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[IrishLion]

How about Illinois at the old Rams stadium in St Louis?

or:

Vandy / UK in Cincy?

PSU, WVU or Cincinnati in Cleveland.

Cincinnati, Illinois, UK, Mizzou in Indy

Minnesota or Iowa at Lambeau

Mizzou or Iowa at Soldier Field.

Sorry Detroit, no soup for you.

I'd love to see ND play a game in Cincy. I always wanted them to schedule a one-off with pOSU here.

Paul Brown Stadium is kind of a boring venue, but it looks okay from the outside if you're on ground-level, and it's not as disconnected from the best parts of the Riverfront as it used to be. Cincinnati's "The Banks" area is now a connector from Great American Ballpark (the nice area of the Riverfront) to Paul Brown, so it would be a cool atmosphere for ND fans to come in town and experience.

Also, it would be extremely convenient for some of us haha.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Iowa vs ND at Lambo would be dope!


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[woolybug25]

Iowa vs ND at Lambo would be dope!


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Why not just play Wisconson at Lambau?

 

[BobbyMac]

Why not just play Wisconson at Lambau?

You want to control the crowds. ND folks being the filthy capitalists they are would sell out and it would be a sea of red.

Did Nebraska teach you nothing?!

You wanna play Wisco, do it in Soldier Field or Indy.

 

[ND NYC]

You want to control the crowds. ND folks being the filthy capitalists they are would sell out and it would be a sea of red.

Did Nebraska teach you nothing?!

You wanna play Wisco, do it in Soldier Field or Indy.

for these shamrock series games ND is the home team.

would be a sea of green, blue and gold in Lambeau.

would make the trip from NYC for ND vs Wiscy--always wanted to see Lambeau almost went to NFC champ game vs GMen when my friends wife almost didn't go cause it was too cold.

 

[BobbyMac]

for these shamrock series games ND is the home team.

would be a sea of green, blue and gold in Lambeau.

would make the trip from NYC for ND vs Wiscy--always wanted to see Lambeau almost went to NFC champ game vs GMen when my friends wife almost didn't go cause it was too cold.

Thanks for the heads up on how that works!

Like I said, see Nebraska pics at ND and see what it would look like. Wisco people might not be as crazy as Husker fans but when you invade their Sunday stadium, I'd lay a stack they'd step way the fug up.

Why play them there when you can guarantee a dominant presence against Iowa or Minnesota?

 

[wizards8507]

Lambeau field will never, ever happen. Shamrock Series is as much about the city as it is about the stadium and nobody wants to go to Green Bay for a four day weekend.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Also fuck Wisconsin.

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[BobbyMac]

Lambeau field will never, ever happen. Shamrock Series is as much about the city as it is about the stadium and nobody wants to go to Green Bay for a four day weekend.

Definitely a Northeasterner's POV. You are the first person I've ever heard say that. Out of my buddies, I'd say it's the most talked about place to have it for Chicagoland / NWI fans.

There's a thousand different ways to do the trip. Stay in Green Bay, Door Co, Appleton or Osh Kosh on Lake Winnie, Milwaukee's under 2 hours.

You are definitely out of step with most on this one.

 

[wizards8507]

Definitely a Northeasterner's POV. You are the first person I've ever heard say that. Out of my buddies, I'd say it's the most talked about place to have it for Chicagoland / NWI fans.

There's a thousand different ways to do the trip. Stay in Green Bay, Door Co, Appleton or Osh Kosh on Lake Winnie, Milwaukee's under 2 hours.

You are definitely out of step with most on this one.

I'm not telling you my opinion as a fan, I'm telling you the University's opinion as a University. I would personally love a game at Lambeau, but the University sees the event as a service and marketing event and that means they want to be in a major metropolitan area.

San Antonio (2.2 million)
New York (23.7 million)
Washington / Baltimore (9.3 million)
Chicago (9.7 million)
Dallas (6.4 million)
Indianapolis (2.0 million)
Boston (4.7 million)

Green Bay, 105K

I promise you, the Shamrock Series will never been in Green Bay.

 

[arrowryan]

I'd love a SS game in...

