They turned it into their home stadium and did not destroy the stands, field, or locker rooms in the process. Annoying to hear about the sea of red, yes, but more annoying that we let it happen. The bill the university would have if another team had pulled this off shows they are respectful.

Just say “Well, if NU was coming off a 5-7 season and Bob Davie was your coach, you’d have sold your tickets, too….”

I must make it clear I never made any reference to TCU in my comment or compared Boise State’s recruiting advantage to any school for that matter.

My point was that claiming “BSU provides NO RECRUITING ADVANTAGE” to be incorrect as it’s a region that is in rapid growth and a houses a new generation of football die-hards. It’s a place I’ll guarantee you’ll see the number of higher star recruits pouring out of at the end of this decade and when you have the resources of Notre Dame why not make some presence known there with an open date?

Actually MSU was 1 of 4 D1 schools to have never played a 1AA team until last year or the year before. Now ND (of course) USC and UCLA are the only ones.

Nebraska. Where the N on the helmet stands for Nowledge.

I’m also from the area. A game against TCU really would be all about the recruiting of DFW, central, and near-west Texas, not about the local stature (or lack thereof) of TCU. There would surely be huge local coverage of the game if it were at Jerry World, much more than there will be when ND plays Arizona State there. Kids like Jonathon Gray from Aledo or kids from Soutthlake Carroll or Euless Trinity or Dallas Skyline or Highland Park would get a little extra ND love. That would create inroads that the Texas schools would be fearful of.

I was going to say the same thing…in the Jack Nolan video, I distinctly remember Swarbrick saying that this year’s schedule is TOO tough and not something he is really interested in doing again. Look for it to tone down a bit more under his watch.

Yeah, ND vs TCU would be great for US, but TCU’s fan wouldnt really benefit much from it…

You mean you want BC off the schedule?

By all means, schedule the Dawgs! Have them play early in the season and replace the Michigan game. The last few years, Georgia has played poorly to start the season then finished strong. Then we get a win AND strong SOS!

BTW, all joking aside, I’m sick of Miami as well. Can we raise our standards and play schools that have fans with higher IQ scores than Jacory Harris’s interception totals…