OT: ND Declining a Bowl Game

[Mestengo]

The only thing i like about ND was the movie Rudy. I despise ND and Texas. Every time i see orange in wal mart i want to vomit.

Rudy was offsides.

I knew it!

[Glenn Sosbee]

ND sucks and they are too arrogant to attend a bowl that they consider to be 'beneath them'.....glad they suck...

I'm glad they suck too. The problem is they have sucked for a long time and everyone still considers it the best job in America, as far as the Head Coaching gig. Man, that also wears thin.

[mrydel]

I do not understand all the talk about orange in WalMart. Whenever I go I see nothing but red.

[Statler]

I thought ND meant North Dakota..ROFLMAO

[Topper]

I am not a ND fan, but in 89 or 90 we played them. It became obvious very rapidly that SMU could in no way compete. So ND stopped scoring at around 50 pt.s in the first Q or half. Would not score after that. Also no time outs were called by either team and the clock just ran. I did think it was a decent gesture on ND's part. The game was on national TV. They could have run the score past 100 without much of a problem.

I am no Notre Dame fan either, in fact, when we played them at South Bend in '86 I went up there expecting the worst. To my surprise, I was disappointed that I couldn't come back to Dallas with stories about how classless ND was. In fact, their fans were good sports, friendly, cheerful, respectful, and extremely knowledgeable about the game. Their campus was beautiful, and their band even played our fight song for our supporters since our band couldn't make the trip. The entire experience was first rate and, other than the fact that we lost, one of the best road experiences I have ever had. Having said that, I still regularly root for their opponents.

[Topper]

I am not a ND fan, but in 89 or 90 we played them. It became obvious very rapidly that SMU could in no way compete. So ND stopped scoring at around 50 pt.s in the first Q or half. Would not score after that. Also no time outs were called by either team and the clock just ran. I did think it was a decent gesture on ND's part. The game was on national TV. They could have run the score past 100 without much of a problem.

I am no Notre Dame fan either, in fact, when we played them at South Bend in '86 I went up there expecting the worst. To my surprise, I was disappointed that I couldn't come back to Dallas with stories about how classless ND was. In fact, their fans were good sports, friendly, cheerful, respectful, and extremely knowledgeable about the game. Their campus was beautiful, and their band even played our fight song for our supporters since our band couldn't make the trip. The entire experience was first rate and, other than the fact that we lost, one of the best road experiences I have ever had. Having said that, I still regularly root for their opponents.

I guess it was 85 when we went up there. It was right before the DP.