Pretzel reasoning. Are you seriously saying if NBC hadn't had an exclusive deal with Notre Dame they would have not pursued any other deal to carry college games?
Bartender, I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is having.
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Bartender, I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is having.
I must've missed the good stuff. Was there for the Winter Classic. Place looked run down and small.
I agree ND has a pretty campus, but top 5 no. Maybe top 10, maybe.
One of my favorites is Cornell.
Maybe? Maybe not? As it is, they do Notre Dame Home Games ONLY. No double headers. When ND is on the road, no games, etc. So, while you do ask a good question, I think it was ND or nothing for NBC. As it is, pre-ND on NBC, ND took more slots from other schools on ABC and CBS than they have since. It just doesn't bother me at all. It's MORE football on TV.
Could be but I doubt they go for decades without getting into the college football game if they don't have a contract with ND. And more opportunities getting spread around would have been a good thing during those lean years.
I guess we'll just have to disagree.
The town (South Bend) could be perceived as run down but you are the first person I’ve heard say the campus looks run down. I’m an ISU alum (x2) but work at ND so I’m confident stating ND has a great looking campus as does ISU. ISU does have a better ‘college town’ feel.
I think a lot of that strain of fandom is passed down through families and goes back generations. At the time Notre Dame first became a national power, Catholics were still somewhat “other” in American culture.
I don't like Irish people....not just ND fans, but the actual humans from that backward island. They are ginger and always pinching me and stuff. I think they are mean and unempathetic too....so full of uninclusiveness. Maybe we can put a dome over the island and then rocket them off to some colony on Mars or something.
NBC didn't really ever play college football other than bowl games before that. Iowa State's lack of television exposure in the late 80's and early 90's had nothing to do with Notre Dame.
Yeah, I love ISU's campus, but Notre Dame's is incredible. It's a neat place. South Bend kind of sucks though.
I never said it did. I said I came to dislike them because they got unlimited exposure on one of the three/four major networks whether their performance on the field warranted that level of media coverage or not.
I understand they have a huge following and that is why NBC did what the did. That doesn't mean I liked it. What I resented was instead of seeing a game that mattered like Oklahoma or Nebraska or Texas or Alabama or USC or UW or Ohio State or some other team vying for national championship I was presented with unranked Notre Dame versus unranked and POS Navy, for example.
And it did give them an unfair recruiting advantage by having all their games on television when most teams got 1-3 games a year.
Did you live in Eastern Iowa or something? Not have ESPN? Notre Dame always had a recruiting advantage before NBC. Notre Dame was always on TV before NBC. CBS, ABC, ESPN. Didn't matter. And those were the only channels that played national games. The NBC deal basically took all of Notre Dame's home games off of those three networks. Ever notice how all of their road games are still nationally televised?
Didn't think it would ever happen. Can't wait for the game!!! Go Cyclones. Beat the Irish!!
