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Notre Dame (football only discussion)

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Woody1968;2221549; said:
Swarbrick is actually quoted as saying that USC, Navy and Stanford are more important rivalries for ND. This is true, I guess in that ND wants to have maximum exposure throughout the country, and they alrady play at least half their games in the Midwest. You can be sure that Sparty and Purdue are next to get cut from their schedule.
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One of them will have to go to make room for Air Force:wink:
 
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I'm guessing that when Notre Dame is done, they'll end up with 8 games and one (maybe 2) of the away games in neutral NFL stadiums. I can't see how a home and home with Sparty and Purdue fit into that.

I'd really love the Big Ten to just shut them out. Pretend like they don't fucking exist.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2221525; said:
It would have been nice if, just once, the Big Ten schools had the slightest bit of balls and canceled on ND first.
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Well, to be fair, one of them has an athletic department led by a guy who ran a pizza delivery company into the ground so I don't know what kind of competence one could reasonably expect.
 
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MaxBuck;2221613; said:
Sparty perhaps, but I think the Boilermakers will remain on the ND schedule for the foreseeable future. That rivalry has more legs than you'd think.
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I think Swarbrick was quoted a few weeks ago as saying that the Michigan State rivalry was important to the university, but didn't say much about the Purdue game. This was a few weeks ago though, I can't find the link at the moment. Michigan State and Notre Dame have nearly the same number of games played as the Purdue series, close to 80 meetings going back to the 1800s. The Michigan State rivlary may carry extra weight because of some of the historic previous meetings, and the fact that Notre Dame agreed to schedule Michigan State in ancient times when Michigan was trying to keep little brother out of today's B1G. It's hard to deny that the Michigan State game carries extra clout as well. It brings in a good number of viewers and has had some big finishes in the last several years.

On the other hand, I'm not sure Notre Dame is going to drop Purdue yet either, especially since they've already got a break scheduled with Michigan. With the 5 ACC games, USC, Stanford, and Navy that still leaves 4 games to fill. By all accounts the Michigan series is still in effect, this is just a scheduled break as was written into the contract.

As far as the other three protected rivlaries, those were expected not to move. USC stays for obvious reasons, but in conjunction with that rivlary and Stanford there is the added bonus that in years where Notre Dame plays USC at home the game falls in October, and Stanford becomes an away game in warm California in November. Visversa, USC away games always happen in November while Stanford games come back to South Bend in October so we still get nice weather for at least one game late in the year. Lastly, the Navy game is always to remain on the schedule because of their contribution to the university in the 40s when Notre Dame nearly had to close due to loss of student income during the war. Navy opened a facility on campus and generated revenue for the school, and ever since Notre Dame has agreed to play Navy for as long as they want the series to go as a sign of respect.
 
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ulukinatme;2221697; said:
Michigan State and Notre Dame have nearly the same number of games played as the Purdue series, close to 80 meetings going back to the 1800s.
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They've played Purdue 81 times, and every year since 1946. They've played MSU only 70 times, and played every year since 1948 except for a two-year span in 1995 and 1996.
 
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Bill Lucas;2221763; said:
Gee, I wonder why they didn't schedule the fill-in team for MSU again after that? :biggrin:
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MililaniBuckeye;2221706; said:
They've played Purdue 81 times, and every year since 1946. They've played MSU only 70 times, and played every year since 1948 except for a two-year span in 1995 and 1996.
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It's all about the history. When ND wanted in the league Yost kept them out, then demanded that all other Big 10 teams refuse to schedule them. Purdue defied Yost. ND will honor that.

When MSU wanted to replace Chicago in the Big 10 Michigan fought it, citing their weak schedule. ND sent UM a, "Fuck You, harsh memo to follow," by giving MSU a long term home and home series.

I don't know about other Michigan coaches, but Yost and Schembechler wanted them off their schedule. Now it's ND's turn to flip 'em a finger.
 
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