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2014- 2016 Schedules
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotreDame&src=hash">#NotreDame</a>'s final game against <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Michigan&src=hash">#Michigan</a>, unsurprisingly, will be a primetime kickoff on Sept. 6, 2014.</p>— Matt Fortuna (@Matt_Fortuna) <a href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Fortuna/statuses/414062858884771840">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>We are minutes away from the unveiling of 2014.’15, and ’16 <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball">@NDFootball</a> schedules. Tune in now!: <a href="http://t.co/ZemZCQzXZu">http://t.co/ZemZCQzXZu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NDFBschedule&src=hash">#NDFBschedule</a></p>— WatchND (@WatchND) <a href="https://twitter.com/WatchND/statuses/414062795848568833">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>We are minutes away from the unveiling of 2014.’15, and ’16 <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball">@NDFootball</a> schedules. Tune in now!: <a href="http://t.co/ZemZCQzXZu">http://t.co/ZemZCQzXZu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NDFBschedule&src=hash">#NDFBschedule</a></p>— WatchND (@WatchND) <a href="https://twitter.com/WatchND/statuses/414062795848568833">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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wtf are ND playing UMass somebody tell me? they may even have a team come 2015
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I love the schedules, but sorry, I feel like ND is slitting their own throat with a gauntlet like that. Does anyone (besides you green koolaid freaks) honestly think ND can win enough games in each of those years to make the playoff? I'm skeptical. Possible, yes....but they sure did make it hard on themselves. (Just my knee jerk reaction to the schedules)
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I agree it is the easiest of the three (as it stands today). 2014 is just insane. No byes before any of the biggest games and that last 4 game stretch could be brutal.
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charlie molnar--if he is still there
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Swarbrick: “We like to play our family.” Former coaches Charley Molnar, Brian Polian on future schedules, adds possibility of others.</p>— Andrew Owens (@BGI_AndrewOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BGI_AndrewOwens/statuses/414069130887565312">December 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Yeah these schedules are pretty challenging. Idt challenging is a bad thing, but damn those have the potential to be some hard schedules. We'll see how strong our program really is
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cuz it sucks not having ND football on saturdays
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Yeah if we go 11-1 next season we should definitely get a playoff spot. In 2015, if Texas is about as good as they are now and if Clemson takes a small step back 11-1/12-0 is doable.
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6-5-1 scheduling model.
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Who make Savvy Jack's PowerPoint? These slides are hideous.
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Priorities, dude.
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The sad thing is the chick went to Notre Dame.
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Anything worse than 10-2 next year is a huge disappointment.
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In the next round of Shamrock Series matchups beginning with the 2017 season, Swarbrick said the emphasis will be on finding sites in the mid-Atlantic, mid-South and South.
“Florida, Atlanta, Charlotte,” he mentioned as potential destinations. “We want to make sure we get there because we’re very focused on getting the right geographic disbursement. We’re interested in trying to figure out the 49ers’ new stadium (which opens in 2014) and how we can get there. Of course [49ers executive] Jed York is a graduate of this place and we’d love to visit his new stadium. A lot of places to get to.”
Swarbrick said he and Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon have not discussed any future continuation of the series between the schools. He added that an emphasis has been placed on agreeing to a home-and-home series with an SEC school later in the decade.
“If there’s one sort of big thing we still have the flexibility to do, it’s that,” he said. “We tried very hard to preserve that when we were moving all these chess pieces. We probably have room in this decade for one more home and home with somebody. Our priority would be an SEC school.”
Danny Spond
Swarbrick mentioned senior linebacker Danny Spond as one of the many injuries that impacted the 2013 Irish.
Swarbrick said the most difficult aspect of schedule-making is behind him because of the combination of prior agreements and the ACC commitment the next few seasons, but added that the program does not have much flexibility until 2020.
“It does get easier in the sense that to resolve the current year issues, you had to sort of take inventory and spread it into those future years,” he said. “So the good news is it’s easier. The bad news is having had to use some of that inventory to work all this out, we had less flexibility in the future for a while until we burn all this off. I’ll give you an example. In resolving the Arizona State issue regarding when we play and where we play, we needed Temple’s cooperation, so we had to get Temple to move a date, hence cementing in their return visit to Notre Dame.”
State of the Union
Swarbrick said the football team’s finish in November impressed him, especially considering the number of injured players the roster carried. He added that he feels as strongly about the team’s direction as ever heading into 2014.
“I thought we played in those last two games — BYU and Stanford — really, really well,” he said. “So you’re always looking for progress and I thought we demonstrated a whole lot of growth, a whole lot of fortitude. I loved the way we played in those two games. We were physical, we didn’t make a lot of mistakes. We played the sort of football we needed to play to win.
“It’s interesting when you put [2012 and 2013] together, you could argue we won a couple last year that maybe the gods were smiling on us and I think the same happened with a couple losses this year. You can’t spot Oklahoma 14 points and we did in the first few minutes, but then, frankly, we played better, I thought, the rest of that game. We hurt ourselves, but that was clearly a game we could’ve won. Michigan is a game we could’ve won. We laid an egg in Pittsburgh. That was the disappointing one, but again, this team had so much to overcome this year, so much.”
