What is the state of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program?

[Baka's Weird Case]

nah, their alumni base spreads worldwide breh, like a 120k deep. There's a reason they can go play anywhere and have a sizeable local crowd on top of their boosters having deep pockets (see John Jordan). Name another school that can go to Ireland to play a game

id believe most spread out but not the most fans. notre dame has 12k students, OSU has 45k just undergrad. the big schools are gonna have more fans (although maybe not as global).

 

[Ron Mexico]

After losing to us last year their best defensive lineman transferred

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

at best defensive lineman

He transferred after he got passed on the depth chart during spring practice.

 

[reasonable_doubter]

they never won a bcs bowl.......

2000 season they lost oregon st. in the 01 fiesta bowl
2005 season lost to ohio state in the 06 fiesta bowl
2006 season lost to lsu in the 07 sugar bowl
2012 season lost to alabama in the 13 bcs nc game at the orange bowl


not even counting the cfp era..... they havent even made a rose bowl trip: (only the best programs play in a rose bowl game btw)......


but there are only 8 programs that really matter in college football and nd is one of them:

Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma, USC(cali.), Miami and Notre Dame........ <- every team here played in the rose bowl in the BCS era except ND.....

 

[Robert California]

at best defensive lineman

He transferred after he got passed on the depth chart during spring practice.

I'm trolling breh

 

[Brozay]

they never won a bcs bowl.......

2000 season they lost oregon st. in the 01 fiesta bowl
2005 season lost to ohio state in the 06 fiesta bowl
2006 season lost to lsu in the 07 sugar bowl
2012 season lost to alabama in the 13 bcs nc game at the orange bowl


not even counting the cfp era..... they havent even made a rose bowl trip: (only the best programs play in a rose bowl game btw)......


but there are only 8 programs that really matter in college football and nd is one of them:

Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma, USC(cali.), Miami and Notre Dame........ <- every team here played in the rose bowl in the BCS era except ND.....

isnt the Rose Bowl reserved for Big 10 / Pac 12 if its not a title game?

 

[reasonable_doubter]

isnt the Rose Bowl reserved for Big 10 / Pac 12 if its not a title game?

in the bcs era, yes.........

but,

Alabama played in the 10' rose vs texas in the bcs champ.
Miami played in the 02' rose vs neb. in the bcs champ.

now Oklahoma played in the 03' rose vs wash. st. because 2002 Ohio St. played in the bcs champ.
texas played in the 05' and 06' rose bowl...... the 05' rose vs michigan, texas was neither a con. champ, nor belonged to aq conference but since they were ranked so high they got in....

what im saying is all these schools played in a rose bowl in the bcs era except ND... and it kinda hurts NDs prestige....

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Their up there with smUM .

Classless Fans, Classless Program. Trash Ass Teams in this era. Holding on to shyt that happen decades ago

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

• Tough academic standards for a lot of top tier athletes to get into
• Pride wouldn't let them from joining the Big 10 when they had multiple opportunities
• Catholic school, so have to follow an "honor" code (aka can't really be fukking bytches unless you are married)
• Every top tier team is going to be on national TV regardless, so the NBC deal doesn't mean shyt these days
• Still want to play the toughest schedule in the nation when they don't have the athletes to be successful every year
• Still in the middle of no where in bum fukking Indiana.
• Fans are delusional with expectations every year. Notre Dame is a borderline middle of the road team.

 

[Floyd Pinkerton]

Moribund.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Scumbag program. scumbag coach, and scumbag alumni.

fukk Notre Dame Football as a whole.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

they never won a bcs bowl.......

2000 season they lost oregon st. in the 01 fiesta bowl
2005 season lost to ohio state in the 06 fiesta bowl
2006 season lost to lsu in the 07 sugar bowl
2012 season lost to alabama in the 13 bcs nc game at the orange bowl


not even counting the cfp era..... they havent even made a rose bowl trip: (only the best programs play in a rose bowl game btw)......


but there are only 8 programs that really matter in college football and nd is one of them:

Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma, USC(cali.), Miami and Notre Dame........ <- every team here played in the rose bowl in the BCS era except ND.....

howd you come up with that eight ? id probably have the same list with penn state

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

fukk em

 

[JLova]

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

• Tough academic standards for a lot of top tier athletes to get into
• Pride wouldn't let them from joining the Big 10 when they had multiple opportunities
• Catholic school, so have to follow an "honor" code (aka can't really be fukking bytches unless you are married)
• Every top tier team is going to be on national TV regardless, so the NBC deal doesn't mean shyt these days
• Still want to play the toughest schedule in the nation when they don't have the athletes to be successful every year
• Still in the middle of no where in bum fukking Indiana.
• Fans are delusional with expectations every year. Notre Dame is a borderline middle of the road team.

wait that cant be real. i know people who went to BC and they fukked, drank underage etc. catholic schools aint like brigham young

 

[reasonable_doubter]

howd you come up with that eight ? id probably have the same list with penn state

penn state doesnt have the prestige ND has... I mean if you make the case for psu, then how about georgia? or clemson? or fsu? or wisconsin? etc...... those 8 schools I listed are college football and the other teams play off of them.....