sleeper wrote: Notre Dame is an arrogant program who thinks they are too good for the Papajohns.com bowl. Guess what Irish fans? That's all you're good enough for, be lucky you even get that.

There not even good enough for that bowl game.

jordo212000 wrote: [I think this is ridiculous. I need to get whoever negotiated that deal for Notre Dame to be my lawyer/agent.

Well it pissed alot of ND alumni and supporters off that they accepted that deal. Former AD, Kevin White orchestrated the whole thing and couple that with the weak schedule he put in place, it was clear to me that in his eyes mediocrity was OK at ND. Personally I would have like to seen the program make a real push to return to prominence and pocket all the cash from a BCS bowl appearance but leave it to White to totally screw it up, along with just about every other decision he made.

rock_knutne wrote: LMAO at some the posts on here. That's right, ND is popular enough to the point that they can pick and choose what bowl they want to go to or even reject an offer with a 6-6 record. I know they suck and they're overrated but guess what, they are the only school that can have this scenario because they are college football's biggest attraction even in their current state of chaos. I know that pisses some of you off but it's reality.

The only school? Wow, you are absolutely delusional.

Ohio State, USC, Michigan, Florida, etc, any big time college football program/state school can make this decision, but won't because they aren't full of arrogant assholes like ND.

Maybe Joe Montana can come back with Rocket Ismail.

rock_knutne wrote: LMAO at some the posts on here. That's right, ND is popular enough to the point that they can pick and choose what bowl they want to go to or even reject an offer with a 6-6 record. I know they suck and they're overrated but guess what, they are the only school that can have this scenario because they are college football's biggest attraction even in their current state of chaos. I know that pisses some of you off but it's reality.

Their the biggest attraction because everyone loves watching this train wreck of a program fall apart.

Also, any team can decline a bowl bid its not like ND is some god. But who would want a storied program playing in a .Com bowl.

Are you really going to call non-Ohio State fans arrogant? Jesus fucking Christ! Look at your signature! "Leading America to Excellence" reeks of arrogance. It may be the best school in Ohio (and I'm getting a quality free education here) but it's not Harvard. And don't get me started with the whole THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY bit. Do you really need the "the?"

I go to Ohio State, they're all a bunch of arrogant pricks! I've seen little more than humility from the Notre Dame posters on freehuddle.com. You are an absolute joke.

They will lose their NBC contract before long.

sleeper wrote:The only school? Wow, you are absolutely delusional.

Ohio State, USC, Michigan, Florida, etc, any big time college football program/state school can make this decision, but won't because they aren't full of arrogant assholes like ND.

You're so full of shit I can smell it from here. ND is the ONLY school that has that luxury, the only one!

sjmvsfscs08 wrote: Are you really going to call non-Ohio State fans arrogant? I mean Jesus fucking Christ! Look at your signature!

I go to Ohio State, they're all a bunch of arrogant pricks! I've seen little more than humility from the Notre Dame posters on freehuddle.com. You are an absolute joke.

It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

sigh.......

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

sjmvsfscs08 wrote:

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

Uhh, what did he say that wasn't true. Check some of the ND posters that believe ND is the best program in the nation, well where the hell are the results?

Show me some posts in which a true Notre Dame fan said "Notre Dame is the best program in nation."

I'll wait. I have Latin at 5:30 so I have the free time.

sjmvsfscs08 wrote:

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

Ohio State fans are very humble, you've seen these boards after Ohio State shuts a team out! We trash our team if our WINS aren't good enough, so you can imagine what we'd be like if Ohio State was having 3-9/6-6 seasons and being very average. ND fans don't work like that, they have terrible after terrible season and keep acting like they are any good, claiming BCS appearances, National Title contention, Heismans year after year(Clausen/Tate anyone?). That is the difference, and that is why no one likes ND, not because they are good or that people are jealous, it's their fans who don't know how to take a slice of humble pie.

Rock is wrong again. How is nd the "only" team that can reject a bowl invite?

Btw, I don't expect an answer.

devil1197 wrote:

sjmvsfscs08 wrote:

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

Uhh, what did he say that wasn't true. Check some of the ND posters that believe ND is the best program in the nation, well where the hell are the results?

Can you give an example of a ND fan saying they are the best program in the country?

dat dude wrote: Rock is wrong again. How is nd the "only" team that can reject a bowl invite?

Btw, I don't expect an answer.

At 6-6, yeah they're the only school in the country that has the luxury to pick and choose from what bowl games come their way, if they even want to accept. What other 6-6 teams out there are going to get multiple bowl invites?

Some of you are so dense it's not funny.

The problem for Notre Dame is that they have very few bowl tie-ins since they aren't in a conference. They have an affiliation with the BCS and the Gator Bowl, and I believe that's all and they haven't qualified for either of those. This means that they would have to be selected either by a bowl which only has an affiliation with one conference (which wouldn't be a very good bowl game) or fill a spot vacated by a conference that doesn't have enough eligible teams to fill all of its bowl slots (which also wouldn't be a very good bowl). So honestly, it may be better for them to stay home rather than play in a cold-weather city on December 26 against a seeming lesser team who could actually beat them and send them out with 5 straight losses and a losing record. I completely understand why the team would consider sitting it out.

sjmvsfscs08 wrote: Show me some posts in which a true Notre Dame fan said "Notre Dame is the best program in nation."

I'll wait. I have Latin at 5:30 so I have the free time.

Rock or whatever his name is trying to still claim that ND is the best program in the nation based on the attention they get even when they are playing poorly. He acts like ND is some great program, well it was 20+ years ago not now. Their program is terrible.

Soda Popinski wrote:

devil1197 wrote:

sjmvsfscs08 wrote:

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

Uhh, what did he say that wasn't true. Check some of the ND posters that believe ND is the best program in the nation, well where the hell are the results?

Can you give an example of a ND fan saying they are the best program in the country?

Lou Holtz

Any 6-6 team can reject a bowl bid, not just beloved nd.

Fly4Fun wrote:

Soda Popinski wrote:

devil1197 wrote:

sjmvsfscs08 wrote:

sleeper wrote: It's one thing to be arrogant and back it up with results, its another thing to be Notre Dame.

You are one sad individual, and a prime example of why, even though I attend Ohio State, I absolutely cannot stand the people so god damn infatuated with them. Have some fucking humility.

Uhh, what did he say that wasn't true. Check some of the ND posters that believe ND is the best program in the nation, well where the hell are the results?

Can you give an example of a ND fan saying they are the best program in the country?

Lou Holtz

An old senile man is really the example you are going to fall back on? ND fans think he is stupid. I am still waiting on a post that says they are the best team in the country.

Rumor mill is saying that the players voted down a bowl game. Sad for the seniors...but I can understand the reasoning.

devil1197 wrote: [Rock or whatever his name is trying to still claim that ND is the best program in the nation based on the attention they get even when they are playing poorly. He acts like ND is some great program, well it was 20+ years ago not now. Their program is terrible.

Here we go again, people making shit up! Please find where I said ND is the best program in the country? They are the most popular and use that popularity as a financial advantage.

Again, there's some very dense people on this forum who have limited to zero reading comprehension skills.

dat dude wrote: Any 6-6 team can reject a bowl bid, not just beloved nd.

Wow, you don't get it do you? How many other teams at 6-6 will have multiple bowl invites offered to them.........NONE! LOL, yeah, a 6-6 team will decline a bowl invite.