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Comments on: Is the Winning Move Not to Play? https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/ The Independent Voice of Notre Dame Athletics Fri, 11 May 2018 16:51:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mike Coffey https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11305 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:38:23 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11305 In reply to chaz.

37 percent is a pretty good number when you consider 13 percent of alumni requests will be fulfilled through their lottery.

Sorry, we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

]]> By: Biggest Fan https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11304 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:17:56 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11304 So fa, Diaco stays. WI is the scarry vacancy because of the Alvarez connection.

]]> By: Biggest Fan https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11303 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:16:02 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11303 Too may award banquets…Too much press and distractions. Now that week is over and next is final exams and Christmas break. The team needs to put the blinders on and focus on ‘Bama with no distractions. This will come down to coaching and, right now, I am aconvinced we have the best staff. Make it happen, Irish!!

]]> By: Bob McIntire https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11302 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:27:42 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11302 It’s about time Alabama had a real challenge!
Looking forward to getting a sec team out of their! GO IRISH!!

]]> By: chaz https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11301 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:17:37 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11301 In reply to Mike Coffey.

Mike
Three points … all yours.

1.”What about alumni and other people who have donated for a lot longer than three years whose money helped make the education of those students possible?”

I for one can’t buy the theory of alumni helping to defray costs of an ND education no matter how much money. Maybe for the under representented in the class of undergrads it is true. I would say you might be right. I am not on the list of parents who benefit from alumni making the education possible. We pay full tuition at 53K a year for an undergrad and we are very far from even being comfortable or just Ok with finances. Our choice was to do whatever it takes to get our first born son to ND if he was accepted and the choice and our efforts have never been regreted. As far as alumni status goes and donation counting…I wish someone would poll the alumni on how they felt about 37% of current ND students getting a chance to view a National Championship versus 63% getting left out.

2. Is it your position that the first 8,000 tickets should go to students?

Well Mike my heart says yes to 8,000 tickets going to students of the 17,000…my mind says those students who have bought season tickets for 4 years should have been put at the top of the list. Actually all students who bought season tickets from freshman year and up the line to senior year should have been in the lottery mix…no matter class year. From there you work down from Seniors with a full season ticket history to Juniors and Sophomores and finally Freshman. The number 8,000 would be obviously reduced from attrition…some ND students do not buy a season ticket and some ND students never go to a game – given the diversity of our ND student body with very distinct and noble paths for being here, not including football.

3. “so I think ND did the best it could distributing them, with the exception of Anthony Travel.”

Do not know the details of your exception to this travel firm but I can say ND did not do it’s best in student distribution. 17,000 ND ticket allotment….2500 or 3000 students getting tickets (reports vary). If you moved that number to 4000- 4500 and got priority to upper classmen with a full history of season ticket buying (an added 1000 to 1500 tickets) – I would not be posting right now. At that range we are talking about a quarter or more of ticket allotment going to students. Students who have been throught it all at ND…the ups and downs of the football program for 1 and 2 and 3 years.

Can you honestly tell me that is not within reason? If everyone wasn’t going to be satisfied by the 17,000 ND allotment why make the kids, our students, be the first ones on the chopping block. Seems to me they should have been the last to not get a chance at a first glimpse of a National Championship title game since 1988.

We love ND and always will but this ticket allotment pertaining to the student body is just wrong.

]]> By: Jack McGee https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11298 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:06:00 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11298 Some nice satire here today; clever.
Let’s take a sobering look at the facts: Sabin is a football genius and will assume nothing; Sabin has several excellent weapons in his backfield, fewer in the receiving corps. However, I think he will try to exploit his aerial game immediately and his greed will be his undoing. The Irish have not been aggressive in pass defense (see earlier post on “Rope a Dope” defense); on this day they will be going for the ball like they never did this season. The Tide likes to throw to the flats. So, as Ma’ Kettle used to holler in the old movies:
” Come and get it, boys.”
God bless the Irish.

]]> By: Mike Coffey https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11297 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:51:57 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11297 In reply to chaz.

What about alumni and other people who have donated for a lot longer than three years whose money helped make the education of those students possible?

Is it your position that the first 8,000 tickets should go to students?

17,000 wasn’t going to be enough to satisfy everyone, so I think ND did the best it could distributing them, with the exception of Anthony Travel.

]]> By: chaz https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11294 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:08:53 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11294 JV
The title should be…. the Winning Move Not to Play? and the shutout of ND students attending the NC game.

ND Juniors and Seniors were given the death sentence on tickets this year…some say 2500 …some say 3000 allotted to ND and Saint Mary students. ND got 17000 tickets in hand… Sorry if I am off topic here but as a parent of a ND Junior it is way sad to hear they “lossed” in the lottery.

JV
Please tell me you do not feel remorse for the student body with the tickets at a 37% success rate for ND undergrads…as stated by the ticket office. I think it is a true shame that we give so little to our base of student-fans to not be there for the NC in Miami. If we got 17000 we should make sure our students get the seats first off.

]]> By: tigerpaw066 https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11293 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:57:59 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11293 Hmmm….Last time these two teams met in a bowl game, it was kinda similiar. Mighty ‘Bama and the underdog Irish. I believe the Irish ended up national champions in ’73

]]> By: terry https://dev.ndnation.com/is-the-winning-move-not-to-play/#comment-11283 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:29:18 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=3597#comment-11283 I for one don’t think we have seen ND’s best all-around game.

I think Alabama will see it

Go Irish

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