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Link: ACC BYES Its Teams Time to Prepare for Notre Dame in 2019
Use this to develop a ND vs the world chip on the shoulder.
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Cupcake UNM at home the week before going to Georgia
Cupcake Bowling Green at home before USC.
Bye before going to Michigan
In fact, that was why Notre Dame taking a home game and moving to the state of their opponent was such a big deal last year. That was against their best interest. But, for a conference to schedule like that is something else, and worth pointing out. It's not "wrong" of them to do it, and the article never says it is, but it's notable.
Weak scheduling before a tough game is normal.
I do think an entire conference allinging it's schedule to be weak before ND is definitely noticable and abnormal.
I don't blame the ACC, ND is using and abusing them. Good for ND, good for the ACC.
But it's not the same.
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That was 5-7 this past year and that tough Michigan that Florida blew out?
Schedule is shaping up for 12-0 again
Toss out another 10% because the ACC has the referees in their pocket and blowouts become nailbiters.
Enough with the excuse making
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When we have to write crap like this? You are either one of the best five teams in America and the crappy ACC doesnt scare you or we are just posers?
Which one is it?
And Alabama and Clemson fans whine and discuss this stuff all the time. Take your hate for ND glasses off from time to time bud. This board is already boring enough with the, "ND sucks, everyone sucks except Clemson, and maybe Bama" constant garbage.
asshole, just sick of the pansy ass whining.....like you
I'm just fair and don't let my love or hate make me sound like a bozo, like you.
all the friggin travel was poorly arranged, was gonna derail our success, blah, blah, blah. Ah, bullspit. Forget excuses. Line em up, prepare and knock em down one at a time. Anything else is either idle chatter or click bait.
extra ACC opponent. With the requirement of playing 5, ND is already "in" the ACC anyway.
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Louisville blows. Hard. Duke was mediocre with a QB that will be taken in the first round of the draft. Odds are they will suck. The other three may be above average but doubtful to be anything more.
If we lose to any of these we don't deserve to be in a good bowl game regardless of how rested they are.
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Mission accomplished.
Isnt that what you did as well? Whine about the ACC beating up on us?
Please do tell what the difference is? Can't wait to hear it
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"The 2019 set of ACC games certainly looks like the Irish can make it two years in a row without losing a regular season game to the ACC. If they take care of business next season, the fact that these five teams all either have a bye week or essentially have a bye week shouldn’t matter. On paper, Notre Dame should beat them all even though three of the five have beaten Notre Dame at least once in the last five years (Louisville, Duke, & Virginia Tech)."
And I'm talking about in the opinion of those on the Notre Dame beat. They follow Georgia and Michigan. As the article states, Notre Dame should handle those teams easily in a vacuum, but after playing two difficult road games, and those teams having a week to prepare for our matchup, makes them a little more difficult. Playoff caliber teams blow games they shouldn't all the time, as has been the case since the beginning of the sport. No clue how worried the staff or the players are, if at all, but it seems appropriate for a Notre Dame website to mention the schedule and potential pitfalls.
The fact that it seems deliberate on the part of the ACC to schedule byes for their conference members prior to Notre Dame is also worth mentioning, regardless of how the team, coaches, school feels about it, or if anyone is "worried".
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So, maybe the complaints of this obvious scheduling trick is well, obvious.
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I think it's a petty move by the ACC and shouldn't have too much bearing on ND's season if ND is a championship quality team or even a really good team.
To complain about it may seem petty but it is the details over a long season that make a difference.
we aren't that good.
That's laughable.
You think Clemson thinks about who Duke plays the week before Clemson plays them?
And I'm guessing they would discuss scheduling on a Clemson message board. And, yes, I think if the ACC scheduled a bunch of byes for teams before playing Clemson, they might have thoughts about it. And regardless, whether the fans discuss it or not has nothing to do with the team being "that good."
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I can recognize that and still think ND should be able to win those games.
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I'm not losing sleep over it. Don't think anyone is. It is a Notre Dame football board on which an article about this scheduling issue is being discussed. That's about it.
Done on purpose
Conspiracy theorists here at UHND.
Pretty big coincidence otherwise. But, yeah, if it was completely accidental then it isn't a bullshit move. It's just weird luck. So I guess it just comes down to whether you think it was purposeful or not.
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can display in the media "independence" but in reality, if there is a required number of football games to be played, they are not in fact; independent. It's a semantics type thing to make ND feel good about hanging on to the past with the whole independent thing.
I get it, but at the same time, the world has changed. When you don't change with the world, you end up like Blockbuster -- dead.
So, assuming the 5 bye's in front of an ND game is intentional by the league, then it's definitely a message or a first shot across the bow.
There are 3 choices for ND.. leave, join or quit whining. Since we've effectively already joined (playing required # of games) you might as well just play one more and quit claiming something that's not 100% true... and that is "independence".
Also, the one thing ND had that the ACC needed or wanted, is no longer so... a TV deal. I've been seeing commercials where they too now have a network. So, if it's not an NBC network, ND no longer provides much of a trade value to the league other than brand.
Link: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/nc-state/state-now/article149960542.html
We all have more important things to worry about
The ACC is contributing to a fairly easy schedule again for the Irish in 2019.......
Life would be quite a bit more challenging if we played 5 SEC teams each year.....
FSU, Miami, and NC State are in the upper echelon of the ACC? They are good but not elite