Nothing confirms your favorite school has had an exemplary pigskin campaign worthy of continuing on to the post season and competing in a heralded bowl game . . .
. . . like a trip to the Sunshine State to play two days before Christmas when guys who are actually football fans and might be watching won’t, because of their tradition with high school pals to meet up for lunch that day at Twin Peaks, have more than a few brewskis then head off to the mall to pick through the remnants for their holiday gifts . . .
. . . to participate in the great great great grandson of their bayou cousin’s Poulan Weedeater Tart Mayo on Potato Bowl . . .
. . . against Toledo, a team a level lower that didn’t even make its league’s title game . . .
. . . than competing in the heralded Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans.
Let flatulence reign.
Literally.
Figuratively.
If Jeff Brohm has enough players of consequence to beat the Mud Hens, er Rockets, will he be doused with a big ol’ platter of Bush’s Best Bourbon & Brown Sugar Grillin’ Beans?
Tune in.
Yes, Cardinal fans that’s what that late three game meltdown has wrought.
A trip to a bottom feeder bowl for a Cardinal team that once upon a time beat two of the dozen CFP participants.
Gaseous Emissions indeed.
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I have a good pal, huge football fan, a fellow for whom there is no gray area on any issue. It’s black or it’s white. For him or against him.
He’s got nicknames for oh so many things. I mean he still refers to a HS sweetheart not by her name but “Prom Date.”
He is not a fan of the Fighting Irish.
To say the least.
Whom he not so delicately (or cleverly) calls Notre Puke.
It is now appropriate.
It is difficult for me to even configure a reasonably publishable worthy take on Pete Bevacqua.
Who is the former TV exec now AD at Notre Dame who claims his school’s relationship with the ACC has been permanently damaged.
Which school is renowned for its unworthy sense of entitlement and privilege.
Which school is the lone one in the land with its own national TV contract.
Which school has dazzled the CFP makers and shakers such that, starting next season they get an automatic bid to the CFP if they are ranked in the top 12.
This AD of the school that has bled more perks out of successes in ancient times hundreds of years before the dawn of history . . .
This AD whose school’s golden image is such that a conference is willing to allow them an associate membership so football can remain independent . . .
This arrogant, supercilious, patronizing, haughty, pompous SOB had the audacity to blame the ACC for what he condescendingly believes to have been an untoward campaign lobbying against ND in the CFP on behalf of a full time member, Miami.
Which, we all know, beat his Irish straight up.
Gimme a friggin’ break.
And, pardon me, I gotta go out and match his hurl with some of my own.
— c d kaplan
Agreed, They played two decent teams in the whole season and lost to both
“Arrogant, supercilious, patronizing, haughty, pompous …condescending,” doesn’t completely do this justice.
Words fail me.
I’m not a Notre Dame fan, but I think we have to accept that they do deserve the clout they have in football. “Why?”, you may ask. Well…because they have it, and they maintain it. I would imagine that they have easily the largest fanbase in the country, and ultimately that trumps on field championships. It’s the moolah. The eyeballs they draw. Their clout is waning (this CFP snub is example A), but to whatever degree they can maintain it, then it has to be considered as earned. It actually makes it more fun to play them, and especially more fun to beat them.
Now on to a much more troubling bit of information…
Beating Kentucky always makes everyone happy. Even when Kentucky has a losing record (twice), sucks (twice), and their players quit (twice), and it isn’t that much of an accomplishment. It also can mask troubling facts. Those ugly facts also can be lost in the not insignificant, but not nationally relevant general opinion that at Louisville 8 or 9 wins is considered a good season. Until you get smacked in the face with a bowl of baked beans.
ACC record/finish
2023 7-1 2nd place (Satt’s players?)
2024 5-3 6th place
2025 4-4 7th place (tied)
Three years in, which is supposed to be a culmination of good coaching and player/program development, and this thing is traveling in the wrong direction…so far. The ACC has been pretty bad this whole time. Very concerning. Pretty ugly.
Will be fascinating to see if reports are true that Brohm is getting extension and/or raise.
I read a rumor somewhere that rather than more money for himself he wants more money to pay players. If true that’s cool. He’s three years into a six year deal, so unless you’re thinking of not keeping him an extension at this time is appropriate. It’s important for recruiting, stability, etc. I hope they don’t go beyond two or three additional years at this time. I don’t care if he wins this garbage bowl or not, 8 or 9 wins is not acceptable when he’s going 4 – 4 in the weakest Power 4 conference, and losing games due to obvious poor coaching, not because he is at a talent disadvantage. Getting to 9 wins beating a terrible uk team at home and Toledo in a goofy bowl game is just an inflated number.
Not to give any support to Notre Dame, but to me its not ND vs. Miami, but how does Alabama get in? I would have the Irish in over Bama. Talk about the politics of it, 5 teams from the SEC? If there are 4 ahead of you in your own conference, I’m sorry but go play in the Boca Raton Bowl.
Agree. Bama should have been left out.