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Why Notre Dame has it so easy
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:14 am
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:14 am
Five teams have to perform this weekend. Notre Dame has to just sit back and watch. And for all those ND assholes that for some reason feel the need to post an LSU message board well facts are facts. Go google your strength of schedule
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Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:16 am to Morty
meh. it helps them this year. i can also totally see situations in the future where it can hurt them. really doesnt bother me all that much
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:17 am to Morty
If Notre Dame had a loss, they'd be watching everyone else play their way in ahead of them. They have to be perfect damn near every year to get in.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:21 am to Morty
Considering Clemson and Bama would still be in if they lost, I'd say it's a wash
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:25 am to WestCoastAg
Everything about yankee baylor bothers me greatly.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:32 am to TbirdSpur2010
Why, because Notre Dame is America’s team with a national fan base?
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:33 am to Paul Allen
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Notre Dame is America’s team
Because of blasphemy like this.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:34 am to Paul Allen
quote:Congrats on being on the radio when most healthy young men were fighting in WW2
Why, because Notre Dame is America’s team with a national fan base?
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:37 am to genro
Schools like A&M were out there contributing to the war effort while the frozen freakshows in bumfrick indiana were playing games 
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:37 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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If Notre Dame had a loss, they'd be watching everyone else play their way in ahead of them. They have to be perfect damn near every year to get in.
Exactly. People can say what they want about their schedule, but they went undefeated. They have every damn right to be in the playoff. Can't ask for much more than that.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:43 am to TbirdSpur2010
Notre Dame claims the 1943 National Championship. Alabama didn't even field a team due to the war
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:48 am to Morty
quote:*Chose to
have to
Conference membership and conference championship games are voluntary and not required. Assuming all favorites win this weekend and you give ND an arbitrary 0-12 notch onto their SOS, the old BCS system has ND’s SOS ranked #10.
When you posted this, you were uninformed.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 1:51 am to genro
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Congrats on being on the radio when most healthy young men were fighting in WW2
Goddamn that’s a sick burn. 
Posted on 11/28/18 at 2:01 am to Morty
They lucked out that teams like Stanford Florida St were middling this year. They scheduled a difficult schedule on paper, but it didnt materialize.
They deserve to be in the playoff. They may get crushed, but you can't exclude them.
They deserve to be in the playoff. They may get crushed, but you can't exclude them.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 2:27 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:Yet somehow A&M was also able to field teams throughout the duration of WW2, specifically in 1943 when a bunch of the SEC teams has to cancel football due to a lack of players.
Schools like A&M were out there contributing to the war effort while the frozen freakshows in bumfrick indiana were playing games
You guys even improved in your 4-5-1 record with a 7-2-1 record, tied for the 30th best win percentage in your school’s 116th year history. Meanwhile OSU, coming off a national championship 9-1 season, lost so many players that season, and had send the great Paul Brown off with a 3-6 record, the 2nd worst season in history before following up with a runner-up and 9-0 record.
So the War seemed to give A&M a bit of boost in their overall history. Some sacrifice.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 2:35 am to Morty
Ok so what about the weeks where Bama Clemson etc played the Citadel while ND actually had to perform?
Posted on 11/28/18 at 2:39 am to genro
quote:Joking aside, this has led me to some info that quite interesting and the ability to field a team in that 1943 season may actually have saved the University itself.
Congrats on being on the radio when most healthy young men were fighting in WW2
How Navy saved Notre Dame after World War II – the team’s shared histories
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Without Navy, Notre Dame may not still exist. In spite of its on field success, Notre Dame fell on hard times in World War II. The school’s population dwindled to a depression era number of 2,623 students in 1943 and a 20 percent reduction in five years led to stark financial problems for the school.
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Then the Navy came to Notre Dame’s rescue.
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According to Notre Dame president Hugh O’Donnell, the school “offered all of the facilities of this institution to the government. In April of 1943 the V-7 Indoctrination School was created and the first group of 900 men, all college graduates enlisted for one month as apprentice seamen.”
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The late Notre Dame Vice President, Emeritus Joyce, also shared the same sentiments of Navy’s importance to the school. "All I can say is without the Navy during the war, this institution would have gotten down to a few hundred students.
quote:It’s just crazy to compare today to those times, and think that the manpower needed to support a war War being able to cancel relatively meaningless college sport (at least from a wins and losses perspective) but potentially cause great institutions to shut down entirely (at least temporarily).
"Instead of that, we were almost twice our normal size during the war, and we were able to contribute something to the Navy."
Posted on 11/28/18 at 5:06 am to Morty
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Five teams have to perform this weekend. Notre Dame has to just sit back and watch. And for all those ND assholes that for some reason feel the need to post an LSU message board well facts are facts. Go google your strength of schedule
Well this time last year there was a team with 1 loss that did not have to perform on Championship weekend yet still got into the playoff. That team...Alabama!!
Posted on 11/28/18 at 5:35 am to Morty
It's why they should be required to participate fully in the ACC if they are going to use them as their quasi conference.
Not that it matters, they will get drilled by any of the other 3, but it does leave out a deserving team this way which sucks.
Not that it matters, they will get drilled by any of the other 3, but it does leave out a deserving team this way which sucks.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 6:09 am to genro
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