JohnboyND7

Not a better school. The quality of education is basically identical other than marginal differences and obviously each have programs that the other does not. But yes, people are nuts. Wish we were a single school, we'd be in the Big 12 now.

this is funny in a few ways that I don't think you have the intellect to comprehend.

Lol if you have to call yourself the flagship you probably arent.

The NCAA is getting pushed around by courts. Its not a shock that they are being fairly deferential.

I think the sixth year thing should be subsiding now. Covid season *should* be out of the system now. I think a lot of the sixth year guys had taken advantage of that. I think the NCAA should just do a blanket "five years to play four seasons" rule. You get a redshirt if you want. No waivers. At all. If you can't play four seasons in five years due to injury, I'm sorry but that is life. Its time to get a job at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Morgantown - "Take Me Home, Country Roads" LSU - "Callin' Baton Rouge" Alabama - "Dixieland Delight" Tennessee - "Rocky Top" Minnesota - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

I knew Michigan was very insecure and doesnt respond well to Notre Dame getting headlines but what the heck lmaooo

There is maybe 5 or 6 bluebloods. Notre Dame isn't more important than the others. If Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, Alabama, or USC want to go independent, I'm sure rules would be put in place to address that as well. There are plenty of reasons people don't like Notre Dame. The world revolving around them isn't one of them, no matter what people try to claim lmao.

Conference championship games should be gone. You play about half the teams in your conference now. Its a total crapshoot.

"make college football a !@#!$ knockoff version of the NFL" is not a winning formula lmao

What are you talking about?

Past performance? Brother they made the national championship game last year.

Eh, financially sure. There is much to be desired there but it is the brand so it is what it is.

They finished with a higher strength of schedule than multiple p4 at-large playoff teams this year, with a relatively down schedule. The issue regarding a conference is not having other schools shill on your behalf (for their benefit and your own, appearances mean money). In the case of the SEC and ACC, they also happen to be TV partners with ESPN...you can take a guess who they want in the playoffs lol

I do trust my eyes lmao

Do you know how old the guys are who played in those games are now? At the old end, about 35. At the young end, like 24 lol

Yes lol I'm pretty sure. The AP, the coaches, all the different statistical rankings, and even the committee would have Notre Dame at 10-2 or better against that schedule lol

Not really. They lost by 60 points.

It really isn't

In 2023, Florida State had twenty plus players opt out of their bowl game after an undefeated season. Most of them werent starters. It seems petty clear this is probably going to be a thing moving forward.

The number of guys sitting out is going up. The number of teams choosing not to play is going up. Why ask a question when the answer is in front of you?

This sounds rather quaint but it doesn't seem like that's reality on the ground.

It is indeed happening. And it should.

The collapse has been ongoing for years and people have just been going through the motions. Once the 4-team playoff started, it started dying. When McCaffrey sat out the bowl game people squealed about quitting on the team, it started dying more. Now, its just common knowledge that even projected day 2 and day 3 guys may not play because they don't want to get hurt in an exhibition game. Every year when SEC teams lose bowl games, the narrative is "well they just didn't care." Tons of guys are announcing intention to transfer now. Now that there is a playoff, teams who had legit aspirations of making it to the playoff are not going to want to play. Its like going to the NIT or one of the other consolation tournaments in basketball. Notre Dame (and others) are just acknowledging that the games don't matter anymore and they are not going to pretend otherwise. The NCAA would do well to just let teams sit at home and have a couple weeks of practice if they want.

I think the beef is that Notre Dame has basically stabilized the ACC for the last decade so pushing them away has consequences (very plausibly complete implosion). Clemson must have an inkling that ND is getting tired of dealing with the ACC, would explain their twelve game series the two signed earlier this year.