Notre Dame

[Mac]

No cupcake scheduling, as Notre Dame opens up AT #23 Pitt and rips them to shreads.

42-13 when I turned it off...

They play Michigan next, another ranked team in the toughest schedule in the Nation, no cupcakes allowed..

Only team brave enough to face three of the top four teams in the nation..

We can take pride in our schedule, no matter the outcome.

No cupcakes.

 

[cdt]

Actually Notre Dame is asking the ncaa to lighten it up, you guys dont ask for those games they give them to ya, nd has been trying like hell to get these games a little easier..

 

[Mac]

NCAA doesnt schedule Notre Dame's games...

So, no, they arent asking the NCAA to lighten it up.

 

[Style]

Personally I like a couple cupcakes, for a couple reasons.

One, it's hard enough to go undefeated and win the national title even with a few gimmies, let alone playing tough schools all year. How many times have you seen the schools with easier schedules finish higher than they should b/c their opposition was not up to par. Every year my friend, every year. One joker even has Louisville ranked #1 b/c their schedule is so easy he doesn't see how they can lose. Granted, that guy is retarded and should be banned from every writing for the public again, but it does show the importance of schedule in relation to how you finish.

Two, blow outs are fantastic for the development of your younger players. Let's face it, there is no substitute for PT. Even if that pt is coming against the opponants backups in garbage minutes. If you don't have any blowouts, your backups never get to play. It makes the transition from one year to the next, when your seniors leave, much more difficult if your young players have zero experience.

Three, the one reason to have a tough schedule used to be b/c it was part of the bcs and could help you get to the title game. With strength of schedule being removed, is there any reason not to schedule a couple cupcakes?

Four, more home games. It's great for the fans and players, brings in a ton of money to the athletic department, and gives you more opportunities to recruit players.

 

[Mac]

I cant believe you actually justified having cupcakes...

Valid points, maybe...but I always hated playing against lesser opponents when I was playing basketball.

I cant take pride in beating up on bums.

 

[cavincali]

but the school sees the $$$ and they could realy care less about pride. the players dont make the schedule.

 

[Mac]

Another bad excuse.

 

[cavincali]

oh wait, how good has it done your school.

you could ride this thing out with your cupcake speal, but every college does it.

 

[Mac]

Except Notre Dame.

 

[Style]

I cant believe you actually justified having cupcakes...

Valid points, maybe...but I always hated playing against lesser opponents when I was playing basketball.

I cant take pride in beating up on bums.

I gave four points that you even said were valid for scheduling cupcakes. You gave one point against, that YOU dislike playing lesser opponents. Come on now, not only are we talking one to four, but your one is pretty weak.

I'll give a few more. It's great for the lesser team's program. Smaller schools can use that in recruiting: "Hey, if you come here, look at some of the great teams you'll get to play. You will get to test yourself against the best, and get national exposure to boot." Also, it gives a large pay check for the smaller school. When OSU played SDSU a few years ago, I remember reading that they made more money on that one game, coming to the horseshoe, than the did the whole rest of the season combined!

Sounds like a win win to me.

 

[cavincali]

oh yeah another reason dame doesnt want to go to the big ten or any conference for that matter is because of the t.v. contract. would that be affected if they did join a conference?

 

[Mac]

Its sad that you are arguing for cup cake games.

You are one person I would never play any sport with if that is your mentality.

Weak.

and yes Cali, it would, since they couldnt have automatic rights to away games.

But either way, there is too much history for Notre Dame to throw away to join a conference. They have so many rivals and rivalry games. Pretty much every game they play has a big history, it's not worth throwing that away.

I wish they woudl schedule FSU again, those were some very good games to watch.

 

[Style]

Its sad that you are arguing for cup cake games.

There are very good reasons to play cupcakes. The additional money for extra home games is huge. That in itself is a good enough reason to play them. Let me put it terms you can understand. You have the opportunity to do some simple heater jobs, but the jobs are well below your level. They are jobs that "the new guy" should get, not a veteran heater repair man like yourself. However, they're offering double the money you'd get working on more complex heater jobs that are more at your level. You telling me you wouldn't swallow your pride and take the lower job for more cash?

Now let's use OSU for another working example. OSU, like most (all?) universities is non-profit. However, that doesn't mean that money isn't extremely important to the university. The only sports that make money are football and men's basketball. All the rest lose money. However, they make sooooo much money from those two sports that they're able to fund a ton of sports. OSU actually offers the most varsity sports of any university in america. You may not care about sports like synchronized swimming or tennis, but those other sports are a huge deal to the university. OSU was top five in the sears cup last year, and has been top ten the last several. There is no way they could compete for the sears cup consistently if they didn't have the funding from Football and basketball for those other sports.

Now am I advocating a schedule full of cup cakes? Of course not. Who wants to see that. But if you have one or two openings and you want to slide cup cakes in, there is plenty of good reason to do it. Schools that play in the big ten or SEC get plenty of tough games just going through their conference as it is. Adding one or two additional tough games at the expense of cutting 10 varsity sports (which is not unrealistic, since a school like OSU makes millions off every home game) doesn't help the university.

 

[Mac]

You obviously didnt read anything I said.

Im done talking to you, simple minded.

 

[TrueCavsFan23]

u gotta admit mac tho miami of ohio isnt sweet but the way we killed them i dont think many teams could do.it was 34-0 then our backup D came in and gave up 2 TD's.