Kevin White continues to dumb down future schedules

[SoCalDomer]

Originally Posted by GoldenDomer21

LovemyIrish, I'm beginning to think you don't know anything about NCAA football, much less Notre Dame football.

Oh boy.

Ok, it's kinda bad form to start out an argument that way.

Second, you've been around all of a few weeks, when LMI has been on the board for over two years now putting up alot of info regarding college football and other topics. He and I don't agree on everything (college FB or other topics) but you can't say he knows nothing.

[GoldenDomer21]

My apologies. I'm passionate, to say the least.

Even though I've been around for only a few weeks, doesn't mean my opinion doesn't matter or I don't know what I am talking about. Maybe if I was 10 or 12 you could make that argument.

LMI, Nothing personal meant.

It's hard to get my points across on paper/e-paper. But when you have spent as much time on ND campus as I have. It's hard not to be passionate about Notre Dame and what they mean far beyond football.

[SoCalDomer]

No, that's true, you being here a short time does not mean your opinion on college football is wrong. I am staying away from further scheduling discussions, so I have no opinion about your scheduling opinion.

My point was concluding that LMI knows nothing is not based on seeing all his posts here, since you've been here such a short time. That was it.

[NDOM]

Cant we all just get along????? My opinion is the only one that matters anyway.

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Originally Posted by GoldenDomer21

LovemyIrish, I'm beginning to think you don't know anything about NCAA football, much less Notre Dame football. You're just another one of those people who is happy to follow the rest of the college football crowd.

I am extraordiarily familiar with how football works. Very few folks who admin ND boards are doing it just for kicks.

Everyone else is scheduling more easies so they have "better" chances at the NC and your on the bandwagon, thinking it's a great idea for ND to do it also.

No. YOU ARE THE ONE SUGGESTING WE CHANGE OUR SCHEDULING. I am the one pushing for the status quo of the last 70+ years.

And how badly can you possibly misconstrue my thoughts? What you're saying is that by scheduling us a top 10 SOS we schedule ourselves out of contention. So, YOU, think we don't have the ability to hang with the best. Thus, YOU'RE the one who thinks lower of our beloved team.

I am firmly aware of what a brutal schedule does to a team's chances of winning the Title. Having a Top10 schedule is near suicide.

I'm talking about all time, from this point forth the SOS should be top 10. Period. Classically, though the decades, this was so, and should continue to be the case.

THIS IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN THE CASE. Wake up!!! ND has always worked to have a good schedule and solid schedule...but NOT a Top10 schedule. The only time that was actively pursued was under the Wadsworth folks. That did not go well.

You may disagree, but I think that by having a legendary program we have no other choice than to continue by scheduling the best.

We became legendary without doing it. I don't see why we need to suddenly change now.

People like to Argue that a hard SOS schedules you out of contention for the national title. Wrong! It forces your team to play better.

All teams strive to be the best. The harder your schedule the worse off you will do. I am not saying we need patsies, I am saying that we don't need to change 120 years of Notre Dame football and start scheduling the toughest schedule around.

Yes, it IS harder to get there. Yes, the road will not be easy. Yes, we won't make it there every year. Yes, it may be one in 5, 10, or even 15 years. But, you know what? It has been 20 years since our last NC. So, 1 NC every ten years isn't bad. And, having to play hard for it only makes ND look better than all the rest.

1 every 10? Are you smoking crack? Seriously...

We NEVER one them 1 in 10 years...and now you want to make the schedule harder than when we won one every 11 years.

So under your math, if we take an already hard schedule which LIMITS US to one title every eleven years and then we make the schedule HARDER we will win more games?

Seriously, I don't know what you are smoking but it must be good shit.

Maybe this gives you a little more enlightenment about where I am coming from and where I would like to see them go.

I agree you are a dreamer. But in no way do I or most ND fans think we need to piss on 120 years of ND football tradition and start scheduling Top10 schedules every year so we will schedule ourselves out of ever winning a title...or maybe only winning one every 30 years.

[GoldenDomer21]

You didn't present one intelligent argument. Basically all you did was take snippets of paragraphs and say, "No, your wrong!"

I'm not conceding the point, I'm moving the discussion to Jason Pham's scheduling forum.

[Irish52]

To be recognized as the best, you must play the best. Even though Fl. won the national championship, the only recognition they got in the South was from Florida students and alumni..everyone else thought their patsy schedule the first few games led to Tebow winning the Heisman and their championship. WE SHOULD PLAY THE BEST TEAMS IN THE NATION..WIN OR LOSE.