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6 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

 

The computers love teams that win by 70 or has the quality loss.  Sagarin is probably the most famous offender.  I like the BCS because it used both human polls and computers.

Did PRONG HORN take over this guy's account?

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    I have stayed out of the fray for the most part, but of all the things that have been spewed, this is the most insane bullshit anyone could possibly say. Why the fuck should the ACC advocate for

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    The loss in revenue for Texas from not playing ND at home would more than be made up for by making the playoffs. So let’s increase our odds of doing that while also telling ND to go fuck themselves. 

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12 hours ago, Wishbone said:

Notre Dame comes across as reluctant to join a conference out of concern that they would struggle to measure up to the image they have cultivated in the past and lose status as a serious threat to win national or even conference titles.

They are upset over this years omission from the playoffs exposing the cherry picking schedule route may not hold up like it used to. Time to adjust expectations and deal with an unfamiliar reality.

good takes, and they would trend towards logical, if domer existed in the same universe as the rest of college football

witness joe's complete and total refusal to address direct questions that create coginitive dissonance

it's an aggy-esque imprint of "special" and "chosen", way beyond entitled

they hear spoken words on a different frequency

any sec team that keeps their current domer contracts should be villified and shamed

On 12/10/2025 at 3:26 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

On 12/13/2025 at 1:37 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

All things considered, ND should go back to refusing to participate in post-season foolery. They need to create an invitational game of heir very own, played someplace that provides an escape from Indiana winters... Hawai'i or the like. Maybe move it year to year, say Qatar, Bangkok, Sao Paulo, Rio.

14 hours ago, dcar00 said:

You could have played BYU and lost by 50 but instead you quit.

FIFY

2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

What rule are you talking about?

2 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

What rule are you talking about?

That MOU with the selection committee ensuring ND is automatically in the playoffs with a certain amount of wins no matter what dogshit teams they play?  Just guessing.

2 hours ago, Scholz said:

That MOU with the selection committee ensuring ND is automatically in the playoffs with a certain amount of wins no matter what dogshit teams they play?  Just guessing.

that one is too new - we don't even know if it's real or not

18 hours ago, Wishbone said:

I’ve been on a boondoggle bender since noon and may not know what I’m talking about, but still pretty sure. 😁

You're kinda' like me: sometimes wrong, but never in doubt.

2 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

What rule are you talking about?

 

the rule that notre dame demands equal treatment without equal risk or equal effort

 

notre dame expects to be judged, weighed and measured using the same standards as every other fbs team (save 1 .. uconn)

you notre dame joe have written a dozen posts in the last 10 days discussing computer equations, committee this that and the other, subjective this, objective that...

 

every other fbs team plays in a conference and is free to choose 3 of their 12 opponents

every other fbs team must share their media rights revenues with the conference

notre dame does not play in a conference and is free to choose 7 of their 12 opponents

notre dame does not have to play in a 13th game because notre dame is not in a conference

notre dame does not share their media rights revenues with anyone, not even it's "business partner" the acc

 

notre dame talks about itself in the 3rd person with circular logic that may make sense to notre dame while sounding incomprehensible to the rest of the college football universe

 

notre dame demands equal treatment without equal risk or equal effort

if that is not a rule, then why does notre dame demand it?

 

4 hours ago, Scholz said:

That MOU with the selection committee ensuring ND is automatically in the playoffs with a certain amount of wins no matter what dogshit teams they play?  Just guessing.

That's a negotiation with the playoff where every conference, especially 2 of them, wants 'special' treatment.

1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

 

the rule that notre dame demands equal treatment without equal risk or equal effort

 

notre dame expects to be judged, weighed and measured using the same standards as every other fbs team (save 1 .. uconn)

you notre dame joe have written a dozen posts in the last 10 days discussing computer equations, committee this that and the other, subjective this, objective that...

 

every other fbs team plays in a conference and is free to choose 3 of their 12 opponents

every other fbs team must share their media rights revenues with the conference

notre dame does not play in a conference and is free to choose 7 of their 12 opponents

notre dame does not have to play in a 13th game because notre dame is not in a conference

notre dame does not share their media rights revenues with anyone, not even it's "business partner" the acc

 

notre dame talks about itself in the 3rd person with circular logic that may make sense to notre dame while sounding incomprehensible to the rest of the college football universe

 

notre dame demands equal treatment without equal risk or equal effort

if that is not a rule, then why does notre dame demand it?

 

Does everyone play an equal number of FBS teams?  Bigger P4 teams?  

Example, Bama scheduled U Louisiana Monroe and Eastern Illinois University!?  So their '13th game' was actually the Tide's 11th losable game.  

4 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

That's a negotiation with the playoff where every conference, especially 2 of them, wants 'special' treatment.

Does everyone play an equal number of FBS teams?  Bigger P4 teams?  

Example, Bama scheduled U Louisiana Monroe and Eastern Illinois University!?  So their '13th game' was actually the Tide's 11th losable game.  

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12 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

@notre dame joe would you please use the word "independence" in your response to this question?:

please explain why notre dame believes notre dame is entitled to a special set of rules that apply only to notre dame

7 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

He's literally just completely brain dead

Yeah but he has a cool avatar.

On 12/12/2025 at 2:26 PM, notre dame joe said:

(Upping that to eight or nine ACC teams a year would on average be a weaker schedule).  

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Heard he was a monumental prick in real life too.  "Giant asshole" is the most common epithet.

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THIS will show those meanies!

 

 

Well, to be honest, I'm going to be mostly boycotting the first round games also.  Except for the anticipated schadenfreude watching TAMU lose on Saturday, it's a dreadful slate of first round games.  

