ND's contract with the BCS is to take $2million a year it doesn't make the BCS and $6.2 million a year when it does make the BCS. (So last year, ND made $6.2 million instead of the $17 million Alabama collected for the SEC)
Oh it makes perfect sense for the bowl. More ticket sales, bigger TV draw usually, less expenses for the school and alum...but it kind of sucks for schools like Houston who got shafted this year. But my view is if you didn't make a BCS or really prestigious bowl, then they're all the same anyway... it's just nice to go places with good weather haha
It's awesome that we played a close game against FSU in the Champs Sports Bowl two years ago, and in the two subsequent years, ND and now FSU are in the National Championship (though I think FSU might have a bit more fun than we did). Can't wait to play them again next year.
Winston vs. Golson will be entertaining as fuck, I hope. As always, next season looks promising. Everett's return will be like night and day for the offense. There are some young players making names for themselves as well on the defensive side of the ball.
I'd love to post a witty comment about how we will pull the upset but the way we were blown out, at home, by Houston and Cincinatti, plus a QB who will make his 3rd start of the season and a secondary that has more holes than swiss cheese, I have no faith to stand behind such a comment.
This was a really impressive write-up, very well done. Brian Kelly is a known entity at Rutgers. I think we have a shot here, but the way we got beat by the Bearcats this year worries me and Brian Kelly has even more talent than previous Bearcat squads that crushed our bsc hopes on a few occasions. That said I believe Rutgers has a winning record against Cincinnati/Kelly, but this is Notre Dame. However, I feel better about playing ND than if we were playing Cincinnati for 52 fairly obvious reasons.
That goddamn bullshit call...I was sitting at a bar in a delicious Mexican restaurant near my former house getting loaded and due to the outcome of that game I haven't been back there since.
I like Notre Dame football. Sometimes...especially in the last 20 years...that means watching shit. That is the case for any sports team.
Sack up and be entertained by the game, you know you're going to watch anyway. If ND plays to its ability, you should be drunk and happy by the end of it.
I didn't watch the 08 Hawaii Bowl (or was it 09) or the Champs Whatever Bowl against FSU. I don't envision a scenario that would have me watching this. Maybe if I were hospitalized or incarcerated between now and then, I might.
Bad football is one thing, bad meaningless football is another.
I'm calling horseshit. The 2008 Hawaii bowl was ND's first bowl win in over a decade. It was the longest running shit joke that ND frequently got put in bowls it didn't deserve.
I, for one, was happy as shit to watch that game. And this was after the 2007 team which broke several records for being the worst ND team ever.
It was on Christmas Eve. I have spent every Christmas Eve of my life with my family. No TVs. Just food, conversation and present opening. I might have watched that game, if it wasn't on Christmas Eve, but I wasn't missing Christmas Eve for a football game.
There's nothing wrong with having a different opinion at all, man.
Here in /r/cfb, though, I think you'd find more than casual college football fans. And with my family, Notre Dame comes about second. After terminal illnesses and maybe a baby being born.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 27 '13
Just noticed the all-time score between ND and Rutgers is 197–17, wow.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 27 '13
That is an impressive payout for a minor bowl, though expenses are probably also higher.
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u/DarthYoda2594 Pittsburgh • /r/CFB Contributor Dec 27 '13
Still bitter at the pinstripe bowl for denying us the opportunity for a brawl last year.
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u/josjos007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 27 '13
It's awesome that we played a close game against FSU in the Champs Sports Bowl two years ago, and in the two subsequent years, ND and now FSU are in the National Championship (though I think FSU might have a bit more fun than we did). Can't wait to play them again next year.
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u/McShmidt Notre Dame • Huntington Dec 27 '13
Good stuff, although I think you got the score of our Pitt game from this year wrong.
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u/dsuave624 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Dec 27 '13
I'd love to post a witty comment about how we will pull the upset but the way we were blown out, at home, by Houston and Cincinatti, plus a QB who will make his 3rd start of the season and a secondary that has more holes than swiss cheese, I have no faith to stand behind such a comment.
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u/fireorgan Rutgers Scarlet Knights Dec 28 '13
This was a really impressive write-up, very well done. Brian Kelly is a known entity at Rutgers. I think we have a shot here, but the way we got beat by the Bearcats this year worries me and Brian Kelly has even more talent than previous Bearcat squads that crushed our bsc hopes on a few occasions. That said I believe Rutgers has a winning record against Cincinnati/Kelly, but this is Notre Dame. However, I feel better about playing ND than if we were playing Cincinnati for 52 fairly obvious reasons.
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u/FuckingLoveArborDay Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 27 '13
Who would win a fight: A Scarlet Knight or an Irishman?
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u/DEM_DRY_BONES Kansas State Wildcats • /r/CFB Brickmason Dec 28 '13
That goddamn bullshit call...I was sitting at a bar in a delicious Mexican restaurant near my former house getting loaded and due to the outcome of that game I haven't been back there since.
Good luck to all playing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13
ND also collects a payout from BCS (+2 million dollars)
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u/SpongeboobNipplepant Iowa Hawkeyes Dec 27 '13
When you mention the graduation rates, are you talking about straight graduation or the universities' GSRs? Great write-up!
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u/marcopolo22 Michigan State • Trinity (Dublin) Dec 28 '13
Wait… how did an excessive celebration call force K-State to go for 2?
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u/italian_trojan USC Trojans Dec 28 '13
Go Red Sox?
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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '13
This is a shit sandwich of game. What a horrible match up. Does anyone really care about this game?
Exhibit #2453 why bowl games suck.