MIami IN Notre Dame Out
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Anonymous
| If I was a ND fan/student/parent/whatever I would be embarrassed. This is not a good lesson for the players, for one. |
Anonymous
Agreed. |
Anonymous
I wouldn't put Duke and ND together. Duke is far superior. Just sayin. |
Anonymous
Their decision to play did not surprise me. They were afraid to get exposed by BYU. Their fear to schedule real opponents or join a P conference but majority of cupcakes put this in the very position they are in. |
Anonymous
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Sports commentator Paul Finebaum was on ESPN this morning. He was on fire ! Called Notre Dame football "cry-babies" and called Notre Dame "the laughingstock of college football". Finebaum said Notre Dame is responsible for its failure to qualify for the 12 team CFP because Notre Dame thinks its better than everyone else. ND football thinks that it's too good to join a conference & too good to be ignored.
Not sure which ESPN commentator stated the obvious: All ND football had to do to get in the 12 team CFP was to join the ACC and win the conference title. Paul Finebaum lamented the CFP's exclusion of U Texas, Notre Dame, BYU, & Vanderbilt. Said that Tulane & James Madison do not belong. Ole Miss already beat Tulane in the regular season and is a 16.5 point favorite over Tulane in the CFP first round game. U Oregon is more than a 20 point favorite over JMU in the first round. Solution for disappointed ND football fans: Expand the CFP to 16 teams (with no byes). and/or Get Notre Dame to become a full football member of the ACC. Regarding strength of schedule: Notre Dame was #44 and U Miami was #45, but U Miami beat ND in a head-to-head game. |
Anonymous
| Interesting side-note: The current coach of #1 Indiana University is in his second year at Indiana; he (Cignetti) came from #12 JMU where he was the head football coach for several years. Not sure why this never gets mentioned. |
Anonymous
| weak schedule. navy, bc, stanford, purdue -if they want to be in the playoff and not be in a conference they have to play the top teams. |
Anonymous
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Who cares about Finebaum never listen to him. Duke played by the rules and won the ACC championship they should be in automatically. Coach K and Duke basketball with their ratings machine subsidized NCAA expenses for decades. Then a once in 100 year s Duke football team gets robbed by putting in the likes of academic powerhouses Miami and JMU. Resentment or envy on that CFP committee screwed the Blue Devils. Good for ND.
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Anonymous
| Very bad optics with JMU, Alabama and Miami in. |
Anonymous
It's very obvious that the entitled belief that ND is somehow "special" is running up against the reality and it's causing a lot of cognitive dissonance for ND. Most ND boosters are the same -- they can't conceive of a system that doesn't preserve a special place for ND just because it's ND, so they are losing it and declaring everything "broken" and "unfair" simply because ND would up just outside the selection. The irony here is that of course the system is broken and unfair, it always has been. It's just that previously this benefitted ND. The inability to recognize this *should* be embarrassing to people who also claim ND is a superior academic institutions, but of course that kind of self reflection is beyond the superior souls who make up ND's alumni so instead they are pitching a fit. |
Anonymous
Duke lost 5 games in the regular season this year. Definitely NOT CFP material this year. Duke lost to Tulane this year aswelland most think that Tulane does not deserve to be in the 12 team CFP. |
Anonymous
| ND definitely would have lost to BYU. They knew it. |
Anonymous
ND Definitely losing its luster. This didn't help. |
Anonymous
+1. |
Anonymous
| Since this is a college board. Per 2026 US News rankings- Duke 7, ND 20, UMiami 64, JMU 151, and UAlabama 169. That says it all. |