Alabama may very well be the best college team in the country. But they aren’t the best AMATEUR team…………………….they are the best team money can buy.

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WOW!! Sour grapes from the Irish fans…Before the game it was “we played as good of a schedule as Bama” and now this hilarious bull baby crap. Maybe Notre Dame should play in Division II football if the fans really feel that way. They’d fit right in as they play a Division II schedule every year anyway.

When was the last Rodes Scholar Finalist enrolled at Notre Dame, while playing football? How many of their football players graduate with two degrees?

How right you are! Leaving early or a transfer to another school directly impacts the 6 year rolling average on graduation rates. Most NFL athletes are on a academic progress path to a degree while in school, but that is put to the side should the athlete be playing pro ball. It may take an athlete that is not active in going beyond college ball (ie, Notre Dame) to complete their education in 5 years (6 if you’re Notre Dame because of remedial reading, color recognition, simple word structure and counting to 100….. cue the ND supporters in 4, 3, 2, 1.)

42-14 Bama over ND

RTR

@ Amos

Well – with ND courageously agreeing to take on 5 ACC teams (I doubt Florida State, Clemson, or Georgia Tech will be one of them) they may improve their strength of schedule from “weak” to “mediocre”.

Duke, Waked Forest, North Carolina, Virginia and Miami (since the will be on probation).

That way, nicky nick can pound his chest and say that ND plays “real” schools since the emphasize academics.

Never mind that Alabama had a 77% graduation rate.

Well – with ND courageously agreeing to take on 5 ACC teams (I doubt Florida State, Clemson, or Georgia Tech will be one of them) they may improve their strength of schedule from “weak” to “mediocre”.

Not a complete surprise to me, though I obviously dont agree. Just look at the black and white for a minute though: Both ended up with one loss. Alabama has three absolute jokes out of their 4 out of conference games, while ND played 12 BCS conference teams + Navy. Notre Dame played 9 teams that went to Bowl games, and a 10th that would have gone if not ineligible. Bama played 7. I can see how this would happen in the computers.
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Big fricking whoop. How many of those bowl teams were ranked? Pitt? Navy? Way too many bowl games. 64 teams in 32 bowl games and that is the standard you evaluate ND success?

Alabama was 3-1 against top ten teams
ND was 1-1 against top ten teams

Alabama was 5-1 against top thirty teams
ND was 4-1 against top thirty teams

Alabama had a strength of schedule 19th
ND had a strength of schedule 21st

Note: A&M was 1-2 versus top ten, 3-2 versus top 30 and SoS was 6th. A&M could be a sleeping giant in their new conference.

Until ND decides to play a real big boy schedule against relevant, current powers, they’ll
still try to wake up the chos.

@ amos

You may be on to something. Seems like they’re both waiting for the spaceship behind the comet.

/thankyouI’llbehereallweek

Two shows nightly, 9pm and Midnight.

Remember to tip your waitress, two drink minimum.

Try the veal.

ND sucks, and that it the rest of the story! By the way, shouldn’t you be in South Bend, trying to keep Brian Kelly?

You may be on to something. Seems like they’re both waiting for the spaceship behind the comet.

/thankyouI’llbehereallweek

Are you Ukeone?

@Romulus …

Alabama never claimed a championship that Notre Dame won. Notre Dame defeated Alabama in the title game in 1973 24-23 on a last-second pass.

In 1966, Alabama was the reigning champion, still undefeated and untied, but the AP refused to award Alabama the title because of segregation. Instead they awarded the title to Notre Dame even though Ara Parseghian had deliberately played to a tie against Michigan State when both those teams were undefeated. He knew the title was in his pocket either way. If the AP wanted to make a political statement, they could at least have awarded the title to Michigan State, whose team tried desperately to play for the win.
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Deb, thank you for using a rubber hose, It hardly left any marks and the pain will be
felt for a long time.

I’m offended by this sedition! Bow down to the greatest marvel of human invention, that which is SEC football!
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Ahem, This evidently from an ND supporter who lives and dies on “ancient” National Championships. When was ND’s last National Championship in football? 25 years ago?

