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Well, they are made from breast meat.. I think. I've lived off of them from airport Chili's to Go in traveling. I am very low brow. Who would have thunk my boneless wings would be curious to a crowd hanging out at the Boneyard.

businesslawyer said:
You'd ruin that with boneless wings? Really?
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ND has been flexing its muscles of late, cutting a favorable playoff deal as an independent, cutting a favorable ACC deal and telling Michigan to go **** in a hat.

How many schools could do that?

Jack Swarbrick has had a great 4-5 months

Having ND start out 4-0 with a great recruiting class (currently #4 on Rivals) is icing on the cake.


It would not surprise me if ND cancelled all three Big Ten series, at least as yearly games.

Those schools refused to play ND after September.

While other schools opened with FCS schools and teams like Idaho and Louisiana-Lafayette, ND usually played three Big Ten teams in a row to start the year.

ND has the Midwest covered with six home games a year. There is no real need to play Big 10 teams every year.

It will play in the Northeast against Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College and Navy.

ND has the West Coast covered with USC and Stanford. It has games now set up in the Southeast with ACC teams such as Clemson, Miami and FSU.

It has a series with Texas and one with Oklahoma set up. My guess is that it wants more Big 12 games to cover Texas and the Southwest.

They may occasionally take the show up to the Pacific Northwest with games against schools like Washington or Oregon State.

I think ND wants to be able, outside the required ACC games, to schedule teams in recruiting hotbeds and all over the country.

Jettisoning the annual Big Ten games gives ND back a lot of its scheduling flexibility lost by the ACC deal.

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TerryD said:
ND has been flexing its muscles of late, cutting a favorable playoff deal as an independent, cutting a favorable ACC deal and telling Michigan to go **** in a hat.

How many schools could do that?

Jack Swarbrick has had a great 4-5 months

Having ND start out 4-0 with a great recruiting class (currently #4 on Rivals) is icing on the cake.


It would not surprise me if ND cancelled all three Big Ten series, at least as yearly games.

Those schools refused to play ND after September.

While other schools opened with FCS schools and teams like Idaho and Louisiana-Lafayette, ND usually played three Big Ten teams in a row to start the year.

ND has the Midwest covered with six home games a year. There is no real need to play Big 10 teams every year.

It will play in the Northeast against Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College and Navy.

ND has the West Coast covered with USC and Stanford. It has games now set up in the Southeast with ACC teams such as Clemson, Miami and FSU.

It has a series with Texas and one with Oklahoma set up. My guess is that it wants more Big 12 games to cover Texas and the Southwest.

They may occasionally take the show up to the Pacific Northwest with games against schools like Washington or Oregon State.

I think ND wants to be able, outside the required ACC games, to schedule teams in recruiting hotbeds and all over the country.

Jettisoning the annual Big Ten games gives ND back a lot of its scheduling flexibility lost by the ACC deal.
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Thank you for your interest in UConn football. I am assuming this is spam?
 
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TRest said:
Thank you for your interest in UConn football. I am assuming this is spam?
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Isn't this a four page long thread about Notre Dame and its schedule?
 
How messed up the values of all of this is evident by our Notre Dame interloper. "Notre Dame is flexing its muscles". I guess the way we determine winners now is by who gets screwed over and who is doing the screwing.

Although I am quite sure that Michigan will be fine without Notre Dame, the fans are the ones getting screwed here. While the Presidents and ADs will do whatever it takes to get that extra dollar, yet another long standing, traditional rivalry is the casualty all because these guys keep trying to get into a better country club I always thought college football was about tradition and history. Evidently not.
 
The ND head coach still sent a kid to his death and got away scott free.
 
Reason #1001 why all of college football - the BCS/Power Conferences anyway - should bring ND to it's knees until such time as it forced into a conference for football too. Boycott them.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Reason #1001 why all of college football - the BCS/Power Conferences anyway - should bring ND to it's knees until such time as it forced into a conference for football too. Boycott them.
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TDH: if your goal is to prove to this board that persistence is not always a virtue -- well, I've got to hand it to you.
 
