When will Notre Dame realize just because they were good years and years ago, they aren’t special nor good anymore??!?!?
They may be my most hated sports team. Them, the University of Miami (FL), and WVU all wrestle for the top spot.
i can’t stand notre dame. they’re only popular because of their heritage & religiously dedicated religious demographic. nobody really wants to watch them play now, they only want to remember how they played years ago.
Ok, I know that it’s gotten to the point now where everyone hates ND. I’m not exactly sure why though. They aren’t automatically ranked every season like they used to be. They can’t pull the best recruits each year like they used to. They aren’t consistently good. They aren’t consistently bad. They celebrate the diversity of fat people by having Weis as coach. Their resistence to BCS conferences (or any conference for that matter) keeps them from getting into BCS bowls unless they have a phenomenal year. When they’re competitive people get to watch their team beat ND.
While I do think that it’s ridiculous that NBC continues to be the exclusive carrier of ND football, it’s not because of a hatred toward the program or the belief that ND football is boring. I think it’s silly for ND to still be unaffiliated. However, I think it’s brilliant for NBC.
NBC airs ND football because it is college football. Each season ND plays the following teams: USC, Michigan, Michigan St., Purdue, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Stanford and Navy. That means that every year ND faces the Pac-10, Big-10, Big East and ACC. While they don’t play every major conference, they do hit 4 of the 6 each year (incidentally they play the Mountain West this year as well). That means that NBC reaches viewers from 4 of the 6 major conferences every year. This is fantastic for advertisers, which in turn is fantastic for NBC.
In addition, as a fan, NBC has allowed you to see 4 of the 6 conferences each season, providing you the opportunity to see what the season looks like outside of your regionally broadcasted teams. On a personal level, I live in Portland, OR (go Ducks) and thus have to watch Pac-10 football even though I’m an Big-10 football fan. If not Pac-10, then it’s Mountain West or Big-12. That’s fine. However, ND plays the Big-10, they’re playing in the afternoon on national television and I can see just how badly Michigan is going to suck each and every year.
This is getting a little long winded…hell I even forgot what I’m arguing here…
