If Penn St doesn't win it'll be because they didn't run straight at Boise 90% of time
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Penn St hasn’t been very impressive, IMO. Boise < IU, imo
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Which illustrates that there are too many teams in these playoffs. These games have been lame.
I've enjoyed the toilet bowl games way more than these playoff games. I'll bet there will be at least two more non-competitive games before it's done.
Top four teams, decided over two weeks. Going until the third week of January is stupid and needless. Combining this with NIL, it's like a gaggle of pinheads got together and planned how to ruin college football.
Have I mentioned how lame these playoff games have been?
Game tonight was competitive...and it's good to see a non-Power-5 team have a shot
You're against the college players making some money?
Yeah...and a bunch of meaningless bowl games this season have been just as lame.
Yes, those poor, poor, exploited, oppressed college athletes with free rides!
I mean, it's practically slavery! Poor lads!
Cue the, "They're there to be athletes, not real students!" sports bro talk.
I, for one, look forward to the day when ND decides enough is enough and puts together a conference of teams committed not to being a minor league football program. How do you like that?
I don't have a problem with a college athlete dipping into the money pot that is ...
...college football.
And...sure...ND is going to put together their own conference. And...do what?
ND doesn't seem bothered that they made the playoff. That home playoff game was great.
If ND has any integrity left, it will have to opt out of this madness.
If it doesn't, it won't be Notre Dame anymore. The principles of ND have always been clearly stated. Constructing a minor league football program masquerading as a home for student-athletes contradicts that.
Dipshit alert. ND will leave nothing….they have made hundreds of millions…..
Over the college football history past
Nothing wrong with paying players some of which they generate.
Amen
Yep, thanks hillbilly. Say, how much payroll would be too much?
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Bull shit better to be in the arena than playing for feelings in a so called ethical conference.
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Opposite of feelings: Integrity and honor. If you can't delineate those things, you aren't
a serious participant in the discussion.
Just out of curiosity, is there any depth to which ND could sink in paying players where you would finally say, "Enough?" How about $10 million for a quarterback? How about twenty?
We are still more honorable than the rest and I will never look forward to college sports where we
are on the sidelines, with shit competition, and other schools are participating and having a chance to be champions.
Boy, there's some damning with faint praise. Now answer my question:
To what level would it take for ND to stoop and prostrate itself in paying players? What about $10 million for a QB? Twenty? If it cost $1 mil for Leonard in 2024, it will cost $5 mil in a couple years for the equivalent. Pay whatever it takes? Is that your position?
You mean...opt out of the playoff...or opt out of NIL for their players...
...or both?
Opt out of paying college students to play football.
Understand, this system is obviously unsustainable. Only the morons who designed it apparently couldn't foresee all of this. ND could be ahead of the curve, before it all crashes.
And how does ND get ahead of the curve?
You know...there's no reason ND now has to participate now in taking players off the transfer portal and providing NIL money.
I know, sonny, that's my point...they don't have to...and they shouldn't.
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Stick to basketball, don't want your opinions telling us to give up football which made our
university well known.
You're getting emotional, like the kid. I never said, "Give up football." Quite the contrary.
And when someone tells me to shut up, I talk more, so get used to it. There are a lot of vapid sports bros on this board with not too many synapses firing. Meatballs, you might say.
So...don't. ND can unilaterally ignore the portal and not give out NIL.
Good luck with that.
I know! Like, everybody knows ND exists to win football games! Good deal, bro!
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Without football ND would not be that well known. And yes, I am a graduate, but I want no part
of going more woke.
ND Fans wouldn’t be that well known? WTF are you even talking about
What part of your Notre Dame degree makes you proud? The football team?
I edited it by leaving off the word fans. Sorry for the confusion. I am proud of my degree but I get
more questions about football than anything else when it comes to Notre Dame.
"Going woke!?!" Hilarious! Yeah, that's me! Just sit down, gramps. Your feelings have been hurt.
Again, this monumentally stupid "system" being created before our eyes is obviously unsustainable and will crash. Even you can figure that out if you set aside your hurt feelings and think about it for a bit. ND football will always be around. Tying themselves to this shitshow is not wise. I' far from alone in understanding that ND will only participate for so long, and it ain't gonna be too long, at the rate this "system" is devolving.
Well if we don't participate, sad for us.
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Boise was right there tonight when that called-back touchdown occurred.
At that point...if the TD had stood...it would have been 24-21 and Penn St hadn't been doing much.
They were always going to lose this game. Twelve teams is stupid and pointless. Arizona St. may be
worse. As always happens, the push will not be to cut down the number of teams to avoid these crappy matchups, but rather to expand it. College football until March!
Oh...stop it with the histrionics.
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I'm mocking the histrionics of kids like you.
I have never heard an argument for paying college athletes that isn't wrapped in histrionics and maudlin tales of woe and exploitation.
I guess the athletes never put themselves at risk, now more than ever.
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If Penn St wins it's because Boise has missed 2 field goals and had a touchdown called back.
Boise has played Penn St tough tonight.
If Penn St was boring with play calls and pounded up they gut they'd have 40+
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You could say the same about ND. Pound the rock with Love & Price.
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