Notre Dame vs Texas

Mexico City would be epic. We have a huge fan base there, and Notre Dame would too because of the catholic population there.

But I don’t think we’d ever see that happen.

Look. We have to make this Mexico City thing happen.

Trips knows people, man.

I doubt this will happen, unless it gets done before Kelly actually goes through a season as ND coach.

If you’re not with us, you’re against us, Bob.

I doubt Muschamp would have a problem with this and if it goes down it’ll be interesting to see what years those games fall. The first openings would seem to be 2012-2013 coinciding with the Ole Miss series. Not terribly daunting when one judges those teams based on their current quality but compared to our previous scheduling pussilanimity? Brass balls.

Kelly’s recruiting strategy is going to be heavily focused on Texas, California, Ohio, Chicagoland, New Jersey and this Texas series plays heavily in that.
 
ND badly wants to re-establish a presence in Texas and California. The South is a tough area for them because so many of the students are woefully unprepared for college (1/2 of all Mississippi high school athletes are non or partial qualifiers) and the SEC holds sway over the rest.
 
Unlike playing a LSU or Arkansas, there’s an upside for Texas in that beating even a respectable Notre Dame team would be inordinately rewarded by the media.
 
Most importantly, it would be fun.

Who do you think will be coaching at Notre Dame when we play them?

I don’t want Kelly tapping in to UT’s Nigerian pipeline. Keep our borders safe. Put some minutemen up near Dallas and Denton.

The last decent group of players they had from Texas at ND was under the Davie/Willingham transition with Carlyle Holiday, et al. Davie was the only successful recruiter in the Lone Star.

A game in Jerry World with a return visit to Wrigley or Soldier Field would be cool (as a resident of Chicago would love).

Notre Dame hasn’t recruited well in Texas since Greg Mattison left in 2004.

Long term, this would be a great replacement series based every year in Dallas after the Okies finally get what they have coveted – switching to a home/home series in Austin and Norman.

Charlie Weis’ idea of getting back into Texas was to play Washington State in the Alamodome. I like Kelly’s idea better.

If we play them in Lourdes, they might have a chance.

Okie doesn’t want a home & home, they need the DFW pipeline worse than anyone.

The Mayan city of Chich’en Itzá.

Charlie Weis, surrounded by cheerleaders from both teams, offered as sacrifice atop the Temple of Kukulkan at halftime.

Made for television, and an inroad to recruiting the Yucatán Peninsula.

That would be like sacrificing Stretch Armstrong. There would be syrup everywhere.

“A game in Jerry World with a return visit to Wrigley or Soldier Field would be cool (as a resident of Chicago would love).”

I know the Chicago Cardinals played there, but Wrigley would NEVER happen… places is just too small. Soldier however would be awesome!!! Tailgating on the lake, and the new stadium is an excellent place to see a game… hope something like this would happen…

Sorry, the spaceship Soldier Field still feels new to me… even though it’s like 8 years old…

ChicagoTTU

Northwestern and Illinois are already trying to set- up games at Wrigley.

I agree though. Seeing the Longhorns at Soldier Field would be freaking awesome.

“When you look at the teams that carry the same mission [as Notre Dame], Texas does that obviously”

Dear god I hope not.

“The Mayan city of Chich’en Itzá.”

Man, I’m with Parlin. Let’s take this baby to the Yucatan.

One question and suggested answer. If we were to play in Mexico City or someplace south of the border?

Can we make riot punch?

Score settling should be a top priority here.

If I’m not mistaken, Notre Dame is the ONLY program that Texas has faced at least 10 times and come out with a losing record… The Longhorns are 2-8 against the Fighting Irish.

This must be remedied.

Horns are 3-8-1 vs Vandy (ugh)

whose mission is the following?

The University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation for the great achievements of human beings, but also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice, and oppression that burden the lives of so many. The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice.

what about this?

The mission of… is to achieve excellence in the interrelated areas of undergraduate education, graduate education, research and public service.

are they the same?

Good catch on Vandy… I had forgotten about that.

Of course, considering that the last time we played them was 1928, I’m not going to worry too much.

Drop the required history to 5 games and we’ve got scores to settle with Southern Cal (1-4-0) and Penn State (2-3-0). In fact, cleaning up the historical records against opponents wouldn’t be a bad way to schedule moving forward.

Do you guys know how expensive kidnapping insurance would be for the staff, players, and support personnel? I am not sure our poor little school could afford it.

I am in favor of playing Notre Dame as often as possible. They’re nowhere near making the changes they’d need to make to sustain a high level of success.

i’ll take that 1-4 record with USC. That one just doesn’t seem to bother me.

I think we should move some victories over Rice into the Vandy category. Let’s get creative here.

“Do you guys know how expensive kidnapping insurance would be for the staff, players, and support personnel? I am not sure our poor little school could afford it. "

Come on! I go to Chicago all the time. It isn’t that bad.

The thought of a Mexico City game leads inexorably to the image of stocky, glowering Mestizo women leading endless pack-trains of donkeys into the Zocalo, the beasts loaded with obsidian chess pieces, Chiclets and gender-indeterminate tweens to be sold at the game.

And that’s just for HenryJames.

i think New Orleans would be a good place for this game, get all those fat catholic girls from up north to compromise their morals….even it means me taking a chubby, i will suck it up

“all those fat catholic girls from up north to compromise their morals”

What morals? Haven’t you seen Kentucky Fried Movie?

“even it means me taking a chubby, i will suck it up”

Isn’t this the ag yell leader’s line?

I love arrested development references. I’m thinking Scipio probably looks just like Tobias too.

BE — +1

Scipio Tex: Analrapist.

Jerry World sucks! Rather have home and home. Tradition rules!

We’re going to schedule the game only to find out that just before gametime Kelly will have scheduled USC instead.

But yes, this would be allsome.

We owe Notre Dame a favor for taking that albatross Mike Haywood off our hands. To think that Weiss hired him thinking Haywood could recruit Texas.

He singlehandedly cost us our HISD pipeline in the 2005 class. Of course, several of those targets didn’t do much in college. So maybe it wasn’t a bad thing. But he was just awful as a recruiter.

I can’t believe I get to be the first to post this fond memory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNQ4WfP-wE

“We owe Notre Dame a favor for taking that albatross Mike Haywood off our hands.”

While we’re settling scores, we could play Miami (Ohio) and get even with Haywood AND Carl Reese.

If it’s in New Orleans, I’d pay money just to follow Trips around for a couple of nights.

Bail money.

I suggest Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Turkey.

I know Carl Reese wasn’t the greatest defensive coordinator, but I have fond memories of meeting him the year we recruited Cole Pittman. Lael Moore (maiden name), a childhood friend, was Mackovic’s assistant and remained as Mack’s assistant for his first year or two. One Saturday she arranged for PhxHorn, SLXpress, Jacque, and I to tour M-N pregame.

Our tour was the day of Cole Pittman’s official visit. He and Mark went into Mack’s office as Lael was showing us around the offices. At the time, future UT coed in tow, it was pretty exciting stuff. As we were leaving, we saw Reese. PhxHorn and SL casually struck up a conversation with Reese, stood in the halls of M-N, and shot the breeze with him until it was time to go to the game. Good times. Certainly an exciting time to be a Longhorn.

Hook ’em!

I hate Notre Dame. Let’s bounce a patsy and put them on the schedule next year.

Forget UL-Monroe or LaFayette. Beating ND is national television and brand promotion.