re: Notre Dame Athletics Director: "We want to play SEC schools"

If SEC schools got to play Army, Navy, Air Force, Purdue, and Temple every year, we'd probably be looking for a legit game or two to add to the schedule too.

I wonder if they will attempt to schedule a home game against A&M at Jerry World or a home game with LSU at the Superdome like they tried with Baylor at Jerry World to get that NBC money.

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It actually spawned from the 1969 season. LSU had maybe its best team under Cholly Mac and ND basically stole a Cotton Bowl bid from the Tigers.

Scheduled a home/home in early 70's ( ND won first game 3-0 but Tigers basically ruined Joe THeismans Heisman chances shutting him down, Tigers destroyed ND 28-8 in TS behind Bert Jones)

After that both schools realized they had some things in common, deep catholic roots being one and played 6 more regular season games in the 80's and 90's. 2 bowl matchups on top of those eight. It's a good series, would like to see a couple games every ten yrs or so

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Thanks for the info. on that.

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Pretty sure they will only play bottom tier sec schools then crow like Oregon did.

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pretty much

FWIW, I enjoyed reading this from an Alabama fan when the school in question is Tennessee

Notre Dame would benifit from playing 4-6 SEC programs a year these days. They'd actually toughen up through the grind and be playoff ready each season. Plus the big game SEC experience would be priceless for them. Sign'em up........

Auburn has tried to schedule ND a few different times. Every time ND wanted two home games to one at Jordan-Hare...or it was play them at a neutral site for our home game and then go to their house to complete the "home-and-home". Auburn told ND (it has been the same exact way with Michigan also)

UT has the body farm and a top rate anthropology dept. We train everyone from Homeland to FBI in forensics and new identification methods. Dr. Bass and his establishment of and research from the body farm revolutionized forensic anthropology.
UT has a top business school as does South Carolina.
UT has a top engineering program and Auburn's is nothing to sneeze at.
UT Law is working its way up the tiers fast.
UT is one of only 5 sun-grant universities (there's one for each region). Cornell is also one which is hardly bad company to keep. Sun-grants work on renewable energy/bio-based energy alternatives.
UT has the world's fastest super-computer (hosted by ORNL).

I could go on and on and don't mean to leave other SEC schools out (I just know less about them).

I've taught kids from the top two Ivies and they're no smarter than UT students.

While US News/Princeton Review etc. is nice to brag about and put on your uni's website to recruit students, academics wouldn't and don't rate schools the same way. The Academe is concerned with very different measures and especially concerned with departments rather than schools as a whole.

ND is a fine institution and has an excellent law school but don't delude yourself into believing that the SEC has 1 academic school. Vandy is lower than others in many areas and higher than other schools in other fields.

Where rich schools excel is in alumni networks and rich kid connections -- nepotism whether it's a frater/soror, school loyalty, or someone you went to school with accounts for the greatest strength of private schools and other 'prestige' schools.

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Theyll be coming for Vandy or Miss St.

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bring em on. I would love to play Notre Dame

I figure they want a better chance to make the playoffs.

The 80's was a long time ago. I doubt they would accept an offer to play us now.