NCAA Football '12-13

[dps]

So, not a surprise really, but Notre Dame has notified Michigan that they won't continue their series past 2014.

That's a real shame.

Yeah, though it isn't as long-time a rivalry as I thought.  Turns out that they've only met 40 times.

[Valmy]

So, not a surprise really, but Notre Dame has notified Michigan that they won't continue their series past 2014.

That's a real shame.

Completely coincidentally 2015 is when they start their series with Texas.

Hmmmm...Thanksgiving?  Interesting.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Completely coincidentally 2015 is when they start their series with Texas.

Hmmmm...Thanksgiving?  Interesting.

Hey do you know if they're travelling up to Ft Worth for Thanksgiving next year, or if they're playing Tech or someone else at home?  I want to say I read that they were going to be playing at home again, but I can't find where I saw/think I saw that, so....

[grumbler]

If only the big ten were stable

[MBM] Asshole cocksucker motherfucker ignorant douchebag! [/MBM]

I think ND is realizing that they can't play more than 2 decent teams per year and still get into big bowls, and the Michigan game, while a classic, doesn't serve ND's interests as much as the guarantee of one game a year on each of the coasts.

ND is better-served by their abandonment of their old, traditional scheduling in favor of tactical scheduling.  Fewer, but better-placed, big games is their way forward.

[MadBurgerMaker]

[MBM] Asshole cocksucker motherfucker ignorant douchebag! [/MBM]

Hey look, you still don't get it! Stunning!  

[derspiess]

I think I saw somewhere (here, maybe?) that the WVU - Marshall series wasn't continuing after this year.

I have mixed feelings.  As a life-long WVU fan that attended Marshall for a couple years, I'd like to see the series continue.  But as good a game as it is for Marshall, it's not really in WVU's best interests to keep the game. 

For football at least WVU-Marshall is a non-rivalry.  Nobody outside the state pays attention, and it's a much bigger deal for Marshall fans than it is for WVU fans.

[CountDeMoney]

I have mixed feelings.  As a life-long WVU fan that attended Marshall for a couple years, I'd like to see the series continue.  But as good a game as it is for Marshall, it's not really in WVU's best interests to keep the game. 

I think WVU has more than enough games on its schedule to compete for a BCS bid, and I think Marshall is a great tune-up game early in the season for them (after Maryland, of course).

For football at least WVU-Marshall is a non-rivalry.  Nobody outside the state pays attention, and it's a much bigger deal for Marshall fans than it is for WVU fans.

I disagree;  people outside the state know about it.    And while more in-state kids go to play for Marshall than WVU, who recruits nationally, it's an important game to the kids that played with and against one another in high school.

I think it's a good thing, and a shame it's ending.

[derspiess]

I think WVU has more than enough games on its schedule to compete for a BCS bid, and I think Marshall is a great tune-up game early in the season for them (after Maryland, of course).

Marshall's a distraction, and a "gotcha" game waiting to happen.  Nobody at WVU wants the game.  The only reason it continued as long as it did is that Manchin forced it on WVU.

I disagree;  people outside the state know about it.   

DON'T PATRONIZE ME.

And while more in-state kids go to play for Marshall than WVU, who recruits nationally, it's an important game to the kids that played with and against one another in high school.

I think it's a good thing, and a shame it's ending.

I will miss it, but I don't blame WVU for walking away from it.

[Valmy]

Hey do you know if they're travelling up to Ft Worth for Thanksgiving next year, or if they're playing Tech or someone else at home?  I want to say I read that they were going to be playing at home again, but I can't find where I saw/think I saw that, so....

No idea but I would shocked if Texas was playing the Froggies in Fort Worth next Thanksgiving.

[grumbler]

[MBM] Asshole cocksucker motherfucker ignorant douchebag! [/MBM]

Hey look, you still don't get it! Stunning!

  I got it from your first post.  I am still laughing. 

Feel free to throw in more personal insults and tell me, for the umpteenth time, that you are never going to respond to me again. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

  I got it from your first post.  I am still laughing. 

Oh did you?  That's interesting, since my first post to you was:

They just signed a 13 year grant of rights along with their new TV deal.  The Big 12 isn't even remotely shaky.

Nope, you still don't get it and now...well now you're just flailing around.

Feel free to throw in more personal insults and tell me, for the umpteenth time, that you are never going to respond to me again. 

OvB really nailed you in that first post of his in response to this whole thing, didn't he?  I also never said I wasn't ever going to respond to you again.  Are you just making things up again?

[derspiess]

I think I missed something.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I think I missed something.

Grumbler didn't know about the grant of rights the Big 12 schools signed with the new TV deal and was talking about the Big 12 being shaky and whatnot.  I responded with the quoted part above, and he went into sarcastic douchebag mode.  Nothing particularly important.

[dps]

I think WVU has more than enough games on its schedule to compete for a BCS bid, and I think Marshall is a great tune-up game early in the season for them (after Maryland, of course).

Marshall's a distraction, and a "gotcha" game waiting to happen.  Nobody at WVU wants the game.  The only reason it continued as long as it did is that Manchin forced it on WVU.

While you're correct that the series only existed because Manchin forced it on WVU, why would it be any more of a "gotcha" game than any other game between a team from a power conference and a team from a lower-tier FBS conference?

I mean, it's pretty clear what WVU's schedule is going to look like going forward (assuming that the Big 12 keeps a 9-game conference schedule, and the NCAA keeps FBS teams at 12 games a season)--they're going to play 9 conference games, a game against a team from another power conference (apparantly Maryland), a game against an FCS team, and one other, which will probably be a game against a lower-tier FBS conference.  Why not Marshall, at least in some years?  What makes them less suitable than say, Bowling Green?

[CountDeMoney]

DON'T PATRONIZE ME.