[NU Sports] Evil Empire speaks, says very little

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Well, back in the Lou Holtz years before the first seismic shift of conference realignment, the Irish had an extremely tough schedule -- SC, Michigan, Penn State, Miami, Florida State, Tennessee, etc. were all regulars and later on, Ohio State, Nebraska and others.

But their schedule has lightened significantly since those days -- and I think they fear that if the Big Ten expands, their three early Big Ten games will dry up soon, leaving them with SC and no one else.

It looks like the Texas overtures had their desired impact and the Irish are at least pulling their heads out of the sand to see what's going on.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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--- On Tue, 3/9/10, Roy S. Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:

> From: Roy S. Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Evil Empire speaks, says very little
> To: cherron604 at aol.com, nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 1:32 PM
> If you look at who the Evil Empire
> plays each year in football, you wonder why they are
> ranked so high.
> 
> There was a time the 3 service academies were highly
> ranked, but now they range from
> decent (Navy) to rebuilding for 20 years (Army).  This
> year they are playing Stanford,
> Tulsa, Utah, and Western Michigan, along with Purdoo,
> Michigan and MSU from the Big 10.
> 
> The only other two biggies I see on their schedule are USC
> and Pitt. They will easily be
> 6-6, and could be 9-3 with Weiss's playbook. You can almost
> make the case that NU's
> schedule this year is harder.
> 
> ND should have been in the Big 10 from day 1, then we'd
> know just how good a history they
> would have.
> 
> rsl
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of
> cherron604 at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:15 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Evil Empire speaks, says very little
> 
> 
> >From today's SI.com
> 
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/03/09/notre-dame-expansion/
> 
> The arrogance of these low-lives is never surprising. 
> It is good to see them start to
> slowly twist in the wind.  Sounds like they are afraid
> that the television pie is going to
> be split, and they might be 'left behind'.  Oh, what a
> terrible thing that would be.
> 
> Always quick to want to separate from others when it suited
> their purposes, the worthless
> tools from South Bend are now whining/crying:
> 
> "What if a few conferences further distinguish themselves
> from the field? What are the
> competitive ramifications of that?"
> 
> Those conferences are distinguishing themselves from the
> field because they had a vision,
> and took the initiative to get it done.  ND expects
> now (and has always expected) to have
> everything handed to them because of who they are.  It
> is a great thing to see them
> becoming less and less relevant with each passing season.
> 
> Swarbrick also whines:
> 
> "The bar has been set so high, and the [current] media
> market is so tepid, that it creates
> a lot of tension."
> 
> By tepid, does he mean that his private network just lost a
> couple hundred million dollars
> on the Winter Olympics, and has settled back in to their
> comfortable role as the 4th place
> network ?
> 
> The coach says "it is great" to play teams "from all over
> the country."  Doesn't he really
> mean lousy, non-competitive teams from all over the country
> ?
> 
> Finally Swarbrick adds "we're trying like heck to maintain
> our football independence. It's
> good for college football."  No, Jack, it's good for
> you.  The rest of the college
> football world has moved along without your useless
> program. If you want to stay
> independent, be prepared for even more separation between
> the 'haves' (Big Ten, SEC), and
> your pathetic program.
> 
> 
> I hope Swarbrick and Co. come begging this time on bended
> knee, and Delaney tells them to
> go to hell.
> 
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
> 
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