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  1. 5 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    But would ticket prices be higher for those G5 teams, or for ND? Would the season ticket package be higher for a schedule that had ND instead of a G5?

    *To be clear, I recognize that the actual difference is small relative to the entire athletic budget, but I have seen essentially no blue blood or other big program take any step that doesn't attempt to squeeze very dime out of the system that it can. 

    I would imagine going forward, the SEC is going to drop the P4 rule. The Big 10 doesn't require it and Indiana is certainly lining up 3 cupcakes at home now. If the SEC does the same, it would make sense that we only schedule teams willing to come to DKR. That way you always have 7 home games versus 6 in years we would normally go to the away leg of a P4. 

  2. Is it though? We sold out the stadium for terrible G5 teams this season. What cash bonanza is the program getting from a Notre Dame series than playing Purdue? I don't think TV networks bump up your pay if you get them a sexy OOC matchup to broadcast. I'm imagine the city of Austin does better than Texas does when a big name matchup happens at DKR. Are we basing this on more expensive tickets for a Notre Dame game than someone else?

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  3. 7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    The sport it transactional. Winning a bowl game isn’t going to affect recruiting, portal, or which coaches leave or get fired. 

    I'm pretty sure Concepcion attended aggy bowl game practices which helped him decide to join aggy when he got in the portal. So yeah extra practices can help with that and deciding who gets more playing time next year. Sark specifically addressed that in his media availability yesterday. 

    Edit: yep

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/longformarticle/why-kc-concepcion-wanted-to-catch-passes-from-texas-am-qb-marcel-reed-play-for-complete-aggies-252277450/

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  4. Just now, 'stache said:

    The ACC damages itself by having a 5 loss champion. That alone should have excluded Miami. I don’t care if ND, Texas, BYU, or Vandy got the spot, they all deserved it over any ACC team. 

    They had a 5 loss champion because their conference has too many teams and it was stupid 5 way tiebreaker that got Duke in there. SMU had a chance to get in easily but couldn't beat a shitty Cal team. Miami beat Notre Dame. That should matter and it did. Notre Dame can easily solve all of this by joining a conference so they too will have to be in a championship game with risk. The committee wasn't leaving out the ACC. Where they screwed up was having Notre Dame ranked ahead of Miami last week. It would've gave them easy cover to exclude Notre Dame regardless of the ACC championship or to swap them and piss off Miami if Virginia had won on Saturday. 

  5. 15 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

    we have people on this site who legitametely believe Texas went 9-3 this year because they didn't play a spring game questioning the value of extra practices and more live reps against an upper tier power 4 opponent.

    The Venn Diagram for those who believe in those things would be interesting.

  6. Yeah the ACC is sitting over there saying, what the hell did I do? Is whiny Pete thinking the ACC colluded with the committee to get Miami in? I guess Notre Dame can try to get their special deal with the Big 10 who will tell them no. Or the SEC, same thing. Or the Big 12, well...no. 

  7. West Ham, we were up 2-0 so he wasn't needed. He was subbed in for Gakpo against Sunderland. Not sure why he wasn't subbed on for Leeds other than we had a 2-1 lead until the 75th minute and then Szobo put us up 3-2 in the 80th and we went with more defensive options. Mo's form has fallen off a cliff. We already have a shitty left attack with Gakpo so having Mo also doing nothing is one of many reasons why the offense is bad. I guess Slot is down to his final answers. 

    I frankly don't give a shit what dumbass commentators say about Mo. There are no titles without him. He was Klopp's greatest accomplishment. 

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  8. Pretty sure Mo did this with Klopp just not as nuclear option wise. If I say anything there will be fire or something like that. I get he’s frustrated but he just made himself bigger than the club. I love Mo but nuking your manager is a shitty move when he’s not wrong to bench you. 
     

    Carragher wasn’t wrong two weeks ago when he said you never hear from Mo in rallying the team. Only from VvD. I love Mo but all good things eventually end. I hate that he’s going out this way. But this what happens when you are losing or mediocre and no one has a clue to fix it.

  9. Just now, RC Horn said:

    Bowl games are now an absolute joke,  Thanks NCAA for making bowl games participation trophy events.

    They've been that way since the BCS. Do you look back fondly on all the Holiday, Alamo, and Texas bowls we played in?

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