Swarbrick rattled off names of players whom might have been forgotten by the end of the season because they were injured so early in the year (Danny Spond and Nicky Baratti during the preseason and Daniel Smith and Jarrett Grace on Oct. 5). He noted how many younger players received valuable experience down the stretch that will benefit them.
“It is remarkable how few snaps our starting defensive line played together this year,” he said. “If I’m not mistaken, it’s in the 20s. It’s amazing. So from that perspective to perform as well as we did and perform as well as we did at the end of the season, it really makes me excited.”
Swarbrick remains adamant that the four-team College Football Playoff (debuting after the 2014 regular season) is a positive for the sport and that the system benefits Notre Dame.
“Nothing about the system from a procedural perspective disadvantages us,” said Swarbrick, who added that he has “enormous confidence” in the selection committee. “That was my focus and goal. I wanted to make sure of that. We’ll see how the process works. None of us knows. We will all learn a lot in the first couple years about what you have to do to make a case to be in the final four. We’ll learn, we’ll find out.
“I hope there are years we are in it and I hope there are years where we think we should be in it and we’re not. We’ll have something to talk about then.”
“Florida, Atlanta, Charlotte,” he mentioned as potential destinations. “We want to make sure we get there because we’re very focused on getting the right geographic disbursement. We’re interested in trying to figure out the 49ers’ new stadium (which opens in 2014) and how we can get there. Of course [49ers executive] Jed York is a graduate of this place and we’d love to visit his new stadium. A lot of places to get to.”
Swarbrick said he and Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon have not discussed any future continuation of the series between the schools. He added that an emphasis has been placed on agreeing to a home-and-home series with an SEC school later in the decade.
“If there’s one sort of big thing we still have the flexibility to do, it’s that,” he said. “We tried very hard to preserve that when we were moving all these chess pieces. We probably have room in this decade for one more home and home with somebody. Our priority would be an SEC school.”
Danny Spond
Swarbrick mentioned senior linebacker Danny Spond as one of the many injuries that impacted the 2013 Irish.
Swarbrick said the most difficult aspect of schedule-making is behind him because of the combination of prior agreements and the ACC commitment the next few seasons, but added that the program does not have much flexibility until 2020.
“It does get easier in the sense that to resolve the current year issues, you had to sort of take inventory and spread it into those future years,” he said. “So the good news is it’s easier. The bad news is having had to use some of that inventory to work all this out, we had less flexibility in the future for a while until we burn all this off. I’ll give you an example. In resolving the Arizona State issue regarding when we play and where we play, we needed Temple’s cooperation, so we had to get Temple to move a date, hence cementing in their return visit to Notre Dame.”
State of the Union
Swarbrick said the football team’s finish in November impressed him, especially considering the number of injured players the roster carried. He added that he feels as strongly about the team’s direction as ever heading into 2014.
“I thought we played in those last two games — BYU and Stanford — really, really well,” he said. “So you’re always looking for progress and I thought we demonstrated a whole lot of growth, a whole lot of fortitude. I loved the way we played in those two games. We were physical, we didn’t make a lot of mistakes. We played the sort of football we needed to play to win.
“It’s interesting when you put [2012 and 2013] together, you could argue we won a couple last year that maybe the gods were smiling on us and I think the same happened with a couple losses this year. You can’t spot Oklahoma 14 points and we did in the first few minutes, but then, frankly, we played better, I thought, the rest of that game. We hurt ourselves, but that was clearly a game we could’ve won. Michigan is a game we could’ve won. We laid an egg in Pittsburgh. That was the disappointing one, but again, this team had so much to overcome this year, so much.”
Swarbrick rattled off names of players whom might have been forgotten by the end of the season because they were injured so early in the year (Danny Spond and Nicky Baratti during the preseason and Daniel Smith and Jarrett Grace on Oct. 5). He noted how many younger players received valuable experience down the stretch that will benefit them.
“It is remarkable how few snaps our starting defensive line played together this year,” he said. “If I’m not mistaken, it’s in the 20s. It’s amazing. So from that perspective to perform as well as we did and perform as well as we did at the end of the season, it really makes me excited.”
Swarbrick remains adamant that the four-team College Football Playoff (debuting after the 2014 regular season) is a positive for the sport and that the system benefits Notre Dame.
“Nothing about the system from a procedural perspective disadvantages us,” said Swarbrick, who added that he has “enormous confidence” in the selection committee. “That was my focus and goal. I wanted to make sure of that. We’ll see how the process works. None of us knows. We will all learn a lot in the first couple years about what you have to do to make a case to be in the final four. We’ll learn, we’ll find out.
“I hope there are years we are in it and I hope there are years where we think we should be in it and we’re not. We’ll have something to talk about then.”
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The Warchant guys are trying to make it a big deal too. We may have a charity golf game on the Friday before the game. If I can find a way to get some ie members to come, that would be awesome.
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Recuriting pitch we play everywhere and everyone in the damn country
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I didn't think next year looks so bad...
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It's a gauntlet. Beating Michigan is an absolute MUST WIN if we have any chance of making a good bowl.