Yet Another Reason To Hate Notre Dame

This time of year I kind of get tunnel vision.  By tunnel vision I mean that I become obsessed with college football.  BIG 10 football and Notre Dame football are the acme of my obsession.  Growing up in the Midwest all there was to do in the fall was eat cheese, drink beer, and hate on ND.  No one does this better than my 81 year old Grandfather.  My Grandfather bleeds black and gold.  Mr. BILL is proud to be Purdue grad.  So proud that he flies a Purdue flag in front of his house.  I can only imagine how pissed he is going to be when he finds out that Notre Dame is no longer going to play his beloved Boilermakers every year in football.  I came across the announcement here.  It sent shivers up and down my spine.  You can't just decide not to play Michigan State and Purdue-that is just wrong.  That is like having a vegan Thanksgiving.
This is one of the many reasons why people hate Notre Dame.  Notre Dame football fans are the worst.  They are the most arrogant people to walk the face of the Earth.  They think it's their God given right to be ranked in the preseason top 25 every year.  ND fans always demand a BCS Bowl bid even though they play the weakest schedule of any D1 team.  They play all three of the service academies-give me a fucking break.  You can't play Army and go to a BCS Bowl.  Notre Dame should just join the Big 10 already and play a real football schedule that includes Ohio State and Wisconsin.

Comments

[Junior]

You sure are a hater. You hate Notre Dame, you hate Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I bet you're going to tell me you hate fruitcake, next. Or Duran Duran.

Hater.

(That's okay, I hate fruitcake, too.)

[MN Irish]

Allow me to rephrase your last paragraph:

"This is one of the many reasons why people despise Notre Dame haters. Notre Dame haters are the worst. They are the most idiotic people to walk the face of the earth. There is no ND fan who expects to be ranked in the preseason top 25 every year. That has to be earned. There is no ND fan that demands to be in a BCS Bowl. Is that a performance-based expectation? Of course. But a God-given right? Certainly not; that's something to be earned (as much as a BCS bowl bid can be "earned"). They play one of the toughest schedules of any D1 team (check it, 10 bowl teams in 2007). You can't play Tulane (ahem, LSU) or Youngstown St. (ahem, Ohio St.) and go to the BCS Championship." Notre Dame should play a real schedule because apparently joining the Big Ten and adding on Indiana, Northwestern, and Minnesota would really bolster ND's SOS better than USC, Georgia Tech, and even Navy."

In summary, your post is so blindingly jaded for a number of reasons, but the most important one is follows: most ND fans DO NOT WANT TO DROP MICHIGAN ST. AND PURDUE. No, that would be a wonderful side effect of our ex-A.D. and his brillant 7-4-1 scheduling philosophy, as if you can really convince any big name opponents to play you without a home-and-home. Personally, I have a good amount of ill-will towards both PU and MSU and therefore I would like to play them every year. Furthermore, I would rather go 6-6 against USC, Michigan, Alabama, and Tennesse, than play in the National Championship following a schedule that made the rounds of the Ohio mid-majors (as I ahem'd before, Ohio St.). So quit your pissing and moaning about ND being a bunch of cowards. There is practically no one in major college football who plays a real schedule, and at least the Irish don't schedule I-AA schools. Hopefully now that we have a Domer steering the ship we'll get back to a much more true-to-life version of Rockne's barnstorming as opposed to playing Wazzu in San Antonio. And just to make the final point, it's not ALL about money, because if it were there would be a Jumbotron and a hundred ads in Notre Dame Stadium. It's about tradition, plain and simple. Which is why this year's home opener against San Diego St. makes me so mad.