Unquestionably, the Fighting Irish still have the best team in NCAA Division 1. (Not the football team, of course, which collapsed against #104 (of 119) Syracuse today.) The greatest public relations team in college sports appears to be first-and-goal. Using the remarkable coast-to-coast legion of deluded but loyal fans built up with decades of marketing, a team whose only victory over a winning squad was last week last week over Navy is still pitching the possibilities of a New Years Day bowl game. Mark Blaudschun of the Boston Globe hit the nail on the head: It’s Time Notre Dame Earned It
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Waaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
Waaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!
Look Bobby, it isn’t ND’s fault that BC has awful fans and can’t fill up a High School Stadium so they invariably get invited to the http://www.nobodygivesacrap.com bowl.
But the fact that 11 National Championships and 7 Heisman trophys all done with the best graduation rate in the nation and more than a passing (ech . . . jesuit) affilition with the Catholic Church has garned them more than a few fans from coast to coast, well they ARE responsible for that.
If that means they go to bowl games they don’t belong in, so be it. Even more kudos to them for SUCKING SO BAD over most of the last 31 years and STILL being the most popular team in America.
If Fredo wants to change that double-standard, they should try beating a good team or winning a championship. . . like EVER.
It’s not personal Bobby, it’s business.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I was pleased with the outcome of today’s Syracuse game. The highlight of the pitch-black Greg Robinson era - a win in South Bend over the Irish. WOOO!
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:18 am
Mike, please at least get facts straight. Alumni Stadium fills up all the time and BC would build a bigger stadium if they were in a cow pasture like the school you didn’t go to. Instead, our campus is in what realtors call “A DESIREABLE LOCATION” where the real estate market is second only to Stanford’s Palo Alto (avg home price $1.7 vs $1.3 in Chestnut Hill). What this means is we have neighbors who have lives and jobs other than being professors or staff at the University.
Withough going back to the leather helmet era like another Catholic school I can think of … BC has beaten lots of good teams in the past 40 years from Texas in ‘76, to Stanford with John Elway in ‘80, Alabama under Bear Bryant in ‘82, Miami ‘84, through the National Championship that Tom Caughlin kept away from the self-aborbed Lou Holtz etc. Recent history with Matt Ryan, speaks for itself.
Your comment is, well, like a lot of what you post here stupid. Before you accuse me of ad hominem attacks, let me be clear. I don’t think you are stupid. But I think you say a lot of things that are false and unresearched that make late night sports talk radio callers sound intelligent; or at least more informed.
Notre Dame has its national fan base from victories in the distant past, and from all of the blatant squirrely marketing and self promotion they have done for years from covering up their French heritage with a fake Irish veneer to the way they duped smells-and-bells-and-statues Catholics into thinking their football wins had a religious dimension.
You yourself have attributed your allegiance to the school you didn’t attend to it’s Irish Catholic heritage (which of course it doesn’t have.) Like BC and Georgetown, WWII was a tough time for ND, and in the post war years they needed to rebuild from near-extinction to greatness. All three of those schools are similar, though I would argue the Jesuit tradition is superior academically, but neither BC nor Georgetown has the oversized ego and pomposity of the school you didn’t go to.
ND is a great university. They currently suck in football and should not be rewarded with a bowl game, unless it is on blue turf.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
According to your delusion above BC has a “high school” stadium that we can’t fill. Did you know that EVERY Big East school except West Virginia and USF has a lower average game attendance than BC? Did you know that Cincinatti has a smaller stadium than even Wake Forest, which has the smallest in the ACC? And did you know that it hit its sell-out capacity of only 35,000 for the first time ever this year? Where is your venom at the rinky-dink Big East?
BC has, according to you delusion above, never beat a great team, but ND’s championship hopeful ‘93 and 2002 were according to your arguments from past posts great teams. In fact, you once argued that BC derives its only satisfaction from spoiling the seasons of great teams and deserving programs.
How exactly does that work? Do these teams stop being great that once week when they play BC?
I trust you were more rational when you took the LSAT than you are when you write these thoughtless irrational diatribes?
November 25th, 2008 at 8:11 am
In an interview on Saturday, Lou Holtz argued that his insists his ‘93 team (11-1) should have been declared national champion. You know in which game the one loss occurred. Guess that team must have beat a good team?