-Nashville against Tennessee
-Seattle against Washington
-Charlotte against South Carolina
-Philadelphia against Penn State
-New Orleans against Texas A&M

 

[koonja]

I'm for not giving the away team a home game for the SS series. Not sure why that happens, I'm sure there's a reason, but I'd like to know why that's a good idea.

 

[BobbyMac]

Lambeau field will never, ever happen. Shamrock Series is as much about the city as it is about the stadium and nobody wants to go to Green Bay for a four day weekend.

I'm not telling you my opinion as a fan, I'm telling you the University's opinion as a University. I would personally love a game at Lambeau, but the University sees the event as a service and marketing event and that means they want to be in a major metropolitan area.

San Antonio (2.2 million)
New York (23.7 million)
Washington / Baltimore (9.3 million)
Chicago (9.7 million)
Dallas (6.4 million)
Indianapolis (2.0 million)
Boston (4.7 million)

Green Bay, 105K

I promise you, the Shamrock Series will never been in Green Bay.

1. You did share your opinion and then contradicted it. Just saying.

In regards to playing at Lambeau, I wouldn't schedule it there if I were the AD. I don't want to see ND ever play there. I mentioned it because others are always talking about it. I would NEVER play Wisco there. It would be Nebraska in South Bend all over again. SS games are meant to be home away from home games. It has nothing to do with the population of Green Bay. You can't compare the other cities on your list's markets (as you listed them) vs the population of GB within it's city limits. When it comes to football, the entire state of Wisconsin is Green Bay's market population.

I'll stick to markets where there are alumni, fans, Catholics & recruits, then schedule teams that are as close to a guaranteed win as possible.

Illinois in St Louis is a great game to me. A 95% win on paper over a P5 team in a Catholic heavy market that's covered by B1G and SEC teams

 

[wizards8507]

In regards to playing at Lambeau, I wouldn't schedule it there if I were the AD. I don't want to see ND ever play there. I mentioned it because others are always talking about it. I would NEVER play Wisco there. It would be Nebraska in South Bend all over again. SS games are meant to be home away from home games. It has nothing to do with the population of Green Bay. You can't compare the other cities on your list's markets (as you listed them) vs the population of GB within it's city limits. When it comes to football, the entire state of Wisconsin is Green Bay's market population.

My point has almost nothing to do with football, and its clear by this paragraph that you don't understand the purpose of the Shamrock Series and how these decisions are made. It is not about the athletic director making a decision about what's best for the football program, it's about the University making a decision about what's best for the mission. The fact that the entire state of Wisconsin is Green Bay's market when it comes to Packers football is irrelevant because the scope of the Shamrock Series weekend is so much greater than football. To make the most of what the Shamrock Series weekend is all about, it needs to be in a proper city.

From Boston last year:

-- A Friday night event featuring the Boston Pops and the Band of the Fighting Irish, the Notre Dame cheerleaders, Irish Guard and the leprechaun (a ticketed event, with details at gameday.nd.edu; 8:15-10 p.m. EST, at Boston Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston).

The event features NBC News chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson (a 1979 Notre Dame graduate) as master of ceremonies--as well as musical guest Irish tenor Ronan Tynan.

-- "Welcome to Boston," a Friday social event at Blazing Paddles-Game On! (82 Lansdowne Street, near Fenway Park), sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Boston and the Notre Dame Alumni Association (4-8 p.m. EST, tickets available via gameday.nd.edu).

-- The Notre Dame band's Drummer's Circle (10:15-10:45 p.m. EST Friday; Copley Square, 560 Boylston Street in Boston; free and open to the public). The band also will rehearse from 10-11 a.m. EST Friday at Clemente Field, 160 Park Drive in Boston.

-- A Saturday Shamrock Series 5K run in downtown Boston (8 a.m. EST; signup/registration details at gameday.nd.edu, including noon-7 p.m. EST Friday at Marriott Copley Place--Arlington Room on 3rd floor--and 6:30-7:30 a.m. Saturday at Boston Common). Proceeds help fund Notre Dame graduate student fellowships. The race begins and ends on Boston Common. The registration fee is $45.

