re: MSU reaches out to Notre Dame

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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.

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what I figured with the exceptions:
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"