NBC took a hit on the domers this year

JaBrady · Dec 24, 2007

Who knew viewers didn't want to watch blowouts??

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_53/b4065037218411.htm?campaign_id=yhoo

WCBias · Dec 24, 2007

Good...hopefully NBC drops their sorry asses and ND has no choice but to join the Big 11 and get its ass kicked in every year.

bulldog77 · Dec 24, 2007

Definitely. Need two 6 team divisions in Big 'Ten'. Than we have a Championship Game. ND could compete with Minnesota and maybe even Indiana and N'wn some years!

GilRenard · Dec 24, 2007

The Notre Dame mystique is largely gone. They will be playing in the Big Ten's Eastern Division in 2011 once their gravy train runs out.

FairWarning · Dec 25, 2007

How come ABC/ESPN rushes to show their road games?

RobFunk · Dec 25, 2007

FairWarning said:
How come ABC/ESPN rushes to show their road games?

Looks like all the networks learned the hard way.

Between ND and the writers strike, what do we do?!?!? God help us!!!!

FairWarning · Dec 25, 2007

ABC/CBS would jump to show their games.

Last game not on TV was 1979 (I think).

RobFunk · Dec 25, 2007

You got to love the fire in Joe Pa

Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno says Notre Dame has gone from being an "academic institute to a banking institute."

HisIsTheHand · Dec 25, 2007

don't kid yourselves

I'm no Golden Domer

but you guys should enjoy this for the short time it lasts

He's been getting monster recruiting classes and has been playing the kids through this rough stretch. I got a feeling ND will get the last laugh in the next few years and NBC will be far from ever regretting anything.

Merry Christmas

FairWarning · Dec 25, 2007

2008 Football Schedule
S 06 SAN DIEGO STATE
S 13 MICHIGAN
S 20 @ Michigan State
S 27 PURDUE
O 04 STANFORD
O 11 @ North Carolina
O 18 Open Date
O 25 @ Washington
N 01 PITTSBURGH
N 08 @ Boston College
N 15 @ Navy (Baltimore)
N 22 SYRACUSE
N 29 @ USC

Looks like 9-3 to me.

Cusipz · Dec 25, 2007

9-3 on what planet? MAYBE 5-7. But I'd lean 4-8.

dougstewart · Dec 25, 2007

FairWarning said:
2008 Football Schedule
S 06 SAN DIEGO STATE
S 13 MICHIGAN
S 20 @ Michigan State
S 27 PURDUE
O 04 STANFORD
O 11 @ North Carolina
O 18 Open Date
O 25 @ Washington
N 01 PITTSBURGH
N 08 @ Boston College
N 15 @ Navy (Baltimore)
N 22 SYRACUSE
N 29 @ USC

Looks like 9-3 to me.

FW,
I don't think ND will recover until they get rid of the Fat Boy as their coach. Bad Karma.

5starbomb · Dec 25, 2007

they are a joke, I say 3-9

CaptainLee · Dec 25, 2007

Notre Dame has been an average team and this year they would have finished middle of pack in conferences such as midam, ,confusa, mountainwest or wac. I think even a couple sunbelt teams could have won versus nd the washed up Irish.

TTinCO · Dec 25, 2007

WC Bias said:
Good...hopefully NBC drops their sorry asses and ND has no choice but to join the Big 11 and get its ass kicked in every year.

B-I-N-G-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VIEJODINOSAUR · Dec 25, 2007

6-6 would be an improvement....they need some luck..

texansfan · Dec 25, 2007

5 star bomb said:
they are a joke, I say 3-9

You're confusing them with the Bears.

CaptainLee · Dec 25, 2007

Dsethi said:
Aren't major college programs allowed to have down years? Seen alot of major programs have their fair share of struggles. Least ND's been in the BCS the past couple years (whether they were truly deserving is another question).

ND will rise again.

3-9 is outright pathetic for a hyped program like nd. Maybe they should join the midam or sunbelt if they wish to be a 9+ win team every season. Last season during their bowl game they were exposed for the jokes they are and it carried over into this season. People are tired of this program getting publicity without a glimpse of on-field performance matching the hype.

CaptainLee · Dec 25, 2007

I stopped watching them after the Georgia Tech game until the Navy game and did not watch another game after they lost to Navy. Their offense this season was more boring than watching paint dry. I was offered tickets to USC and Air Force games, but chose to not attend.

VIEJODINOSAUR · Dec 25, 2007

If you are a true fan like Dsethi, you follow your team through thick and thin, you don't pick and choose..Captain Lee, how can you just not go to a Notre Dame game?