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re: MSU reaches out to Notre Dame
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:44 am to wrecking crew
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:44 am to wrecking crew
Notre Dame is scared of playing a lower mid tier SEC team. Chances are they would be in a battle until the end. They want to play an upper tier team and hope their boys can rise to the occasion to keep it respectable then use that close loss as an inroad to recruiting the south east. I am sure they would prefer to play a team like Georgia, LSU, or Florida. Those states have large recruiting areas where the fence is down for recruiting. When they said SEC they really meant about 3-5 teams. The three mentioned plus the 2 in Alabama if they could meet them in Atlanta.
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Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:47 am to BlackPawnMartyr
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They want to play an upper tier team and hope their boys can rise to the occasion
Doubt it
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Posted on 5/23/14 at 3:00 am to BlackPawnMartyr
quote:what I figured with the exceptions:
Notre Dame is scared of playing a lower mid tier SEC team. Chances are they would be in a battle until the end. They want to play an upper tier team and hope their boys can rise to the occasion to keep it respectable then use that close loss as an inroad to recruiting the south east. I am sure they would prefer to play a team like Georgia, LSU, or Florida. Those states have large recruiting areas where the fence is down for recruiting. When they said SEC they really meant about 3-5 teams. The three mentioned plus the 2 in Alabama if they could meet them in Atlanta.
A) include TAMU, because of recruiting
B) ND does not want neutral site games because of recruiting (SEC seems to prefer neutral site games currently)
Maybe when when they called they said "MSU is on the phone" and the ND AD replied "we just now got Mich St off the schedule, I don't want them on it again"
Posted on 5/23/14 at 8:10 am to BlackPawnMartyr
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Notre Dame is scared of playing a lower mid tier SEC team. Chances are they would be in a battle until the end. They want to play an upper tier team and hope their boys can rise to the occasion to keep it respectable then use that close loss as an inroad to recruiting the south east. I am sure they would prefer to play a team like Georgia, LSU, or Florida. Those states have large recruiting areas where the fence is down for recruiting. When they said SEC they really meant about 3-5 teams. The three mentioned plus the 2 in Alabama if they could meet them in Atlanta.
A logical, well-conceived post on tRant. The sky if falling.
Basically, Notre Dame came out beating their chest about wanting to compete with the SEC -- and we called their bluff. We don't worry about recruiting inroads into Mississippi from a northeast team. Lately, even Bama and LSU have had a hard enough time penetrating the border of MS -- and LSU is closer to over half the population of the state than MSU/OM are.
It's a win-win for us. They either say yes and we get a showcase with IMO the most overrated program in the country with no real expectations on us. Or they say no and we can show Slive where we tried to improve our schedule -- before locking down directional Alabama and Louisiana teams for the next 10 years...
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:46 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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They want to play an upper tier team and hope their boys can rise to the occasion to keep it respectable then use that close loss as an inroad to recruiting the south east.
Exactly. The reason ND is so dead set on playing UGA is they think that it will give them an in to Georgia HS talent. With ND's new tie in with the ACC, they will have their inroads in Florida, so no need to play the Gators.
The states of Mississippi and Alabama don't produce enough talent for ND to focus there, so that would pretty much leave out Ole Miss, MSU, Auburn and Bama (unless they play in Atlanta for the Georgia exposure).
I could also see them trying to schedule something with aTm to get inroads in Texas.
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