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businesslawyer said:
TDH: if your goal is to prove to this board that persistence is not always a virtue -- well, I've got to hand it to you.
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lol, it's gone well beyond simply not being a virtue biz.........
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Reason #1001 why all of college football - the BCS/Power Conferences anyway - should bring ND to it's knees until such time as it forced into a conference for football too. Boycott them.
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Boycott...? There's tha word again. Hey, by any chance were you on Des' Football Chat yesterday??
 
The reason this is a fairly interesting deal is that if ND were staying at a 5 game ACC schedule, there'd be no reason to opt out of the Michigan game, they'd have plenty of room in their 7 OOC games for it.
5 ACC
2 USC/Navy - these games will NOT end
1 Shamrock Series
1 Michigan
1 MSU
1 or 2 Purdue and/or Stanford (also can be Shamrock game)
1 (if necessary) other big conference opponent, or lower BCS team if the rest is chock full of high powered teams.

Where's the reason here to drop Michigan? To replace them with who? They've got all of their rivalry games, they've got their neutral site game, and they've got their 5 ACC games.

They play Purdue and Stanford somewhat sporadically, mostly because Purdue sucks and most years Stanford has sucked. Only reasonable answer is more ACC games.

8-9 ACC
2 USC/Navy
1 Shamrock Series
1 Rotating MSU/Michigan/Purdue/Stanford (or play one of these in the Shamrock game)

This really is the only plausible reason why they'd back out of the current Michigan contract.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
The reason this is a fairly interesting deal is that if ND were staying at a 5 game ACC schedule, there'd be no reason to opt out of the Michigan game, they'd have plenty of room in their 7 OOC games for it.
5 ACC
2 USC/Navy - these games will NOT end
1 Shamrock Series
1 Michigan
1 MSU
1 or 2 Purdue and/or Stanford (also can be Shamrock game)
1 (if necessary) other big conference opponent, or lower BCS team if the rest is chock full of high powered teams.

Where's the reason here to drop Michigan? To replace them with who? They've got all of their rivalry games, they've got their neutral site game, and they've got their 5 ACC games.

They play Purdue and Stanford somewhat sporadically, mostly because Purdue sucks and most years Stanford has sucked. Only reasonable answer is more ACC games.

8-9 ACC
2 USC/Navy
1 Shamrock Series
1 Rotating MSU/Michigan/Purdue/Stanford (or play one of these in the Shamrock game)

This really is the only plausible reason why they'd back out of the current Michigan contract.
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My understanding is that they want a West coast game every year, so they keep Stanford to alternate with USC. I'm sure TerryD will post 5 pages from their public relations department to expound upon this strategy and why it is indicative of ND's excellence in the 21st century.
 
TRest said:
My understanding is that they want a West coast game every year, so they keep Stanford to alternate with USC. I'm sure TerryD will post 5 pages from their public relations department to expound upon this strategy and why it is indicative of ND's excellence in the 21st century.
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They will play USC every year unless the world explodes. If the world explodes, they'll still play Navy. A good friend of mine is very, very tied into ND sports (not an insider with realignment stuff), multiple family members played football for ND over generations, and he unequivocally told me if they stopped playing either of those two schools, the alumni would riot and tear down the golden dome and TD Jesus. Ironically, next on his list of must-have games was Michigan. I do see the west coast thing, but thats the purpose of the Shamrock Series. If they're playing 5 ACC games only, I cannot see how they drop Michigan in favor of anything.
 
The plausible reason to drop Michigan is that they don't play them at home every year and have to actually go to Ann Arbor. Replacing Michigan with a team that will play in South Bend or at a neutral site with Notre Dame as the home team may be important now as they are on the hook to play some road games now.
 
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businesslawyer said:
TDH: if your goal is to prove to this board that persistence is not always a virtue -- well, I've got to hand it to you.
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And if your goal is to prove to this board that attacking poster IS a virtue (as oppose to simply posting to the contrary) because - heck, if you think otherwise then there is no other opinion worthy of being posted - well, the you can go "hand it" to yourself in the same manner that Notre Dame does it's associates in college athletics . :rolleyes::cool:
 
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