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Notre Dame Joe said:
Pope Leo is from Big ten country.
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The original comment was a joke, so with the acknowledgement that anything beyond it being a joke is taking it way too seriously...

Southside of Chicago Catholics are a traditional ND stronghold, but he doesn't have any specific ties to ND. He'd be more likely to issue a bull for Villanova basketball than ND.
 
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Yeah, I think the best approach would have been to get up there and meat out for 45 minutes. Rant and rave, make empty threats and promises, come off like a complete douchebag. Maybe do a MacAfee and take your shirt off because that resonates with swing voters and makes the ND fan in Nevada want to have a beer with you.

This is the face of the athletic program. We have enough carnival barking ass clowns running more important institutions of our lives. Go out and say what you have to say, be boring and do the real business behind the curtain.

My hope is behind closed doors they're all going to the mattresses, and it sounds like that's exactly what Marcus is doing. The guys coming back to this team next year are going to be hungry. The coaches will be ready. They don't need to go out and make slap dicks of themselves in public at a press conference.
 
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TNUtoNotreDame said:
I want heads on a spike and a declaration of Holy war against the ACC and ESPN.
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Georgia Tech fan here and my first post on this board. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Notre Dame on a fine season, and to say I have great respect for your storied history in college football. But what I can't understand is why on earth your resentment should be directed toward the ACC, which understandably stood up for its own. It seems to me it should be directed toward the crafters of the playoff, whose criteria led to the inclusion of Tulane and James Madison. Those two should be replaced by the Irish and BYU, if we're talking about the 12 best teams in the country.

Also, I would like to express my dismay that the Irish declined an invitation to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl against BYU, which would have been quite fitting and would have generated a great deal of interest nationwide as a game between two deserving teams left out of the playoff. However, I am glad my Yellow Jackets are playing against BYU instead, though it will be a difficult game for us to win.

That you are not a full member of the ACC in football is what cost you a trip to the CFP, because few will disagree that N.D. would have waxed either one of the participants in the ACC title game. And, as you all know, a win over Miami would have gotten you in easily. To sum up, it's clear to me that two groups of people are responsible for Notre Dame missing the playoffs, as follows:

The committee that crafted the playoff criteria, and
The Notre Dame football team.

It is not the fault of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
 
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bobongo said:
Georgia Tech fan here and my first post on this board. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Notre Dame on a fine season, and to say I have great respect for your storied history in college football. But what I can't understand is why on earth your resentment should be directed toward the ACC, which understandably stood up for its own. It seems to me it should be directed toward the crafters of the playoff, whose criteria led to the inclusion of Tulane and James Madison. Those two should be replaced by the Irish and BYU, if we're talking about the 12 best teams in the country.

Also, I would like to express my dismay that the Irish declined an invitation to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl against BYU, which would have been quite fitting and would have generated a great deal of interest nationwide as a game between two deserving teams left out of the playoff. However, I am glad my Yellow Jackets are playing against BYU instead, though it will be a difficult game for us to win.

That you are not a full member of the ACC in football is what cost you a trip to the CFP, because few will disagree that N.D. would have waxed either one of the participants in the ACC title game. And, as you all know, a win over Miami would have gotten you in easily. To sum up, it's clear to me that two groups of people are responsible for Notre Dame missing the playoffs, as follows:

The committee that crafted the playoff criteria, and
The Notre Dame football team.

It is not the fault of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Oh my god. These people are going to keep coming out of the woodwork, aren’t they? On top of banning them all, can we put a moratorium on new members for like a week or something??
 
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bobongo said:
To sum up, it's clear to me that two groups of people are responsible for Notre Dame missing the playoffs, as follows:

The committee that crafted the playoff criteria, and
The Notre Dame football team.

It is not the fault of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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In most ways, I do not disagree with the above. That said, if you are ND administration, how would you view your partnership with the ACC moving forward?
 
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tussin said:
In most ways, I do not disagree with the above. That said, if you are ND administration, how would you view your partnership with the ACC moving forward?
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I don't feel qualified to answer that. Joining the conference might be the best move, but money-wise, it might not. There are many things involved with that. That's for the Notre Dame administration to decide and I can't give you a good answer to that question. But I don't think any ill-placed resentment against the conference should figure into it.
 
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bobongo said:
Georgia Tech fan here and my first post on this board. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Notre Dame on a fine season, and to say I have great respect for your storied history in college football. But what I can't understand is why on earth your resentment should be directed toward the ACC, which understandably stood up for its own. It seems to me it should be directed toward the crafters of the playoff, whose criteria led to the inclusion of Tulane and James Madison. Those two should be replaced by the Irish and BYU, if we're talking about the 12 best teams in the country.

Also, I would like to express my dismay that the Irish declined an invitation to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl against BYU, which would have been quite fitting and would have generated a great deal of interest nationwide as a game between two deserving teams left out of the playoff. However, I am glad my Yellow Jackets are playing against BYU instead, though it will be a difficult game for us to win.

That you are not a full member of the ACC in football is what cost you a trip to the CFP, because few will disagree that N.D. would have waxed either one of the participants in the ACC title game. And, as you all know, a win over Miami would have gotten you in easily. To sum up, it's clear to me that two groups of people are responsible for Notre Dame missing the playoffs, as follows:

The committee that crafted the playoff criteria, and
The Notre Dame football team.

It is not the fault of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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- The ACCs pure incompetence is what led to the situation with regards to tiebreakers, as you know as a Georgia Tech fan

- Publicly and I’m sure privately lobbying against a school that generates you money seems dumb. Example, our game versus you was moved to the Benz to generate you money, you’re welcome. They could have spent all that time and energy towards Alabama. You will also notice ND did not once publicly bash a single other school in their pursuit of the CFP in either of the last two years. To act like it is assumed that a conference would need to bash another team to get what they want is a poor assumption.

- Duke beating UVA likely triggered a back door deal to get Miami in the playoff as an ACC representative. So as ND fans we feel two things transpired, not just one. Alabama got assured a spot, and the ACC got assure a spot. Either or both at the expense of ND.

- The ACC is tied directly to ESPN. ESPN contrived this whole thing. Fuck ESPN.
 
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bobongo said:
Georgia Tech fan here and my first post on this board. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Notre Dame on a fine season, and to say I have great respect for your storied history in college football. But what I can't understand is why on earth your resentment should be directed toward the ACC, which understandably stood up for its own. It seems to me it should be directed toward the crafters of the playoff, whose criteria led to the inclusion of Tulane and James Madison. Those two should be replaced by the Irish and BYU, if we're talking about the 12 best teams in the country.

Also, I would like to express my dismay that the Irish declined an invitation to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl against BYU, which would have been quite fitting and would have generated a great deal of interest nationwide as a game between two deserving teams left out of the playoff. However, I am glad my Yellow Jackets are playing against BYU instead, though it will be a difficult game for us to win.

That you are not a full member of the ACC in football is what cost you a trip to the CFP, because few will disagree that N.D. would have waxed either one of the participants in the ACC title game. And, as you all know, a win over Miami would have gotten you in easily. To sum up, it's clear to me that two groups of people are responsible for Notre Dame missing the playoffs, as follows:

The committee that crafted the playoff criteria, and
The Notre Dame football team.

It is not the fault of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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You’re missing the point. The disgust with the ACC is their actions in the last week promoting Miami in a media blast. Conference is not supposed to promote one school over another.

Also, do you think Alabama with 3 losses should have been in the playoffs?

Are you okay with players sitting out bowl games?
 
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