Pat Forde with a July "40-yard Dash":
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/40-schedule...soc_trk=ma

Some ACC highlights:

Quote:7. For the first time since 1915, Notre Dame does not play a single team from the Big Ten. The Fighting Irish play six opponents from their pseudo-home conference, the Atlantic Coast.

Quote:22. The last time Notre Dame played at Clemson, Joe Montana had to lead a fourth-quarter rally from 10 points down for a 21-17 victory in November 12, 1977. The Fighting Irish went on to win the national title.

Quote:33. Bobby Petrino is undefeated (10-0) in season openers as a head coach. That perfect record will get a serious challenge Sept. 5 when Louisville faces Auburn in the Georgia Dome.

Quote:37. Wake Forest, an original ACC member dating back to 1953, will play games in Syracuse, N.Y.; West Point, N.Y.; Chestnut Hill, Mass.; and South Bend, Ind. Three of them are scheduled by the ACC.

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Pat Forde with a July "40-yard Dash":
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/40-schedule...soc_trk=ma

Some ACC highlights:

[quote]7. For the first time since 1915, Notre Dame does not play a single team from the Big Ten. The Fighting Irish play six opponents from their pseudo-home conference, the Atlantic Coast.[/quote]

[quote]22. The last time Notre Dame played at Clemson, Joe Montana had to lead a fourth-quarter rally from 10 points down for a 21-17 victory in November 12, 1977. The Fighting Irish went on to win the national title.[/quote]


Did you post this just to make me smile this morning? :)

The Big Ten just doesn't match up with ND's "Southern and Western Strategy" regarding football scheduling and recruiting.

That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

(07-07-2015 07:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

Didn't Notre Dame value the Michigan St. game over the wolverines...? Of course this was before the Haugbaurgh(sp?) hiring, they may change their minds in a few years.
FLossY Out...

(07-07-2015 11:40 AM)HRFlossY Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 07:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

Didn't Notre Dame value the Michigan St. game over the wolverines...? Of course this was before the Haugbaurgh(sp?) hiring, they may change their minds in a few years.
FLossY Out...

ND fans probably did value MSU over UM, but me personally - I liked UM/ND.
Hokie Out!

(07-07-2015 07:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

Whatever happened to that guy after the left Notre Dame? (from the old commerical).

(07-07-2015 11:40 AM)HRFlossY Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 07:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

Didn't Notre Dame value the Michigan St. game over the wolverines...? Of course this was before the Haugbaurgh(sp?) hiring, they may change their minds in a few years.
FLossY Out...

No, the hatred for Michigan is palpable. I have seen or heard very few complaints about ND ditching the Skunkbears from other ND fans.

(07-07-2015 06:33 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 11:40 AM)HRFlossY Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 07:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  That Joe Montana guy was pretty good.

I will miss the Michigan/Notre Dame game, though.

Didn't Notre Dame value the Michigan St. game over the wolverines...? Of course this was before the Haugbaurgh(sp?) hiring, they may change their minds in a few years.
FLossY Out...

No, the hatred for Michigan is palpable. I have seen or heard very few complaints about ND ditching the Skunkbears from other ND fans.

^^^ THIS ^^^ is why I'll miss the Michigan/Notre Dame games!

Jack Swarbrick met with some big ND boosters at an alumni event known as Universal Notre Dame Night.

His comments:


"Independence is not about football at all. Rather, it is important as a means of promoting Notre Dame.

Bound up in that is our scheduling.

Playing in California every year is an imperative, and if we want to keep USC on the schedule every year, then Pac-12 scheduling makes us play two Pac-12 teams every year (“or it won’t work”), so to ensure that we have a game in Cal every year, we are sticking with Stanford as the other perennial Pac-12 opponent.

Then, when you add in Navy and the five ACC games, that leaves four. Among those four is a “buy” game (he called it that, “everybody does it” and “we need to do it to have 7 home games”) and the Shamrock Series game.

That leaves two premiere home-and-home games to schedule every year.

Those two games are viewed as “marker” games for the selection committee to consider.

Independence would be jeopardized if we lost a broadcast partner or if we ended up being penalized by the playoff selection committee."



He got some laughs when he was asked whether it was hard to end the Michigan series. “No.”

ND chose Under Armour, among other reasons, because the ND demographic skews old, and he wanted to bend the curve on that, which Under Armour is best suited to do.

He reiterated that ND will not join in with paying players, which he has publicly said before. He added, however, that there are enough like-minded schools that, if that came to pass, "our schedule wouldn't look much different."



And there you have it from the Notre Dame athletic director. A one word answer to the question about cancelling the Michigan series.

It is not quite as notable as General Anthony McAuliffe's "Nuts" response to the German question about surrender at Bastogne but it is close enough for me.

It is pretty much orthodoxy by ND people that Michigan could rot in hell. There is not much sentiment from that quarter to play them every year.