Just now, nnm said:

Well, to be honest, I'm going to be mostly boycotting the first round games also.  Except for the anticipated schadenfreude watching TAMU lose on Saturday, it's a dreadful slate of first round games.  

agreed , i'll probably tune in for the first half of the oregon jmu game myself out of perverted curiosity but i don't think its going to be a 2 half game 

12 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said:

agreed , i'll probably tune in for the first half of the oregon jmu game myself out of perverted curiosity but i don't think its going to be a 2 half game 

The JMU social media trolling of Oregon has been phenomenal.

On 12/17/2025 at 9:42 AM, Scholz said:

Heard he was a monumental prick in real life too.  "Giant asshole" is the most common epithet.

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Yeah, it's why he never played. Coach couldn't stand that prick.

On 12/17/2025 at 8:42 AM, Scholz said:

Heard he was a monumental prick in real life too.  "Giant asshole" is the most common epithet.

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Actually defensive holding

 

I met the real Rudy around 1995 or 1996.  He was very outgoing, warm, and genuine to me...and I was just a 22/23 year-old nobody.

 

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1 hour ago, notre dame joe said:

Actually defensive holding

 

So where does “Rudy was Offsides” come from? Definitely not offsides.

3 hours ago, 'stache said:

So where does “Rudy was Offsides” come from? Definitely not offsides.

From the movie

15 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

From the movie

But he wasn’t offsides in the movie. I always assumed they were saying he was offsides in real life.

 

20 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

I met the real Rudy around 1995 or 1996.  He was very outgoing, warm, and genuine to me...and I was just a 22/23 year-old nobody.

 

seems like a great guy.
 
 
No, Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, the famous Notre Dame football player, did not go to jail, but he was involved in a securities fraud case where he settled charges with the SEC for a "pump-and-dump" stock scheme related to his company, Rudy Nutrition, agreeing to pay fines and accept a ban from public companies, while other participants faced prison time. 
Key Details:
  • SEC Charges (2011): Ruettiger was charged with securities fraud for his role in promoting Rudy Nutrition stock in a scheme to inflate its price.
  • Settlement: He settled the charges without admitting guilt, paying over $380,000 and agreeing to be barred from being an officer or director of a public company.
  • No Jail Time for Rudy: While the schemes hurt investors, the legal actions against Ruettiger resulted in financial penalties and industry bans, not imprisonment.
  • Other Individuals: Some co-conspirators in the scheme did face prison sentences for their roles in orchestrating the fraud. 
3 hours ago, 'stache said:

Is that even a crime anymore?

If you want to be a legal nit, the SEC (the Washington DC one) does civil enforcement and exists to write big fines.  A good lawyer tells you to pay the fine in exchange for non-prosecution by the DOJ.  The money man got one year.  

 

Also, the redditors in the Game Stop stock bubble could have been prosecuted.

On 12/16/2025 at 10:38 AM, Tex Long said:

 Maybe move it year to year, say Qatar, Bangkok, Sao Paulo, Rio, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.

It could be known as the LIV bowl, and the first team out of the CFP would automatically be the opponent.

Just a reminder that ND lost to both of the teams that just played in that 11:00AM "game"

2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Just a reminder that ND lost to both of the teams that just played in that 11:00AM "game"

Reminder, the excluded the #1 offense to feature two teams that managed their one touchdown at the 58 minute.  What a steaming pile.

15 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

Reminder, the excluded the #1 offense to feature two teams that managed their one touchdown at the 58 minute.  What a steaming pile.

Maybe if you had beaten even one of those teams you might have been in?  

18 minutes ago, ITHorn said:

Maybe if you had beaten even one of those teams you might have been in?  

Oh if they had called this on 4th and 11  we are a 4th and 21 away from a first round bye.

 

 

26 minutes ago, immamac said:

ND does blow both of them out this weekend. Almost Guaranteed.

All they had to do was beat one of the two of them in September. 0-2.  I don’t want to hear about season-long improvement unless Texas also gets that attribute- and we actually beat one of those teams in the regular season and also beat another playoff team. 

Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

All they had to do was beat one of the two of them in September. 0-2.  I don’t want to hear about season-long improvement unless Texas also gets that attribute- and we actually beat one of those teams in the regular season and also beat another playoff team. 

No one cares man, none of these teams or Texas or ND would have won it all. The teams that are competitive are on a different level entirely. 

4 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

Oh if they had called this on 4th and 11  we are a 4th and 21 away from a first round bye.

 

 

Are you gonna cry?

17 minutes ago, immamac said:

No one cares man, none of these teams or Texas or ND would have won it all. The teams that are competitive are on a different level entirely. 

🤨 The teams at the top were very close together this year.  If Texas really one TD worse than anOSU (on the road) then you are very close to #1 IU. There's probably 16 teams with an okay chance to make it through the playoff.

8 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

🤨 The teams at the top were very close together this year.  If Texas really one TD worse than anOSU (on the road) then you are very close to #1 IU. There's probably 16 teams with an okay chance to make it through the playoff.

Texas isn't that close to end of season Ohio State. Julian saiyan is so much better than game 1. He was fucking in NYC for the Heisman ceremony and it wasn't weird. 

Its not close. Georgia, Indiana, Ohio State are on a different level. 

1 hour ago, notre dame joe said:

Oh if they had called this on 4th and 11  we are a 4th and 21 away from a first round bye.

 

 

They didn’t though. Everyone gets fucked by a missed call at some point. 

1 hour ago, notre dame joe said:

Oh if they had called this on 4th and 11  we are a 4th and 21 away from a first round bye.

 

 

i mean that sucks and all, but allowing a team that struggled to score 3 points against Miami to score 41 on you is what made you lose 

 

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