forums

USA Today takes an elephant sized dump on ND

hoops156 said:
this. i actually think ND got hosed bc i think theyd smoke bama.

Bama should have been the team that got left out. its a joke they didnt make it and you can thank the devotion to the machine for this bull****. they should have been lower than miami for ***** sake as the lowest at large seed for having 3 losses and getting blown out twice.
Click to expand...

I hope we get to knock out two SEC teams. I can’t see ou/bama getting past Indiana and Texas Tech/Oregon.
 
Advertisement
hoops156 said:
this. i actually think ND got hosed bc i think theyd smoke bama.

Bama should have been the team that got left out. its a joke they didnt make it and you can thank the devotion to the machine for this bull****. they should have been lower than miami for ***** sake as the lowest at large seed for having 3 losses and getting blown out twice.
Click to expand...

Yeah but for TV dollars the CFP should only make one selection show on Sunday. Same way with FSU, they lose Travis yet the committee keeps them at the same ranking because they kept winning, albeit ugly, then they win the ACC ship in a super ugly game and now the committee says we consider the QB's injury, fine but drop them weeks before, they legit try and hope the team will lose and if they dont they will just drop them on a subjective test.

I also agree with counting the championship game across the board. I understand the issue that certain teams may lose or try to not play in a championship game (A&M maybe? Losing the last game of the year to get healthy knowing no way they drop out of top 10?) but I kept hearing people say Bama is the #1 seed in the SEC, they HAVE to be in, then in that case Duke has a stronger argument. But no, they got in based on a weird tie breaker because the conferences are too big. Yes they played a tough schedule, **** happens, yet the championshi game cant only count for good, like if a team can go from 7th to 4th and get a first round bye as a reward there has to be some risk. Or say a team at 11 like BYU can win and be in, again has to be some risk, and I think that risk is if you are a top 4 and have a first round bye and lose, you may lose your bye rights, if you are a fringe 10 team and lose, then you are out the playoffs. EIther get rid of the championship games or make em count both ways.

And I agree with you on Bama, should have been way too hard for them to climb the ladder after losing to god awful FSU and they limped to the end of the season.
 
Cookie917 said:
Yeah but for TV dollars the CFP should only make one selection show on Sunday. Same way with FSU, they lose Travis yet the committee keeps them at the same ranking because they kept winning, albeit ugly, then they win the ACC ship in a super ugly game and now the committee says we consider the QB's injury, fine but drop them weeks before, they legit try and hope the team will lose and if they dont they will just drop them on a subjective test.

I also agree with counting the championship game across the board. I understand the issue that certain teams may lose or try to not play in a championship game (A&M maybe? Losing the last game of the year to get healthy knowing no way they drop out of top 10?) but I kept hearing people say Bama is the #1 seed in the SEC, they HAVE to be in, then in that case Duke has a stronger argument. But no, they got in based on a weird tie breaker because the conferences are too big. Yes they played a tough schedule, **** happens, yet the championshi game cant only count for good, like if a team can go from 7th to 4th and get a first round bye as a reward there has to be some risk. Or say a team at 11 like BYU can win and be in, again has to be some risk, and I think that risk is if you are a top 4 and have a first round bye and lose, you may lose your bye rights, if you are a fringe 10 team and lose, then you are out the playoffs. EIther get rid of the championship games or make em count both ways.

And I agree with you on Bama, should have been way too hard for them to climb the ladder after losing to god awful FSU and they limped to the end of the season.
Click to expand...
realistically speaking,is bama schedule trulyinsanely hard or a product of the CFP/AP continuing to rerank SEC teams unfairly?
 
hoops156 said:
realistically speaking,is bama schedule trulyinsanely hard or a product of the CFP/AP continuing to rerank SEC teams unfairly?
Click to expand...
A mix of both.... insanely hard? no. But harder than ND and probably a lot of other teams? yes.

comparing them to ND however: as ND/Bama and who has the edge

Miami/FSU: edge ND
Texas AM/ UL Monroe: ND
Purdue/Wisconsin: Bama
Arkansas/UGA: Bama
Boise/Vandy: Bama
NC State/Missouri: Bama
USC/Tenn: close, call it a push
BC/SC: Bama
Navy/LSU: Bama
Pitt/ Oklahoma: Bama
Syracuse/Eastern Illinois: ND
Stanford/Auburn : Bama
 
hoops156 said:
this. i actually think ND got hosed bc i think theyd smoke bama.

Bama should have been the team that got left out. its a joke they didnt make it and you can thank the devotion to the machine for this bull****. they should have been lower than miami for ***** sake as the lowest at large seed for having 3 losses and getting blown out twice.
Click to expand...
Miami and ND should both be in

The moment they moved Bama UP after a weak lucky win over a bad Auburn team and moved Notre Dame DOWN after steamrolling people (while Miami didn’t move at all after destroying Pitt) the hypocrisy was in full force

All that being said…**** ND
 
When considering how everything worked out, Notre Dame was eliminated last week.
What reasonable scenario would have gotten them in?
 
hoops156 said:
this. i actually think ND got hosed bc i think theyd smoke bama.

Bama should have been the team that got left out. its a joke they didnt make it and you can thank the devotion to the machine for this bull****. they should have been lower than miami for ***** sake as the lowest at large seed for having 3 losses and getting blown out twice.
Click to expand...
I may be totally off on this one, but I don’t think they survive first round. De bore is as beta as they come.
 
Advertisement
CreativeCane said:
Hopefully the CFP will look at this reaction and continue to punish them, taking away any sweetheart deals in place.
Click to expand...
I think, based on the comments of their AD, they're gonna go to the Big12 for all non-football sports. Neither the B10 nor the SEC will give in to their demand to stay independent in football; they're already ****ed at the ACC for supporting a member school over them; and the Big12 is the only option that would allow them to have their cake and eat it too.
 
CanefaninBuckeyeland said:
I think, based on the comments of their AD, they're gonna go to the Big12 for all non-football sports. Neither the B10 nor the SEC will give in to their demand to stay independent in football; they're already ****ed at the ACC for supporting a member school over them; and the Big12 is the only option that would allow them to have their cake and eat it too.
Click to expand...
see ya goodbye GIF
 
ND should show a little class, man up, play the very best team in a bowl game and hope to annihilate said team so they can show the CFC that they should have been included. Instead, they’re embarked on a pity party blaming the ACC and anyone else they can dredge up. Not a good look. Oh the horror of Indiana making the playoffs and ND didn’t!
 
Last edited:
Matt Hayes is a Gator, so no love for ND like his brother Pat. I took Pat to the big games in the OB in the 80's and made him a Cane fan with the beatdowns for OU, ND and F$U.
 
Article is right. If ND wants to win the ship next year, they shouldn't have turned down the bowl.

People clown on us for going to the Pop Tarts bowl last year, but you can't tell me those practices didn't help our younger guys and our staff get in a better position for this year. Even if we lose to TAMU, everything we do helps put us in a better position for the future.
 
Advertisement
Back
Top