08-16-2012, 07:01 AM
"it's a lot more exciting for Stanford to go to South Bend and upset the #1 team in the country than to beat a team analysts expect to go 7-5/8-4."
No. It's more fun to keep one foot on their neck while kicking them with the other. Until they decide to unschedule us because its just too painful to have us on their schedule. It's more fun to have ND losing recruits to us because our academics/football proposition is demonstrably better year in and year out. It's more fun because losing to them is a worse alternative... to which we would be left with the pathetic self-reassurance; "Well, they are the #1 team in the nation." Talk to me again when all the buzz is how Stanford is rated lower nationally because we keep Northern Indiana Parochial College on our schedule.
No. It's more fun to keep one foot on their neck while kicking them with the other. Until they decide to unschedule us because its just too painful to have us on their schedule. It's more fun to have ND losing recruits to us because our academics/football proposition is demonstrably better year in and year out. It's more fun because losing to them is a worse alternative... to which we would be left with the pathetic self-reassurance; "Well, they are the #1 team in the nation." Talk to me again when all the buzz is how Stanford is rated lower nationally because we keep Northern Indiana Parochial College on our schedule.