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Link: Notre Dame Passes Bowling Green Test with Flying Colors
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First, BG was better when they were initially scheduled. Second, the team needs some easy opponents for several reasons; it can't play top 20 every week. Third, other top teams have easier schedules than ND does. Fourth, those who say the schedules were consistently tough opponents in the olden days are objectively wrong.
Do you live your life with nothing but top challenges every week?
Did you whine and cry like a little baby when Bowling Green played Michigan State, Oregon, Maryland, Georgia Tech or Kansas State in the last 2 years? Did someone put a gun to the head of BG's AD and tell him to intentionally manufacture a crappy team in order to get paydays against better teams?
Keep your crying towel ready for next year's game against Western Michigan and the 2021 game against Toledo.
Asshole? They played a shitty team and beat the crap out of them. Why are you so defensive about it?
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The number of complaints about this game is ridiculous. You have to play these games a few times a year for a few reasons.
1. You can't play top 25 teams every week and expect to play in the playoffs. Georgia doesn't. Alabama doesn't. Clemson doesn't. etc. If everyone else is scheduling FCS teams, you need a few bad teams on the schedule every year. Oh and reminder, Notre Dame has never scheduled a FCS opponent.
2. You need a few blowouts to get backups and young kids real, meaningful reps so that they have some experience when they are called upon. You can't simulate game speed in practice without risking piling up a ton of injuries. Getting the 2nd string units almost an entire half of reps was huge
So please spare me the "this is a disgrace" nonsense.
So that has no bearing on the issue
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Homer police are slow on the uptake sometimes.
There has be a better way to provide reps apart from these craptastic pseudo-games.
The previous four seasons they were 8-5, 10-4, 8-6, 10-4.
36-19 over four years. At the time a quality non-power 5 foe.
They weren't lambs led to slaughter, the program fell off a cliff. It happens, not our problem.
BGSU is a division 1 program. Period. Taking your illogical claim to its reasonable conclusion means that the NCAA should drop every program outside of the top 50 and realign the entire sport. Maybe they can relegate and promote teams from FBS and FCS. Yeah, that'll work.
Hey, the Patriots play the Bengals and the Dolphins this year. You'd better get on the horn to the NFL.
It's easy to sit back and complain about these games without offering up any sort of alternative.
If Notre Dame scheduled 12 Power 5 teams full of top 25 teams, people would then complain that Notre Dame was scheduling itself out of a playoff run.
Again, Notre Dame's never scheduled a FCS team - and likely never will. Scheduling a few games like this a year is a necessary evil in college football. You can complain about the state of college football, but don't call Notre Dame scheduling Bowling Green or the like as a "disgrace".
The 2019 schedule includes blueblood programs like USC, Stanford, Michigan, Georgia, Virginia Tech, Virginia. It's impossible to predict when schedules are created that VT, USC, Michigan, and Stanford all look like they will have down years.
It also includes programs like Louisville, Boston College, and Duke who have all had some recent seasons where they've been good teams.
PSU had Idaho State this year for grins and giggles.
you go comment on their boards.
ND does what all major programs do. You don’t schedule top 25 teams every week. And I’m not sure I’d even agree about “the system.” For a top team, a game like this is valuable for game experience for back ups. And for starters to maybe work on some things too. And it is an opportunity for players at Bowling Green to get on a bigger stage. I’m sure most were excited to play at ND. I doubt any felt like “tackling dummies for scrubs.”
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And those BG/Mercer kids are fucking football players.
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