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15 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

When FSU got "screwed" out of the playoff 2 years ago, their titty baby reaction immediately killed their program. 2 straight dogshit losing years. All their previous momentum sucked dry specifically because they decided to play the victim. Nice job by ND to follow that example. 

 

 

Correlation, meet causation. 

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1 hour ago, nineliveslost said:

woa woa woa homie. Notre Dame and Navy play and will always play for a specific reason and its absolutely the right thing to do. Learn history of college football and don't post dumb shit. Notre Dame more than likely would not be what they are without Navy. JESUS 

time to move on old man, stop being aggy 

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Teams opting out of bowls really should lose eligibility for any bowl or playoffs the following season.  I actually like ND, but they absolutely want to have their own set of rules and that just doesn't work anymore. 

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While I agree with ND being out, the fact that the government threatened the playoff committee with taking over if Miami didn't make it should really be a much bigger deal. 

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"We're not gonna let you take advantage of us",  says the university that has taken advantage of CFB for decades as an independent and has a secret, signed agreement with CFB to automatically make the playoff next year if ranked in the top 12. 

 

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ND gets favored status in future...

Gerry on OTF tonight said something along the lines of...

  • ND as independent gets no conf revenue sharing money
  • ND as independent when they make CFP, they don't share CFP money with any other teams

Not making CFP hurts ND financially...

Posted
1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

What's the logic behind missing out on the extra practices?

Would be funny if ND say F-you to whole CFB system and hold extra practices anyway... 😋

 

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7 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Gerry on OTF tonight said something along the lines of...

  • ND as independent gets no conf revenue sharing money
  • ND as independent when they make CFP, they don't share CFP money with any other teams

Not making CFP hurts ND financially...

Good. Fuck 'em!

Posted (edited)
6 hours ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

Lots of missed practice time among other considerations 

I can imagine teams - esp UND - telling the NCAA to f-off.  “We will practice when we want to.”

Edited to add - someone else also had this idea….

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Chris Vannini: Notre Dame’s opt-out crosses a new line — and college football is worse off for it

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Notre Dame has taken its ball and gone home, and everyone is worse off for it. The 10-2 Fighting Irish on Sunday announced they would not accept a bowl bid, hours after being the first team left out of the College Football Playoff field, replaced by Miami despite neither playing last weekend. They’re understandably angry — I had Miami and Notre Dame both in the field in my rankings, for what it’s worth — but punting on finishing out the season because you got snubbed is short-sighted and embarrassing, and it removed any sympathy fans may have had for the Irish missing the Playoff field. It’s too early to say if this is a death knell for bowls, but it’s another unprecedented line crossed. No, I don’t think the Irish did this to honor the program’s 45-year no-bowls policy that lasted until 1969.

“We appreciate all the support from our families and fans, and we’re hoping to bring the 12th national title to South Bend in 2026,” a nameless team statement read. It’s hard to see how giving up 15 bowl practices helps that 2026 run, especially for a team with so many bright young pieces. That’s an entire spring camp’s worth of practice the Irish are just giving up. They have a budding star redshirt freshman QB in C.J. Carr and just signed the No. 4 recruiting class in the country, one of the best and most drama-free Notre Dame has ever had. It would’ve been nice to have some of those early enrollees take advantage of the perk of bowl practices, no? No. Instead, a team with hurt feelings will wallow in those feelings.

I’m not oblivious to the reality of the modern bowl system. I understand why NFL-bound players sit out of bowls. Especially at Notre Dame, where former linebacker Jaylon Smith once tore his ACL and MCL in a non-playoff Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State to end the 2015 season. Jeremiyah Love was probably never going to play in a bowl this year, and that’s OK. We’ve also seen rosters decimated after coaching changes in the transfer portal era, like LSU playing with just 45 scholarship players in the 2021 Texas Bowl. That’s not good. Some places really can’t field teams for these games.

But Notre Dame isn’t that. This isn’t a team going through a coaching change like Kansas State and Iowa State, two 6-6 teams who also opted out this year. This isn’t a team that had a miserable fall and just wants to end it — Notre Dame has won 10 games in a row. This isn’t a team short on players due to the transfer portal, because the portal doesn’t open until January now. Somehow, dozens of other teams playing in bowl games will be able to field rosters. It’s just a team that didn’t get the postseason spot it wanted. Are the days of scorned teams being motivated to win their bowl games over? The comparison to 2023 Florida State is the obvious one people want to make here. That Seminoles team, truly snubbed by the committee despite a 13-0 season, fielded what was basically a JV team against No. 6 Georgia and got pounded 63-3. But that’s an outlier, even recently.

