It didn't take long for Notre Dame….

[Limbo Land]

To start complaining about their sweetheart deal with the ACC. This will be fun to watch implode and the take of for the next best thing. But you reap what you sow...

http://msn.foxsports.com/college-fo...s-puts-football-in-tough-schedule-spot-052114

 

[billybud]

Just the standard lamenting of lost traditional rivalries.....I see little other than that.

 

[StevieDude]

^ I though this troll left

 

[Limbo Land]

Well then I don't want to hear about it… they made their deal so suck it up. But I am sorry this is just like when they were in the Big East and they would say something they wanted and the Big East to bend over backwards for them. History will repeat itself.

 

[billybud]

^ I though this troll left

I realize that one must slavishly intone the board narrative or bear the slings and arrows, etc...so I tend to give my thoughts in small doses...and then retire from the lists for a few jousts.

 

[FDNY99]

Just the standard lamenting of lost traditional rivalries.....I see little other than that.

Billy...unfortunately you are just seeing the beginning of this act with ND. This will continue from Kelly...and pretty soon Brey & McGraw start to chime in. I wish the ACC luck with them...they are gonna need it.

 

[SAMCRO]

Billy...unfortunately you are just seeing the beginning of this act with ND. This will continue from Kelly...and pretty soon Brey & McGraw start to chime in. I wish the ACC luck with them...they are gonna need it.

Yup, I've seen this movie before. Can't wait until the Gator Bowl or Russell Athletic Bowl select ND over an ACC team with an equal or 1 game better record.

 

[Dooley]

Notre Dame is like the 5 year old who keeps saying and doing things to see how much they can get away with. ND temper tantrums are as predictable as the sun rising and setting every day. The Big East was a pushover parent and, by the looks of it, the ACC will be too.

 

[whaler11]

Isn't this just Notre Dame framing reasons why they aren't going to play Michigan? I thought it ended because they didn't want to.

 

[JayRU09]

Thought this was going to be about Notre Dame having a home game in Boston. Against Boston College.

 

[Yawkey Way]

Just the standard lamenting of lost traditional rivalries.....I see little other than that.

ND saw all the realighnments taking place all around them. They then panicked and joined the ACC in all sports, and committed almost half their football schedule for years into the future to the ACC... and bypassed the BIG for Hockey, and sought ( and were approved ) membership in Hockey East. Now, Kelly bemoans the loss of BIG teams on his schedule. Well, what a shame ( haha!)

 

[Kolumbo]

ND insists on remaining independent but is now obligated to play virtually a Big-ACC-East schedule, basically the merger of the two weakest power conference. That's a shame.

 

[Yawkey Way]

Thought this was going to be about Notre Dame having a home game in Boston. Against Boston College.

BC will play ND anywhere, anytime, it wants to play. South Bend, Fenway Park, Chicago, NYC, Hartford, Cape Cod, Ireland, Kelly's house, Addazio's house, etc. ND can even pick the spot they want in order to make it happen.

 

[JayRU09]

Seriously though........what self respecting program would agree to an away game in the city your program is based in?

 

[Dooley]

Seriously though...what self respecting program would agree to an away game in the city your program is based in?

Let's be honest, ND has a much bigger presence in Boston than BC does. ND has a ton of alumni in the northeast and that's part of the reason why these two partner up so often.

 

[JayRU09]

They tried to pull that crap with us. They wanted a 2v1 deal I believe where our 'one' would be at MetLife and they would get the half of the gate. We told them to get out. I can't wait, ten to twenty more years and 80% of their fans will be dead.

 

[Yawkey Way]

Seriously though...what self respecting program would agree to an away game in the city your program is based in?

BC. ( and Uconn ) for starters.

They would probably make no other consideration with any other national program than with that of ND. This is afterall, ND. BC has done lots of home and away with's ND, and will do so in the future. BC suggesting to ND to have a BC game with ND at Fenway Park is what got ND back to the table with BC . ND does have a lot of fans in New England too lets not forget. So if they want to call, it a " home game " thats fine. Its not an " away game for BC" if you play it off campus less than 5 miles from your campus. They can call it anything they want, imo... so long as the game is played in Boston, which was the key to the whole agreement between the 2 schools for the game in the first place. Uconn would make this deal in a heartbeat too if they could. They'd be perfectly fine playing ND at the Yale Bowl ( or Fenway Park ) and letting ND call it a " home game " for themselves if that got it done, as you know that such a game played anywhere with ND beats playing more than half the teams on your current schedule ( same as BC in this respect too ).

 

[Sportsman5]

They tried to pull that crap with us. They wanted a 2v1 deal I believe where our 'one' would be at MetLife and they would get the half of the gate. We told them to get out. I can't wait, ten to twenty more years and 80% of their fans will be dead.

that's a bit harsh, but it is pretty accurate

 

[Stinger92860]

that's a bit harsh, but it is pretty accurate

Ok, 75%

 

[clmssun]

Seriously though...what self respecting program would agree to an away game in the city your program is based in?

So who exploited whom?

 

[JayRU09]

So who exploited whom?

Notre Dame. They're getting the majority of the money from a game in another team's home town.

 

[Yawkey Way]

So who exploited whom?

Neither, imo. But when BC beats ND at Fenway Park in Boston, the Domers will not only suffer defeat in Boston, but under their own self described definition, they will have lost a " home game " to BC. Sounds fine all around to me.

 

[Sea Goat]

BC. ( and Uconn ) for starters.

They would probably make no other consideration with any other national program than with that of ND. This is afterall, ND. BC has done lots of home and away with's ND, and will do so in the future. BC suggesting to ND to have a BC game with ND at Fenway Park is what got ND back to the table with BC . ND does have a lot of fans in New England too lets not forget. So if they want to call, it a " home game " thats fine. Its not an " away game for BC" if you play it off campus less than 5 miles from your campus. They can call it anything they want, imo... so long as the game is played in Boston, which was the key to the whole agreement between the 2 schools for the game in the first place. Uconn would make this deal in a heartbeat too if they could. They'd be perfectly fine playing ND at the Yale Bowl ( or Fenway Park ) and letting ND call it a " home game " for themselves if that got it done, as you know that such a game played anywhere with ND beats playing more than half the teams on your current schedule ( same as BC in this respect too ).

The real reason for this is because nobody in Boston gives a about BC football or basketball or... (anything but hockey)

 

[Yawkey Way]

Notre Dame. They're getting the majority of the money from a game in another team's home town.

Oh please.. the financial return to BC for this game trumps most all other game financial returns that BC( or even Uconn) receives in most other games they play during their season.

 

[JayRU09]

You must feel proud then. Being another team's patsy. Come on dude there is NO way to spin this as a positive. Another team scheduled a home game in your hometown, AGAINST YOU.