Thanks Tex that means a lot coming from you.

Damn, that is fantastic, well done.

Had he really had anything to say, it would have been accomplished in a more coherent fashion, but alas, no one forwarding the opinion “ND should join the B1G” actually has a good argument. So, plea (beg) it is….

Actually, I think you misread his comment. He’s saying that we’ll only schedule *quality* non-ACC games, so we’ll be playing traditional powers like Texas, Texas A&M, Stanford, USC for our non-ACC games.

You left out SC as part of your computation, but I see where you’re going. I really disagree that we wont see any powerful non-ACC matchups after 2014. You forget that we have Texas on for ’16-’18(?) and that Jack seems to be very eager to schedule huge name opponents. It seems like he realizes the value in playing every year in either Texas or Florida as well as Cali and the eastern seaboard. Personally, I love the strategy and selfishly want more than just the one game down this way. I’d love to see a renewed rivalry with the Aggies and maybe a few games against Texas Tech/Baylor.

@NDTex (in case the reply button doesn’t look quite right)

I am dumb and a masochist and other things and I love Latin. I file this little alumnus thing into “pesonal pet peeve”.

With all due respect, Father, alum IS a word. It’s a general descriptor of an aluminum sulfate hydrate salt that has been used since ancient times for dying and for treating small cuts.

Yes, but only if it is an adjective.

Since Notre Dame isn’t admitting robots (as far as I know), there is no need for a neuter form of the noun, hence alumnus, alumna.

Alumno is the verb meaning to nourish or nurture. In the masculine, singular, perfect passive participle, it is rendered as Alumnatus. It became Alumnus as the -at- was elided over time. Hence, it means a lad who was nurtured or raised, in this instance by an institution of learning. It was subsequently given the feminine form of Alumna to reflect the fact that women were being similarly educated; but this change occured a couple hundred years after the word first appeared. By the same grammatical logic, the neuter form would be Alumnum – but that ignores fairly simple lessons of human biology. Alum, technically, is not a word, though it can be useful when referring to a graduate whose gender is unknown, or as Alums when referring to a group of graduates of mixed gender.

In Latin, Big Ten would be rendered Mortuus Finis… or Dead End.