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9 Responses to “Would You Rather”

1. JVH Says:
   November 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   I just got this email today:

   “If I was appointed AD, I would change the scheduling philosophy such that we only play at home or in cool places. That’s all I really care about.

   I mean, who the F wants to go to East Lansing or West Lafayette for anything like that, ever. We should play all of our road games in major cities which are fun to go to, and I don’t give a shit who the opponent is. And yes, I realize this is unreasonable and impossible, but it would be awesome to be figuring if we wanted to meet at the game in New Orleans or Phoenix or Seattle or Atlanta or Dallas. Now that would be some shit I can get excited about.”

2. Irish_Wertzy Says:
   November 6th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

   I guess I want a balance. I want an Oklahoma or Texas or Miami or Clemson or hell even Florida on our schedule as one of our “out-of-conference” games.

   For us, I consider the following our “conference games” as they have historical significance with the school:
   USC
   Michigan
   MSU
   Navy
   Stanford
   Purdue

   That’s three home, three away with 3 B10 teams, 2 PAC10 teams

   Add in two Big East Teams, that’s 1 home, 1 away each year

   Add in another home and home series with a Big12/SEC/ACC Opponent
   That’s another 1 home, 1 away each year

   Then schedule a single game neutral site game in a high recruiting area against a mid-to-high level BCS conference team. Feel free to have it be a Florida team (but not in Florida). Feel free to have a B12 team, just make the terms more acceptable to the visiting team if they are a higher caliber team.

   Then, add in a home game on opening weekend against a reasonable opponent (WAC/MWC/MAC/CUSA etc)
   that is a 6-5-1 breakdown. That will make 6 home games not 7, which will make tickets more of a premium

3. Irish in the Hammer Says:
   November 6th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

   I live in Canada…Steeltown, Hamilton, ON (aka the Hammer) and I’m in favour of scheduling games that keep the Fighting Irish being broadcast on one of the big three networks. Why?

   ESPN isn’t “allowed” here in Canada due our governmental broadcast regulations and I can’t stand trying to follow on the web casts (ie. Justintv etc.) except for the NBC one…what happened to that anyway? (After USC it seems to have disappeared.)

   By playing more home and home series with more BCS teams (esp. SEC, Pac10 and B12), we’ll be available every Sat. via ABC and CBS too! Tell me that the SEC game of the week featuring ND vs. almost anyone, won’t get priority over Florida whupping St. Mother-Mary-Holy-Water High’s JV flag football team. (Sorry UF…but the Citadel *and* Charleston Southern…I mean really?)

   Anyway, hoorah for over the air broadcasts of ND football. Let’s aim to see Ole Miss, Arkansas, USC (Spurrier’s guys), (hell even Vandy!), Washington (again), Oregon State, UCLA (again), Nebraska, Kansas, TAMU, Baylor (I think that TX is fertile recruiting grounds) etc. etc. I’m sure that with some effort (and more flexibility!) Swarbrick can start signing up those H and H series with some more far flung and interesting teams.

   Come on ND, let’s get on a plane to play a game a few more times each year! That would be more like “barnstorming”. Heck, why not try to get a game in the Rogers Centre in Toronto (home of the International Bowl) with U of Buffalo for crying out loud! I’m sure they’d jump at the chance and you could draw from a huge radius (S. Ontario=5 million people, Detroit 3-4 hrs away, Buffalo 1-2 hours away, even NYC is a short flight away!) Hey it works for Broadway style theatre shows…we bus ‘em in from all over the place!

   Anyway…Go Irish! Beat (with respect of course!) Navy!

4. Irish_Wertzy Says:
   November 6th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

   I “Blame Canada”

5. DagerOne Says:
   November 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   I’m with Wertz (his first post, not his second…I kind of like Canada). Though I don’t know that I care to have MSU on the schedule every year, nor Purdue. I think I’d rather have alternating home-and-homes with both of those schools…one in place of the other. I wouldn’t even mind a home-and-home against a MAC school for variety once in a while, but have it be Miami (OH) played in Paul Brown Stadium, or Ball State at Lucas Oil Field, e.g. for their “home” games. And I want an SEC school in the mix. It doesn’t have to be LSU or Florida, but I’d welcome a South Carolina or Kentucky-type matchup.

6. Irishman Says:
   November 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

   I would like to join conference USA

7. Divotfiller Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 3:58 am

   How about Boise St., just a thought.

8. ShakeDownTheThunder Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 7:09 am

   If we can’t score on Navy with two Heisman trophy candidates on offense, who really cares about the damn schedule.

9. JVH Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 7:47 am

   Let’s just shut down the whole program. Seriously, WTF was that!?

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