-- A Saturday Mass at Cathedral of the Holy Cross (11 a.m. EST; 1400 Washington Street in Boston, free and open to the public). Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., will preside and give the homily.

-- The Notre Dame Shamrock Series Fan Fest pre-game event in the Brookline parking lot adjacent to Fenway Park, featuring food trucks, a beer tent, an Under Armour merchandise tent, live musical entertainment (highlighted by Celtic rock band Barleyjuice from Philadelphia), interview segments with VIP guests (noon-6:30 p.m. EST Saturday, with entertainment beginning at 3 p.m.; entry is free and open to the public). The Notre Dame band pre-game concert will be part of this event beginning at 5:50 p.m. EST.

-- Four academic programs, sponsored by various Notre Dame academic departments:

"The Boston Massacre: Re-Imagining the Trial," sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School (6-7 p.m. EST Thursday at the Old South Meeting House; this is a ticketed event, with details at gameday.nd.edu).

"Irish in America: Immigration, Religion and Politics," sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies with the College of Arts and Letters (9-10:15 a.m. EST Friday at the Marriott Copley Place--Salon C-D on 4th floor).

"The Future is Here: Boston as a Model for Sustainable Urbanism," sponsored by the School of Architecture (11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EST Friday at the Old South Meeting House).

"Combining Research and Practice to Serve the Poor," sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters' Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (3-4:15 p.m. EST Friday at the Marriott Copley Place--Wellesley Room on 3rd floor).

All four Friday academic events are free and open to the public.

-- A Saturday with the Saints lecture: "St. Ignatius of Loyola, Reformer: Speaking Up for Catholic Tradition," by Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J., Notre Dame's Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology (1 p.m. EST at Marriott Copley Place--Suffolk Room on 3rd floor; free and open to the public).

-- Play Like A Champion Today Character Education Through Sports workshop (1-2:30 p.m. at Marriott Copley Place--Wellesley Room; free and open to the public).

-- A Friday service project at Fenway Park sponsored by the Notre Dame Alumni Association (1-4 p.m. EST; wait list signup at gameday.nd.edu). In collaboration with Catholic Charities of Boston, Fenway Park, Aramark Food Services and the Notre Dame Club of Boston, volunteers will be packing 1,200 Thanksgiving food bags for local residents in need.

-- The Notre Dame-Boston College football game that kicks off at 7:40 p.m. EST. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. EST. The Yawkey Way hospitality area will be available beginning at 5:30 p.m. EST by showing a game ticket, similar to the arrangement for Boston Red Sox home games.

 

[BobbyMac]

My point has almost nothing to do with football, and its clear by this paragraph that you don't understand the purpose of the Shamrock Series and how these decisions are made. It is not about the athletic director making a decision about what's best for the football program, it's about the University making a decision about what's best for the mission. The fact that the entire state of Wisconsin is Green Bay's market when it comes to Packers football is irrelevant because the scope of the Shamrock Series weekend is so much greater than football. To make the most of what the Shamrock Series weekend is all about, it needs to be in a proper city.

From Boston last year:

All the festivities you listed in Boston could be copy/pasted in Milwaukee.

Almost 3x more Catholics in the Milwaukee Archdiocese than in Indy's and it's 1/3 the geographic size.

Milwaukee has roughly the same amount of Catholics as the San Antonio Archdiocese in an area 1/6 the geographic size.

Milwaukee's also just 90 miles from ND's most important market, Chicago. Your points aren't compelling. You are actually making a case for a game at Lambeau... or worse yet, Miller Park.

 

[GBdomer]

Lambeau field will never, ever happen. Shamrock Series is as much about the city as it is about the stadium and nobody wants to go to Green Bay for a four day weekend.

The fuck you just say about my city? Just kidding I don't blame ya but honestly Lambeau is a sick game day experience and I am huge Bears fan. But honestly not a single person in Green Bay, Wisconsin gives a flying fuck about ND football so it really makes zero sense to play here like you said. Plus there would be absolutely nowhere to put all these people coming in for the game

But if we do for some reason play at Lambeau some of you guys can crash with me

 

[BobbyMac]

Where do Bears fans stay on gameday?

