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re: Notre Dame Athletics Director: "We want to play SEC schools"
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:03 pm to Katy Tiger
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:03 pm to Katy Tiger
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Funny that they suddenly want to play SEC schools. They've made zero attempt to do so in the last 20 years.
ND understands strength of schedule figures in the National Championship playoff argument. it also figures in recruiting. Why would a kid from south georgia (even with great grades) go to ND when his parents will never seem him play and he could go to any number of better schools for athletics within 200 miles? Even more within 300 miles.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:05 pm to Pavoloco83
If SEC schools got to play Army, Navy, Air Force, Purdue, and Temple every year, we'd probably be looking for a legit game or two to add to the schedule too.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:33 pm to TTsTowel
Ill do a home-home series with them, that would be pretty cool
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:50 pm to TTsTowel
I wonder if they will attempt to schedule a home game against A&M at Jerry World or a home game with LSU at the Superdome like they tried with Baylor at Jerry World to get that NBC money.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:08 pm to TTsTowel
I actually think Kelly has them on the right track and will eventually build a great program there. Wanting to play the SEC is a clear sign that they want to get better.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:20 pm to danfraz
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It actually spawned from the 1969 season. LSU had maybe its best team under Cholly Mac and ND basically stole a Cotton Bowl bid from the Tigers.
Scheduled a home/home in early 70's ( ND won first game 3-0 but Tigers basically ruined Joe THeismans Heisman chances shutting him down, Tigers destroyed ND 28-8 in TS behind Bert Jones)
After that both schools realized they had some things in common, deep catholic roots being one and played 6 more regular season games in the 80's and 90's. 2 bowl matchups on top of those eight. It's a good series, would like to see a couple games every ten yrs or so
Thanks for the info. on that.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:25 pm to TheSandman
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Auburn has had an open invitation for a home&home with them for a while now.
Link?
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:28 pm to Ted2010
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Pretty sure they will only play bottom tier sec schools then crow like Oregon did.
pretty much
FWIW, I enjoyed reading this from an Alabama fan when the school in question is Tennessee
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:29 pm to Pavoloco83
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That statement right there is bullshite
No, it isn't.
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Southeastern Conference universities produce tremendous doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, veterinarians and other hard science graduates.
Caribbean medical schools also produce doctors. Cooley Law School in Michigan produces over 500 lawyers per year. Virtually every university in the country has an engineering school. And veterinary medicine is not prestigious.
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Guarant damn Tee you there are more Astronauts from Auburn University than ever went to Notre fricking Dame.
WTF is this shite? Are you retarded? Academic prestige is not measured by the number of astronauts a school has produced. Good grief.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:32 pm to Chronic
Notre Dame would benifit from playing 4-6 SEC programs a year these days. They'd actually toughen up through the grind and be playoff ready each season. Plus the big game SEC experience would be priceless for them. Sign'em up........
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:37 pm to TTsTowel
Auburn has tried to schedule ND a few different times. Every time ND wanted two home games to one at Jordan-Hare...or it was play them at a neutral site for our home game and then go to their house to complete the "home-and-home". Auburn told ND (it has been the same exact way with Michigan also)
Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:38 pm to TTsTowel
We beat Texas' arse. Freeze would rip their a-hole out of their mouths.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:00 pm to Chronic
UT has the body farm and a top rate anthropology dept. We train everyone from Homeland to FBI in forensics and new identification methods. Dr. Bass and his establishment of and research from the body farm revolutionized forensic anthropology.
UT has a top business school as does South Carolina.
UT has a top engineering program and Auburn's is nothing to sneeze at.
UT Law is working its way up the tiers fast.
UT is one of only 5 sun-grant universities (there's one for each region). Cornell is also one which is hardly bad company to keep. Sun-grants work on renewable energy/bio-based energy alternatives.
UT has the world's fastest super-computer (hosted by ORNL).
I could go on and on and don't mean to leave other SEC schools out (I just know less about them).
I've taught kids from the top two Ivies and they're no smarter than UT students.
While US News/Princeton Review etc. is nice to brag about and put on your uni's website to recruit students, academics wouldn't and don't rate schools the same way. The Academe is concerned with very different measures and especially concerned with departments rather than schools as a whole.
ND is a fine institution and has an excellent law school but don't delude yourself into believing that the SEC has 1 academic school. Vandy is lower than others in many areas and higher than other schools in other fields.
Where rich schools excel is in alumni networks and rich kid connections -- nepotism whether it's a frater/soror, school loyalty, or someone you went to school with accounts for the greatest strength of private schools and other 'prestige' schools.
UT has a top business school as does South Carolina.
UT has a top engineering program and Auburn's is nothing to sneeze at.
UT Law is working its way up the tiers fast.
UT is one of only 5 sun-grant universities (there's one for each region). Cornell is also one which is hardly bad company to keep. Sun-grants work on renewable energy/bio-based energy alternatives.
UT has the world's fastest super-computer (hosted by ORNL).
I could go on and on and don't mean to leave other SEC schools out (I just know less about them).
I've taught kids from the top two Ivies and they're no smarter than UT students.
While US News/Princeton Review etc. is nice to brag about and put on your uni's website to recruit students, academics wouldn't and don't rate schools the same way. The Academe is concerned with very different measures and especially concerned with departments rather than schools as a whole.
ND is a fine institution and has an excellent law school but don't delude yourself into believing that the SEC has 1 academic school. Vandy is lower than others in many areas and higher than other schools in other fields.
Where rich schools excel is in alumni networks and rich kid connections -- nepotism whether it's a frater/soror, school loyalty, or someone you went to school with accounts for the greatest strength of private schools and other 'prestige' schools.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:02 pm to TTsTowel
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Which SEC teams wants to kick some more Notre Dame arse?
I would love to see Auburn step up, FWIW.
Back in the 1980's, AU tried to schedule Notre Dame and Penn State.
Those yankee coward POS's wanted no part.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:11 pm to LSUSkip
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Theyll be coming for Vandy or Miss St.
bring em on. I would love to play Notre Dame
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:28 pm to danfraz
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It actually spawned from the 1969 season. LSU had maybe its best team under Cholly Mac and ND basically stole a Cotton Bowl bid from the Tigers.
One of those sports almanacs listed LSU's '69 team as the best team ever to not go to a bowl...of course technically they did get a bowl bid--it's just that it was withdrawn when ND lifted their self-imposed bowl ban and suddenly became available to the Cotton.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:56 pm to AUCE05
I figure they want a better chance to make the playoffs.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 9:00 pm to TTsTowel
We will take it I still heard ND fans saying they would have beaten us last year
Posted on 12/21/13 at 9:19 pm to TTsTowel
The 80's was a long time ago. I doubt they would accept an offer to play us now.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:16 pm to Prof
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UT has the world's fastest super-computer (hosted by ORNL).
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UT is one of only 5 sun-grant universities (there's one for each region). Cornell is also one which is hardly bad company to keep. Sun-grants work on renewable energy/bio-based energy alternatives.
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UT Law is working its way up the tiers fast.
Just stop.
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