [censored] about the state of your program because, in general, ND fans never shut the [censored] up about how amazing the state of their program is.

2) Football coaches shouldn't be fat. Coaches should be athletic. It's a terrible example to the players when the coach is a goddamn fatass. Especially when that coach then tries to get surgery to make himself less fat instead of, you know, riding a bike and not eating 500 cheeseburgers a day.

3) We give you [censored] for the '06 Fiesta Bowl because your coach was a pompous ass before that game and so were most of your fans. Your coach dissed Tressel and his accomplishments (much more impressive than Chuck's) and then got the [censored] kicked out of him, all 300 pounds of [censored] that goes through his system daily. And most of you guys (not you necessarily) were too busy talking about how amazing your loss against USC was, and how much of a genius Weis was, to realize who you guys were playing.

4) Our "notorious trouble in bowl games"? Our trouble in bowl games consists of losing our last 3. 2 of those games were against the national champion, and the other was against a team who should have been in that game if not for voters' idiocy. Our "trouble" does not even come close to comparing with yours. Your best bowl win in the past, what, 10, 15 years is against Hawaii. Ours is the national championship and a few other BCS bowls, including against your own team.

So sorry for the rude post, but your coach is a fat, obnoxious, arrogant [censored].
Click to expand...


I can't agree less with something that xcrunner wrote. So, on behalf of everyone at BP, I'd like to apologize.

Notre Dame coaches and players deserve recognition when recognition is due.

Everybody knows that Charlie's arse weighs more than 300 pounds and Tressel totally beat his arse. So, I'm sorry if we left out more than a couple of super size meals there and failed to recognize him accordingly.
 
Upvote 0
BuckeyeNation27;1457751; said:
penn state is not our rival.
Click to expand...
07-minister.jpg
 
Upvote 0
Musified;1457340; said:
This is a humorous topic from a Notre Dame fan's perspective. I won't concern myself with some of the more obtuse criticisms, like Weis's weight (an interesting topic of discussion for such a mature message board). Anyways, it's more humorous in how time and selective memory can form rivalries. I haven't followed college football that long. I guess I really started getting into it in 04 or so. I was always kind of a Notre Dame fan because my parents and entire family always wanted me to go there. It's also kind of fun being a fan of the probably the most hated team in America. Even when we're completely irrelevant (which has been most of the years I've been following them), people expend such energy into hating us. I guess I just don't take it too seriously.

I have a bit different perspective on the whole OSU-Notre Dame thing. When I first started watching college football, those were really my favorite teams. I liked OSU because of Jim Tressel, and a lot of my friends were OSU fans as well. In 06, when the two were set to play each other in the Fiesta Bowl, I was stoked. I was rooting for Notre Dame, but if there were 1 team I'd want to lose to, it'd be OSU. However, I kind of lost a lot of respect for OSU simply because every single fan I came across before and after the game was absolutely classless about the whole thing. Obviously this was anecdotal; there's no way to quantitatively measure which fans were bigger assholes, but it was enough to make sure I never rooted for OSU again.

Over the last few years, OSU has really just cemented this reputation in my eyes. I'll preface this by saying that I'm away ND football has sucked in the last few years. I'm not making any excuses and I have no problem admitting it. We have a lot of work to do, and that may or may not start with firing Weis. However, every time an OSU fan realizes that I am an ND fan, I get automatic lip about the state of our program, Weis's weight, and that 06 Fiesta Bowl game. It's all kind of sad really, considering OSU's notorious trouble in other bowl games. As an SEC fan (Tennessee for everyone that wants to jump on that), I get an extra little chuckle out of that as well.
Click to expand...

You know the funniest thing is people like this don't realize they are 99.9% of the problem. It isn't the ND alumni, I've know many, most of whom are knowledgeable, affable chaps that understand the storied tradition of, oh, I don't know, their own team, and can name, oh, I don't know, 5 players on the current team. It's the people who use "we" to describe ND or whatever school because "my parents always wanted me to go there" or whatever dumbfuck reason that are always firing their mouth off and talking a lot of crap until their teams lose a few games (or in this case when Charlie 200poundturd is 0-0 and plays 9 games against Siena this year), then mysteriously they disappear after the annual 41-0 drubbing by USC until the next time they feel the need to "remind" everyone how much they are "hated because they're awesome". No, you're hated for the same reasons that Cryami and Florida State fans are now...you were good once, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, but now, you wait until there's a 1 in the loss column (usually week 2 for ND these days) and then disappear or root for someone else in the title hunt, or my personal favorite, bring up the academic reputation argument, then come back next year to talk the same lame-assed smack all over again.

Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
 
Upvote 0
Bucklion;1457773; said:
... No, you're hated for the same reasons that Cryami and Florida State fans are now...you were good once..., ...bring up the academic reputation argument,...
Click to expand...

I have to defend Florida State fans. They are smart enough to not bring up the academic reputation argument.







Sorry Bill... BL just tossed that softball up there and I couldn't resist.
 
Upvote 0
Heat point guard to work out with Irish corners?

Views 1005 Comments 7

Miami Heat team president Pat Riley told his reserve point guard, Chris Quinn, to spend the offseason working out with Notre Dame's cornerbacks. Never mind Quinn is a former Notre Dame basketball player. The exchange was mentioned in columnist Dave Hyde's blog on the Sun-Sentinel Web site. Riley -- and we're not sure if he's being sarcastic or not -- said it'd help him with his man-to-man defense. In many ways, it makes sense. Cornerbacks need good closing speed and in some ways lateral and cross-over footwork. They also need to be able to read receivers, much like defenders need to read opponents by watching their hips. Whether Quinn does it or not, who knows? But it'd be interesting to see, that's for sure.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Click to expand...

Maybe the Bucks should contact Scoonie Penn or Jamar Butler for some help.
 
Upvote 0
Miami Heat team president Pat Riley told his reserve point guard, Chris Quinn, to spend the offseason working out with Notre Dame's cornerbacks.
Click to expand...

Not to argue with Riley but how in the hell does letting a guy get 10 yards behind you and then chasing him for another 40 yards make you a better basketball player?
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top