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FUCK NOTRE DAME......

Notre Dame is the biggest piece of shit on the face of college football scheduling. They try to get the toughest teams of the schedule just to make higher bowl games. They have no balls because they know damn well that they will get their asses wasted by Michigan forever. They are the shits of college athletics.

Michigan has no balls. If they want to keep playing the football powerhouse that is Notre Dame, they should realize that Notre Dame has no wiggle room and concede a few home games to Notre Dame. After last year's result, you guys shouldn't have a problem with that. If Michigan doesn't want to cooperate, they don't get the mega Money and exposure that would come with a game against the best team in the land.

Michigan, and especially while Bo was alive, has wanted out of this serires for a long time. Lloyd and Billy Boy are afraid of Notre Dame. UM puts too much into it, and in the rare event UM beats them, they often come up flat the next week.
This game will obviously be filled by another directional Michigan school by UM (Joke: How do you know there's no such thing as Southern Michigan? Because Michigan doesn;t play them), or possibly Northern Appalahcian State.

Whatever, now UM can schedule relevent colleges.

ND needs to dump Navy you can't even call that a "longstanding rivalry" anymore. Somehow ND gets into the higher bowl games and gets plastered worse than Michigan does.

Michigan has no balls. If they want to keep playing the football powerhouse that is Notre Dame, they should realize that Notre Dame has no wiggle room and concede a few home games to Notre Dame. After last year's result, you guys shouldn't have a problem with that. If Michigan doesn't want to cooperate, they don't get the mega Money and exposure that would come with a game against the best team in the land.

When exactly were they the best team in the land? Freaking Michigan State owns Notre Dame. I think they've won like 7 of the last 10 against them. Take it from me as a State fan, if MSU football owns you, you should be embarrassed. I actually have a little love for Notre Dame in terms of history and prestige, but let's face it...they can't beat the big boys. They get more media coverage than any team in the country, then they play a top team and get waxed. I'd pipe down until they at least win one big game.

Whenever Notre Dame comes up, I get irritated by the double standard of independent univesities. The NCAA should instruct all institutions that if they want to participate in intercollegiate athletics, they must be affiliated with a conference in that sport. Anything else is a double standard.

It would be in their favor to join the big east like they did in basketball. I'm surprised they haven't because it is such an easy schedule.

It would be in their favor to join the big east like they did in basketball. I'm surprised they haven't because it is such an easy schedule.

NBC TV contract, don't have to share bowl or other revenues with other conference members.

It's a sweetheart deal, but I still fucking hate them.

You gotta admire Notre Dame's balls though. Sports fans across the nation, networks, and conferences beg Notre Dame to fuck them in the ass, and they just goddamm go right ahead and do it, knowing that we'll all light their cigarette for them afterward.
Everyone says they hate them, but everyone watches 'em, the players go there, and the networks would KILL to trade places with NBC for their broadcast rights.

ND did not dump UM btw.

The fact is that UM wanted ND to get on their schedule of playing OSU at home one year and ND the next. ND didnt want to so they decided not to play games. ND did not want to because then they would have UM and USC as either 2 road or home games every year.

If you think this series will get renewed any time soon, I dont think so.

ND will be a 7-5, 8-4 team with their schedule. They could easily be 4-8 too depending on how they get off the snide.

I don't see a big loss here with ND being off the schedule. I just hope Martin fills it with something other than a MAC or 1-AA team.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2948275

I suspect Texas and some ACC teams are teams that are being looked at since we do not really play them too much in bowl games.

Michigan and ND just reached an agreement on a 20 year extension of the rivalry from 2012-2031. (2031, WTF?!) I guess we'll miss 2011, but I'll be watching the Wolverines pound the Irish when I'm 51 years old.

http://mgoblue.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=25046

Per MGOBLOG

ND and UM reupped to continue playing for another I am shocked this happened unless ND agreed to what UM wanted.

Have to wait and see what it is about.

Seems as if me Moodini are on the same page.

Seems as if me Moodini are on the same page.

You know it Art! Art, you're my boy!

Jim Carty of the Ann Arbor News speculates that the 2 year void will be filled by one of the three following teams, most likely:
Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. He cites that those three are in markets that UM doesn't currently compete (scratching Florida and California teams due to bowl games) and all three are in large markets with a good UM alumni base.