In 2022, when Alabama was the first team out, the Crimson Tide and their top stars, including Bryce Young, played the Sugar Bowl and beat Kansas State. Last year’s Alabama team, again the first team out, saw most of its top players, including Jalen Milroe, suit up and play Michigan. Reports indicate Notre Dame was likely to play BYU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. That’s BYU, a team that has a case that it was snubbed by the committee two years in a row. What did BYU do after last year’s CFP shutout? The Cougars stomped Colorado in the Alamo Bowl and made people think they may have gotten the Cougars wrong. (Bonus credit to Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter for playing in that game, by the way.)

Much like Lane Kiffin leaving a national championship-contending Ole Miss for LSU during the season, what Notre Dame is doing here is another line crossed in the modern era. The point of playing football is to play football. Business decisions and economics are part of it, but the business (and coverage) of this sport has warped too many of us into believing all that matters is the championship at the end. For 100 years, that’s not what college football was about. There has always been talking out of both sides of one’s mouth, whether that was amateurism when coaches made millions or preaching loyalty as people changed jobs. But there was still a throughline that teams weren’t being viewed through a pro sports playoff mindset.

Indiana played Ohio State in a Big Ten title game that, from a Playoff perspective, didn’t really matter. But players lined up and played hard, because that’s football, and you only get so few chances to do this. You saw the emotions of Indiana winning its first Big Ten title in 58 years, beating Ohio State for the first time in 37 years, and you remembered what this is actually about. You see Texas Tech fans, with a CFP spot already locked up, in tears for winning their first real conference championship in 49 years. Duke didn’t have a real Playoff shot, and the Blue Devils played their asses off to win their first ACC crown in 36 years. The Playoff doesn’t have to be everything.

Maybe the independence of it all is what led Notre Dame to its decision. There was no fine from a conference coming like Iowa State and Kansas State received. The Irish have always been different, received special treatment, and the rest of college sports has hated them for it. I’ve always appreciated it, to be honest. As everyone else has shed traditions, it was Notre Dame keeping it alive, remembering the past. The sport is at its best when it honors that. That’s why the Irish skipping a bowl game is so disappointing. Notre Dame has long been viewed as the example of what college football is in any given era. And if that’s the case, right now, it doesn’t look good.

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, chainsaw said:

What's the logic behind missing out on the extra practices?

Self-injurious behavior like a child would when they don't get their way.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

The histrionics and reactionary decision making from these athletic departments is so pathetic. 

Yes, they should be even-tempered like Surly!

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Posted
Just now, RomaVicta said:

Yes, they should be even-tempered like Surly!

nonononono

nd should continue doing exactly what they're doing

it's so funny

 

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31 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

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In the end, this. 

ND decided to be little bitch babies and the end result is they'll be the laughingstock of college football all off season. Incredible own goal. 

 

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Posted
7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

@Crockett what's the word from deseret?

you might get more publicity joining domer in not playing each other than you will from playing a bowl

We feel jobbed by the CFP committee, but they have been telegraphing this move for weeks so we expected it. We were not shocked like ND. Even still we feel like every year we are taking a step forward. First year in P4 was rough (5-7). Y2 we were 11-2 and almost made the CCG and the CFP. Y3 we were 11-1, made the CCG, and just barely missed the CFP. We also just signed our highest rated recruiting class ever (#21), locked in our head coach, and have increased commitments for NIL. We are ascendant and the future looks bright.

Kalani is taking the high road and saying all the right things and showing respect for Georgia Tech. We all wanted to play ND, show we are better than them, and show we deserved to be in the CFP. We want to take our righteous anger out on our next opponent like we did to Colorado last year after getting snubbed by the CFP. 

We mostly think ND is acting like cowards (they knew they would be playing BYU and decline) and crybabies. They are throwing a fit. 

Some history. We had a 6 game contract during independence with ND. It was a 2-for-1 home/away balance. When they made a deal with the ACC that complicated the series and delayed it. We had played 2 games in Bend and we were trying to get the game in Provo scheduled. They wouldn't fulfill their agreement and refused to come to Provo. We ended up playing a neutral in Vegas to close out the shortened deal. We see it as another bitchass move on their part, just like the refusal to play us again this year. A lot of BYU fans are sick of their antics. 

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Posted (edited)
10 hours ago, mdmost said:

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


 I do. Had a great time at two Holiday bowls and several Alamo bowls. 

 

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