 

[GBdomer]

Where do Bears fans stay on gameday?

a lot drive home or stay in Appleton and a few smaller cities south

 

[condoms SUCk]

for these shamrock series games ND is the home team.

would be a sea of green, blue and gold in Lambeau.

would make the trip from NYC for ND vs Wiscy--always wanted to see Lambeau almost went to NFC champ game vs GMen when my friends wife almost didn't go cause it was too cold.

Too bad SS games are not included in the season tickets you pay $2,000 for :/ or I would totally go to Lambeau.

 

[dshans]

But if we do for some reason play at Lambeau some of you guys can crash with me

Would I be invited?

Rest easy, my friend.

I no longer reside in Minneapolis.

Jacksonville to Green Bay would be too much of a stretch.

 

[woolybug25]

But if we do for some reason play at Lambeau some of you guys can crash with me

We would turn up, fam.

 

[BobbyMac]

a lot drive home or stay in Appleton and a few smaller cities south

Exactly. Most of us do. Most ND fans would drive up from Chicagoland also, like they do for most any home game in SB. Instead of the Saturday morning Irish 500 on the Toll Road, it would be the Irish 500 on 94 & 43.

The thought of Lambeau being a bad place for an SS game when it could be based in Milwaukee is silly. Doesn't mean i want it there against Wisco though.

Maybe ND should play Northwestern or the Illini there? That would pizz all the Fudgies off. Their stadium full of Chicagoans would be priceless.

 

[GBdomer]

Would I be invited?

Rest easy, my friend.

I no longer reside in Minneapolis.

Jacksonville to Green Bay would be too much of a stretch.

I wouldn't take you across the street with me but if you were in the area I would slip you a hot dog and a Kinky blue ice

 

[GBdomer]

Exactly. Most of us do. Most ND fans would drive up from Chicagoland also, like they do for most any home game in SB. Instead of the Saturday morning Irish 500 on the Toll Road, it would be the Irish 500 on 94 & 43.

The thought of Lambeau being a bad place for an SS game when it could be based in Milwaukee is silly. Doesn't mean i want it there against Wisco though.

Maybe ND should play Northwestern or the Illini there? That would pizz all the Fudgies off. Their stadium full of Chicagoans would be priceless.

I think us playing at Wrigley would make much more sense, I wouldn't understand the Lambeau I guess but I do somewhat see what you are saying

 

[dshans]

I wouldn't take you across the street with me but if you were in the area I would slip you a hot dog and a Kinky blue ice

I might thank you.

I think.

If I were not comatose and on my to my son exercising my DNR after the fact.

 

[Crazy Balki]

I'd rather play at Wrigley than that curd-infested rat hole in Bumblespit, Wisconsin.

 

[dshans]

I'd rather play at Wrigley than that curd-infested rat hole in Bumblespit, Wisconsin.

You, Sir, are An Ass.

You've not even approached Nirvana until you've sucked on some deep fried Wisconsin Curds!




[They squeak on your teeth!]

 

[GBdomer]

I'd rather play at Wrigley than that curd-infested rat hole in Bumblespit, Wisconsin.

lol Jesus, Curds are amazing and yes, we come from the same city and I know you probably hate the Packers but Green Bay is actually a great city with awesome people. Also there isn't to many better places on earth to watch a football game then Lambeau field and you won't find more passionate football fans then Packer fans and this is all coming from a guy who can't fcking stand the Packers

 

[Sherm Sticky]

There will never be a football game at Wrigley after that last disaster. Only going one direction on the field is stupid.


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[Crazy Balki]

lol Jesus, Curds are amazing and yes, we come from the same city and I know you probably hate the Packers but Green Bay is actually a great city with awesome people. Also there isn't to many better places on earth to watch a football game then Lambeau field and you won't find more passionate football fans then Packer fans and this is all coming from a guy who can't fcking stand the Packers

I'm disappointed to hear that. You need to have more pride in your home fanbase. You can certainly find more passionate fans. They reside in the 4th Phase! Green Bay sucks!