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Notre Dame (football only discussion)

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Beano Cook said:
Is anyone surprised the Michigan fan got confused when he had to count to two?

He'll have to count a lot higher than that when the Irish come to Ann Arbor Saturday night. Bo and I made a bet. What he doesn't know is I've made arrangements with Mary - yeah, THAT Mary - to guarantee victory. The poor sonofabtich should know better. Fuck Michigan.
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Tell Bo I said hi.......
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Good job, Michigan. Now go down to the killing fields next year and give them one last beating before the parasites run off to leach the life out of their newest "conference."
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Getting those pesky Wolverines off their schedule, now moving to get some "quality games" to replace them. One suspects that Michigan wasn't willing to play in Croke Park, Ireland.
It's good when ND loses two games early in the season. Note that this is the first post on the Irish thread since September 8. Fight on for USC!
 
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The Irish and Wolverine fans are both elated at the prospect of scheduling different teams. What neither understands is that it is difficult to schedule a quality opponent and impossible to ensure that said opponent maintains the same level of play until it comes to fruition.

The other element is that an early rivalry win has been granted enormous clout over the years even when the team being beaten turned out to be quite weak. Michigan was back and their quarterback locked up the September Heisman year after year. This year Michigan shot up the polls.

When pollsters look back on a California victory, they downgrade it if Cal turned out to be mediocre. That same revision isn't often applied to rivalry games.

Good luck generating that much excitement every year, let alone one with the luxury of driving to the road games and a rare rivalry where the fans intermingle with civility at the games and at work.
 
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jwinslow said:
The Irish and Wolverine fans are both elated at the prospect of scheduling different teams. What neither understands is that it is difficult to schedule a quality opponent and impossible to ensure that said opponent maintains the same level of play until it comes to fruition.

The other element is that an early rivalry win has been granted enormous clout over the years even when the team being beaten turned out to be quite weak. Michigan was back and their quarterback locked up the September Heisman year after year. This year Michigan shot up the polls.

When pollsters look back on a California victory, they downgrade it if Cal turned out to be mediocre. That same revision isn't often applied to rivalry games.

Good luck generating that much excitement every year, let alone one with the luxury of driving to the road games and a rare rivalry where the fans intermingle with civility at the games and at work.
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Thanks to an old post by BB73 I know Fielding Yost worked overtime to keep ND out of the Big Ten, but often had them on his schedule. When ND applied a second time, and it looked like others in the conference were willing to go along, Fielding went Tea Party on the others and then demanded that all other Big Ten teams refuse to schedule the Irish. Purdue refused to cave in, thus preserving a series that has done little to distinguish the Boilermakers.

ND got back at the Wolverines in the early 50's. The conference needed to replace Chicago and Michigan State wanted in. Michigan again worked hard to keep Little Brother out, claiming that MSU's schedule was too soft. ND stepped in and gave Sparty a long term contract. That undermined Michigan's argument and Sparty became the tenth team.

In the 70s and until he died, Bo channeled Fielding, often stating that no Big Ten team should ever schedule ND. Funny then that this long dormant series was re-started during Bo's rein as head coach and continued during his stint as AD. Bo speaketh with forked tongue, but then we knew that.

All honor and glory to BB73 for his history posts on Yost and Rockne.
 
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