The hypocrisy of the join a conference haters
Other teams: Its not fair - ND needs to join a conference! There schedule is too easy.
ND: We already play 10 P4 schools.
Other teams: But you don’t have to risk playing in a CCG!
ND : So the risk would be if we lose a CCG we will go down in the rankings?
Other teams: Well, no. You can’t drop a team for playing an extra game.
The argument makes zero sense. It’s just ND hate.
Replies to: The hypocrisy of the join a conference haters
But that's not really the argument they're making...
... their argument (which, incidentally, is also bs) is that Notre Dame doesn't have to 'run the gauntlet' of a conference schedule. When you have to play teams year after year (this bs argument goes), teams know one another's tendencies and rivalries are forged and even bottom-tier teams become difficult to beat week after week. The reality is—particularly in the era of expansion where conferences have 16 teams and therefore only play perhaps one or two teams every season given an 8/9-game conference slate—that pretty much every strong CFP contender plays around 2-4 (maybe 5) difficult games, 2-4 cupcake matchups, and 4-6 middle-of-the-road games. It's true for teams in the P4 conferences and it's true for ND.
There are a lot of haters out there. We ask for it to some degree. We just don’t care if u hate us
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We absolutely ask for it. Thanks for acknowledging it.
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ND does not need to join a conference, but 11-1 or better always will be necessary to make the
playoffs in the current set up. Recognizing the quality of next year’s schedule could improve post portal activity, ND will need to run the table.
Their hate will still be there for us if we’re in a conference-they will just have control of us.
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100% why I wouldn't join until absolute re-alignment unless forced.
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At some point this is almost guaranteed to happen. Then and only then do we decide how to proceed
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