By Brian Hamilton
One offseason domino has fallen, officially, for Notre Dame: The Irish won't be bowling this winter.
After a meeting on Friday, athletic director Jack Swarbrick issued a statement to confirm what the Tribune reported in Friday's editions: That thanks to a slew of logistical issues and twin problems of motivation and destination, the Irish won't take part in a bowl game.
""After meetings again today involving our coaching staff as well as the leadership group representing our football team, we have made the decision to remove ourselves from consideration for any postseason bowl game this year," Swarbrick said in a statement.
One offseason domino has fallen, officially, for Notre Dame: The Irish won't be bowling this winter.
After a meeting on Friday, athletic director Jack Swarbrick issued a statement to confirm what the Tribune reported in Friday's editions: That thanks to a slew of logistical issues and twin problems of motivation and destination, the Irish won't take part in a bowl game.
""After meetings again today involving our coaching staff as well as the leadership group representing our football team, we have made the decision to remove ourselves from consideration for any postseason bowl game this year," Swarbrick said in a statement.
"Notre Dame institutionally always has been a strong advocate of
the bowl system, and we sincerely appreciate the bowls and individuals
representing them who reached out to us. However, the unique
circumstances surrounding our program at the current time prevent us
from making the commitment required to compete in a bowl game.
"If the landscape had been different, we would have been thrilled to take part - and we certainly look forward to being part of the bowl system in the years to come."
"If the landscape had been different, we would have been thrilled to take part - and we certainly look forward to being part of the bowl system in the years to come."
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Cold comfort!
Can you imagine? My son Tim, is crying his self to sleep every night because fat Charlie recruited my boy, sat in my living room and ate 4 Lil Ceasar pizzas, saying that when the Domers go 6-6 with 10 home games each year, they will indeed go to a classy bowl with all the fixins. My boy feels slighted! He held up his end of the bargain, why can't these freakish Indiana inbreaders do the same. He was going to be the next Rudy. He wanted 30 seconds of fame, and ND took that away. He is crying him self to sleep in his feety pjs and wetting his ND sheets. May God bless you all, everyone.
Tiny Tim
Um, don't you have to first have an INVITATION to decline play in a bowl game?
Pathetic - so arrogant they still have not learned.
Good thing they didn't join the Big Ten when they had a chance - they're pretty slow if they still think they're an elite program and that a mid-level bowl is beneath them.
Can we please move on and talk about winning teams who WILL be bowling this holiday season?
Doesn't this sound something like, "You can't fire me. . .I quit?"
COWARDS, plain and simple. The Irish are afraid to lose to a better team in a mid-level bowl, like Central Michigan out of the MAC.
What a class act by ND. The explanation from ND on why not to go to a bowl game is complete garbage. This type of leadership will never attract a top notch coach, EVER. Why would a coach want to go to ND ? Wait a minute, ND has always been know as the " flush and fat with cash university". Please ND, hire Mangino !!!!!! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Yeah, "logistical issues" --what a joke. Because, you know, it's so hard to get from South Bend to Detroit for the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl or whatever it's called now, which is about the class of bowl these losers would have been invited to.
No coach? So what? Many teams have played bowls in recent years with an interim coach.
Motivational issues? Please. I thought this was Notre Dame, where a mere sniff of Rudy's old used jockstrap was enough to get a young man to run through a brick wall.
Just curious whether anyone asked the players whether they wanted to play in a bowl game if offered? Seeing as how the university pimps them out for the $$$, it's the least they could do for the kids.
As for the cop-out re: logistical issues, et al., what a bunch of b.s.
Oh, NO!!! How will I survive the college bowl season without an appearance by the most overhyped, overblown, overrated program in all of sports? Is it still college football if Notre Dame isn't involved? Florida, or whoever wins the BCS championship, may have to have an asterisk placed by their name because they will have won it in a year when ND didn't participate in the bowl system.
For the good of the country, I think Obama should come to the ND campus and beg them to reconsider . . . oh, wait, he's not welcome there, is he?
Is Michigan going to a bowl game? NOT!
Go Bucks, beat the Ducks!
Why does the Tribune keep writing about these out of state teams when Northwestern is bowl bound at 8-4? Report on local and in state teams, not Indiana sports.
they don't deserve to go anywhere but home for the holidays. i wonder how many tickets they would have sold, not many i would think. what an embarrassing year.
Boy, you guys are sure dragging on them. At the university is using what little integrity it has left to say that "We're not good enough to be in a bowl game," even with the current system in which it seems every team with a pulse goes bowling.
Hopefully the players who will be returning next year will use this time to get their heads clear, focus on the task on hand while they wait to see who the new coach will be and then do better next year.
Lou, what are you talking about?? Go take your stupid comments somewhere else, before I take a dump on you!!
After watching ND play this year, "athletes" might have to be in quotations, as well as "student."
How long till the 2010 season openner again?? Hope the Irish use this time to get the program back on track! Lets go Irish!!