Exactly! We get past the dawgs and it is on! I'm sure Saban and Co. know how much beating ND means not just a BCSNC but the history as well! Add that to the fact that the media will be on this ND love fest untill the BCSNCG Bama will feel disrespected...not to mention giving Saban and Co. a month to prepare. Ask LSU,Texas,and Michigan State how well that worked for them.That's just fine! Hopefully, if we can get past the Gawga Dawgs, all that slobbering over ND will give us added incentive, as if we needed any. Hopefully, their #5 will win the Heisman so that will give us even more incentive to show that he really didn't deserve it. Joe Namath should have won it over John Huarte. Didn't Paul Hornung win it at Noter D. when they won 2 games the season he won it. Now he was a pretty good football player, but what did he do to win it? They've always been the media darlings. That's why I dislike them soooo much!:BigA:
Amen. It was nice while it lasted but welcome to the new era of Notre Dame: All World.It's not just you. The gushing is sickening and will continue non-stop for the next 45 days. Don't know how old you are, but anyone under about 30 years old has no idea how awful the national media are when Notre Dame is good. You're all about to learn . . .
ESPN owns a lot of the lesser bowls. They also now control the TV rights for the future playoffs as well.ESPN has an amount of power that 20 years would have been shocking. Not only do they televise all the BSC Bowl Games, they have a bully pulpit to promote the teams that would bring the highest ratings. Everytime I hear people talk about how they are so glad so and so game is not on CBS or NBC anymore I just shake my head. I liked it much better when the Bowl games and conferences had the power and each network went all out to promote their "Big Game(s) with a parade in the morning." I believe ABC had two of them, the Rose and the Sugar. NBC had the Orange Bowl and later the Fiesta, CBS had the Cotton Bowl until Fox got it.
Of course ESPN will gush over the Irish, and Bama too, which would most probably break ratings records if it does end up the game. ND brings a huge following, with Bama the next best in the nation. It would be a bonanza.
Doesn't ESPN basically own the Birmingham Bowl game? The Sham Bowl.
I strongly dislike 50% of the entire power in their hands. 50% the NCAA 50% ESPN, unhealthy and 100% profit minded. And the super confernces is partially fueled by the ESPNESPN owns a lot of the lesser bowls. They also now control the TV rights for the future playoffs as well.
I wouldn't leave the schools/conferences out of that equation, granted they are the ones that make up the NCAA. They are just as complicit and equally want to profit, which I really don't have a problem with when you look at things. It could be like the basketball contract where the NCAA basically gets everything, and the schools get very little.I strongly dislike 50% of the entire power in their hands. 50% the NCAA 50% ESPN, unhealthy and 100% profit minded. And the super confernces is partially fueled by the ESPN
monopoly in TV contracts.
At least we won't hear them clamoring for player payment any time soon. They will want to keep the NCAA as happy as they can allow themselves.