Joey McGuire taking a shot at Irish
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Link: https://x.com/irishnet/status/1987685489101472220?s=46
Replies to: Joey McGuire taking a shot at Irish
Ignorant comments by anonymous coaches only resonate when you engage them.
Follow Freeman's example from his press conference today when a token asked him his opinion on conference membership, don't engage.
Sydney Sweeney seems to understand this principle very well.
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Here is the shit talker's conference schedule
I don't know how the Irish could survive a gauntlet like this. And to go out of conference and take on Arkansas Pine Bluff? A profile in courage!
AR-Pine Bluff
Kent State
Oregon St
Utah
Houston
Kansas
Arizona St
Oklahoma St
Kansas St
BYU
UCF
West Virginia
I don't see a single A&M, Miami, USC, or Pitt on that SHIT schedule
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And their SOS is lower than Indiana's who started the season playing 3 straight FCS teams.
Stupid and shameless is a bad look, Joey.
A gauntlet if there ever was one
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Two things can be true at the same time.
The Big 12 is weak and, therefore, TT's schedule is weak.
Our schedule is as well. We've played 3 good to very good teams and lost 2 of them.
Somehow, next year's is worse.
Three things (maybe four)...ND does not have the leeway that it had in scheduling back in the day...
...because of the power schools being tied to their conference schedules. (Very likely losing USC says all you need to know.)
Focus of scheduling now is...playoffs. No longer the best bowl matchup that might vault you to the NC on January 1st.
Doesn't change the fact that the bitching can be legitimate.
And while there is always risk that teams believed to be strong when scheduled will be in a down year or period, your point on conference scheduling hasn't seemed to have affected 2028 or other future years.
Next year is putrid. The Wisconsin game is a reschedule from Covid and they are traditionally decent, but I still wouldn't categorize that as a great game. Miami is the only other decent team and they are there only because of the ACC scheduling.
Perhaps Bevacqua is changing this with some of the recent announcements. Swarbrick rolled over for Kelly too easily.
True...but not from him.
We'll see about 2028 and beyond and how those schedules hold up. (ie USC for 2026). (Not entirely certain the ACC will hold together.)
To your point about 2028 looking good on paper, 2028 for example is Texas, Auburn, Clemson, Miami on the stronger games
Freeze now gone from Auburn. Fully believe Dabo will be gone from Clemson. Miami fluctuates. We'll see.
Not saying it can't be good...but certainly not a "known". And again the goal is PLAYOFFS.
If you schedule a true gauntlet...that will be the accident in the future...
There is a wide gulf between a gauntlet and garbage. Next year is garbage.
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I wasn't defending next year at any point...but whatever. USC came off the schedule at the last...
...minute (likely). They have been a mainstay as a (generally) respectable, or better, opponent over time.
Goes more to my point of "shit happens"...and with college football so in flux...there's a lot more "shit" yet to come down the pike.
Prime directive is a schedule that works for the playoffs...
Next year's does not seem optimal at the moment as it presents as too light to recover from the wrong stumble perhaps.
Clearly he was talking about UConn, right?
Texas Tech' toughest games have been against Utah, BYU (both wins) and Arizona State (loss). They're likely to make the Big12 title game and play either Cincinnati or one of BYU, Houston, Utah or Arizona State yet again. Their OOC games this year were challenging, scintillating matchups against Arkansas Pine Bluff, Kent State and Oregon State (who have a collective record of 8-12, and one of these schools sports their 3-6 record in FCS).
But thanks, Joey—that clip gave us all a good laugh to start of the week!
They’ve played 2 ranked teams and we’ve played 3
Their opponents record has 56 wins and ours has 59
Not much difference..
We would have a difficult time against them…if we played like we did against BC, MIA, A&M or USC…
Who? The agent guy Tom Cruise played in that movie?
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That's funny.
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Playoffs are around the corner, there's going to be a lot more of this from
across the country.
It's stupid, makes him (and those to come) look stupid (and envious) but there's going to be a lot of it coming.
You really think a top tier B1G or SEC team is “envious” of us?
Seriously? We are a second thought in SEC country.
Yeah right that's why Paul Feinbaum takes a shot against us whenever we are brought up.
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What does that have to do with SEC being (not being) envious of us?
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Says the guy with the meat grinder of a schedule whose hardest game was BYU. Ok boss.
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Screaming into the whirlwind from the stoop of his glass house...
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Absolutely asinine comment by him.
Number one apparently he has not looked at BYU's schedule. Number two you shouldn't throw stones at Notre Dame's program when you are the benefit of 40 million to build your football team. That is just an unintelligent comment
Dumbest shit I've heard when ND had the toughest schedule for years!
Notre Dame for the longest was the only program that would play anybody anywhere at anytime.
Not lately though
This year is hardly Murderers Row
It is becoming more difficult with elite teams wanting to stay in conference after start of year and
...most wanting to play cupcakes prior to their conference schedules beginning. (Luckily some will still wander for the revenue and exposure an ND game provides.)
In the now NIL/playoff era... ND should NOT be scheduling a "Murderer's Row". They need to set a schedule that maximizes playoff chances...then maximizes revenue and exposure to and for recruits. Bragging rights for schedule strength is OVER...replaced by bragging rights for how far you got in the Playoffs. That's just how it is...
True, but our SOS is 23rd and TT's is in the 50s. So he souldn't toss any stones our way
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No, but...
...the guy trying to point that out shouldn't be Joey McGuire, coach of the $40M team leading the charge in... the Big [Little?] 12...
I could really care less what he says
Understand we don’t want a Murderers Row, but we never should have wanted one.