Just some actual facts regarding the SEC for the last seven years. The SEC is the best conference in bowl games, period.

The SEC has earned the benefit of the doubt due to its dominance in bowl games. Teams from the SEC have compiled a 17-8 record in BCS games, and are 41-21 in bowls over the last seven seasons. That is why the SEC is proud of it’s conference teams.

What is ND’s bowl history since it’s last National Championship?

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and if ND wants to think of itself of having and SEC defense and SEC running game, why not
schedule some big boy games with LSU, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia or Texas A&M AWAY from South Bend?

Answer, ND lives in the past. They have to play the likes of Purdue, Pittsburgh, Navy in order to pad their schedule. They’re afraid to play the big boys away from South Bend. Don’t think so? Then upgrade your schedule to play CURRENT powers, not programs living in the past.

No ND just has an alleged rapist on the team, Prince Shembo. Katty, how does a well heeled Chicago plaintiff attorney who just happens to be an ND alum get access to privileged university police information on a supposedly internal University investigation and ends up representing Prince pro bono? Can you say Quid pro quo?

Explain to the board how President Jenkins will not meet with the Seeberger family on advise of ND’s legal counsel?

Notre Dame isn’t lily white and as pure as you think they are.

Wait, Notre Dame has turned their nose to the big tin and gone to the ACC?

Update: Jim Delaney and E. Gordon Gee thinks the system needs to change. As long as they can have behind the scenes control.

Sincerely,
Bill Hancock

The above statement is endorsed by every stripper, hooker, bartender, and caddie in every bcs city.

But thanks for your “objective” analysis.

Alabama never claimed a championship that Notre Dame won. Notre Dame defeated Alabama in the title game in 1973 24-23 on a last-second pass.

In 1966, Alabama was the reigning champion, still undefeated and untied, but the AP refused to award Alabama the title because of segregation. Instead they awarded the title to Notre Dame even though Ara Parseghian had deliberately played to a tie against Michigan State when both those teams were undefeated. He knew the title was in his pocket either way. If the AP wanted to make a political statement, they could at least have awarded the title to Michigan State, whose team tried desperately to play for the win.

If you actually read my PFT posts you’d know that …

a) I’m a rape survivor myself, so I don’t defend rape and rapists, and

b) I’m one of Ben Roethlisberger’s biggest critics.

But just as you can’t be an apologist for someone just because of the jersey he wears, you can’t condemn someone without evidence because of the jersey he wears. Because of my own history, of course I spent a great deal of time researching the Roethlisberger case. Since I write and research for a living, I was well equipped to do that. It was an added benefit that my brother is a criminal defense attorney who had a contact on the Georgia case that was able to speak after the case was closed.

Whether you or some harpie who posts on a blog for the sole purpose of making sexually degrading comments to me believe that, I don’t care. It’s public record that the woman in the first case texted friends she couldn’t wait to see Roethlisberger again. It’s public record that the medical record of the woman in the second showed she’d had sex with no one in that time period.

Whatever annoyance you two brain trusts feel at me defending an innocent man is nothing compared to the anger a real rape victim feels over women making false accusations for profit. But you wouldn’t know anything about that.

To me that’s simple logic… FSU lost to #1 ND in South Bend that year and then ND lost to unranked BC at home.

Both were 11-1 I believe after their bowls.

FSU lost to one of the best teams in the country on the road
and ND lost to an unranked team at home.
FSU then went on to beat a very good #2 Nebraska team in the Fiesta Bowl. (After that Nebraska went on to win 3 of the next 4 titles)

I’m no FSU fan but I remember that year.

Louisville’s formula for FL was obvious all year. One week their offense shows up, the next they don’t. Their consistency was in their defense, but even it had holes and Charlie Strong had both inside knowledge and a season’s worth of film to study and plan his offense around. Florida is a great team, but the minute it became an offensive battle that game was over. It didn’t hurt that Louisville’s quarterback is somewhat of a stud either.