10-07-2015, 08:52 AM
I don't care. ND deserves about 1/10 of the attention that they get, and the only way that'll ever change is if they suck for a long time. So I want them to suck. Plus when they're good they're more likely to steal recruits from us.
I think this idea of "beating good teams" is too cute by half. Alabama gets every benefit of the doubt and outside of a couple good SEC teams regularly plays no one. FSU played absolutely no one last year and got into the playoff. OSU played a good MSU squad and no one else and still got in with one loss. Playing lots of good teams does not matter. In fact, the recipe seems to be "play 1-3 good conference teams and no one else and lose at most one of those games." Since that's what it takes, why root for ND to be good? The credit we get from the win won't matter*, and the loss will hurt either way. Root for them to suck.
*There's a tiny, tiny chance that if we lose again but beat a good ND team that it'll let us edge someone else out of the playoff, but that depends on so many other breaks going our way I don't think it actually matters.
I think this idea of "beating good teams" is too cute by half. Alabama gets every benefit of the doubt and outside of a couple good SEC teams regularly plays no one. FSU played absolutely no one last year and got into the playoff. OSU played a good MSU squad and no one else and still got in with one loss. Playing lots of good teams does not matter. In fact, the recipe seems to be "play 1-3 good conference teams and no one else and lose at most one of those games." Since that's what it takes, why root for ND to be good? The credit we get from the win won't matter*, and the loss will hurt either way. Root for them to suck.
*There's a tiny, tiny chance that if we lose again but beat a good ND team that it'll let us edge someone else out of the playoff, but that depends on so many other breaks going our way I don't think it actually matters.