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notre damn pouts and declines bowl game
Posted on 12/7/25 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 12/7/25 at 4:57 pm
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Posted on 12/7/25 at 4:58 pm to Don Quixote
ND needs to schedule a more difficult schedule. It’s the same thing next year. They play 2 decent teams in Miami and USC. The rest of their schedule all went sub .500 this year and is bottom tier ACC teams.
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Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:00 pm to Don Quixote
Now you see ... I have no problem, zero, with Notre Dame getting left out.
I also have no problem with them not playing a post-season exhibition game. I figure they figure they've practiced enough, and don't need the extra three weeks practice.
And make no mistake ... making a bowl is all about those extra practices if you're not in the playoff.
I do have a problem with the Big10 fining two teams half a million each for electing not to play in a post-season exhibition.
I also have no problem with them not playing a post-season exhibition game. I figure they figure they've practiced enough, and don't need the extra three weeks practice.
And make no mistake ... making a bowl is all about those extra practices if you're not in the playoff.
I do have a problem with the Big10 fining two teams half a million each for electing not to play in a post-season exhibition.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:01 pm to CalicoLSU1980
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ND needs to schedule a more difficult schedule.
They need to join a conference.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:04 pm to TheScogg
I do have a problem with the Big10 fining two teams half a million each for electing not to play in a post-season exhibition.
You got it half right, it was the Big XII . . .
You got it half right, it was the Big XII . . .
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:10 pm to CalicoLSU1980
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ND needs to schedule a more difficult schedule
They are tethered to their "independent" history because it means they only have to play 2, maybe 3 tough games a year and can schedule the bottom barrel teams the rest of the way. In a conference, they will sometimes have to play more than that. Its hard to maintain 9-11 win seasons when you have more than a couple real tests
The domers being left out of a system they tried to fleece is as good as it gets
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:10 pm to Don Quixote
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:13 pm to JacieNY
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You got it half right, it was the Big XII . . .
The Big whatever you want to call it up there in Midwest Yankee Land.
So this is getting interesting. Who here wants to "make the kids play" ? Because that's what ALL of you are talking about.
Notre Dame doesn't want to play. What are we all supposed to do ? Make them ?
I give them a small amount of props for calling out how stupid "bowl season" is now. And has been for years.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:14 pm to Don Quixote
Way to rob your kids of getting one more game in a bowl environment, your fans from getting to attend and more practice for your players.
What a bunch of figs.
What a bunch of figs.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:15 pm to SquatchDawg
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:16 pm to TheScogg
The conferences worked out deals with bowls. Those bowls agreed to payouts based on the quality of teams they should be getting. The conference owes it to the bowls to hold teams accountable. The fines are very well earned by the schools that sit out.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:17 pm to Don Quixote
Its pretty hilarious that they took their ball and went home.
Everyone laugh at them.
Everyone laugh at them.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 5:17 pm to SquatchDawg
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Way to rob your kids of getting one more game in a bowl environment, your fans from getting to attend and more practice for your players.
Rutgers also opted out.
Damn ... nobody wants to provide your New Year's Day free entertainment. We should send in the law !!!
Posted on 12/7/25 at 8:26 pm to TheScogg
The Big whatever you want to call it up there in Midwest Yankee Land.
BYU and Utah, the two Arizona schools, Tech, TCU, Houston and Baylor, UCF, West Virginia to name a few so exactly what do you consider "Midwest "Yankee Land"?
That's not really the point though.
I believe the fines levied on ISU and KSU have to do with lost revenue the conference would get for them playing but I agree with them having the right to refuse to play a bowl game.
BYU and Utah, the two Arizona schools, Tech, TCU, Houston and Baylor, UCF, West Virginia to name a few so exactly what do you consider "Midwest "Yankee Land"?
That's not really the point though.
I believe the fines levied on ISU and KSU have to do with lost revenue the conference would get for them playing but I agree with them having the right to refuse to play a bowl game.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 8:36 pm to CalicoLSU1980
Is that true that all but 2 of their opponents were sub .500? Doesn’t surprise me at all.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 8:38 pm to Don Quixote
Posted on 12/7/25 at 8:39 pm to Don Quixote
if they went to the Citrus the payout would have been 8M +
pretty expensive hissy fit
pretty expensive hissy fit
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