Who Will be the Next Coach at Notre Dame

A team should have to have seven wins versus Division I-A programs to get to a bowl game.

 

I'd be all for that, but with the spread of pussy scheduling and D-IAA opponents, the bell curve distribution of W/L records, plus the number of bowl games now in existence, no way in hell would there be enough teams to fill the open slots.

 

Bill Koch at the Cincy Enquirer seems to hint that Brian Kelly might be pushing for those academic "exceptions" before he pulls the trigger. Couple that with Schad's latest on ESPN.com, and sounds like ND is trying to hire Kelly but, if not, Randy Edsall is the fallback option:

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/uc/2009/12/09/kellys-options/

 

I'll go a bit further, Zag. Make them win 7 games, and eliminate the gobbedly-gook of manufactured bowl-games. Make it fucking harder to earn a bowl invite.

B(C)S championship
-Rose
-Orange
-Sugar
-Cotton
-Fiesta
-Cap One
-Outback
-Gator
-Alamo
-Liberty
-Holiday

Those bowls, to name a few, should be the ones to be retained. Bullshit bowls like Meineke Car Care, Emerald, and the Little Caesar's should be eliminated.

 

If he doesn't get the exceptions he shouldn't take the job.

The belief of the poohbahs at ND that their school is the Harvard of the Midwest is laughable.

Notre Dame is a good private university but it is light years from Ivy League.

 

Have you seen their entrance qualifications lately? I don't get it, because it's essentially an undergraduate business school without a real strong humanities or science curriculum that I'm aware of, but it's TOUGH to get in there. It's a top 20 university annually in U.S. News & World Report.

 

Acceptance rate at UND is 26%, Harvard is 8% (Ivy range is from 8 to 16), Georgetown is 18%.

 

Interesting. I'm surprised it's that high. I wonder if it's a self-selecting audience of some sort? i.e. Good students at Catholic high schools are steered that way.

 

And legacies

 

The single most useless, misrepresented statistic in enrollment management. In an era of "The Common Application" (which can completely distort gross applicant numbers), to what individual institutions even consider / report as "applicants" (special interest applicants, non qualifying athletes, employee offspring, applicants from consortium institutions, talking targeted applicants into "withdrawing" applications). Frankly, ND massages it numbers....plenty...to get it down to 26%. Plus, without knowing what an institutions discount rate is (in other words...are they buying students), you're looking at acceptance rate in a vacuum.

 

Waylon, Notre Dame has one set of entrance "requirements." It's 16 academic units, with specific disbursement of courses. That's NOT the same as the "middle 50%" stats they publish. That leaves 25% of their incoming class that (depending on PLENTY of circumstances) that can be WELL below those figures. Plus, many schools choose to not even include "special interests" in those reported (GPA, test score) figures. ND is (in)famous for having a rather.....um, large....group of "special interests."

It's not an easy school to get into, but it's not even in the same conversation as the truly "elites."

 

And the Ivies don't play for the National Championship.

What teams that play in the Bowl Championship Division are tougher to get into? Maybe the service academies, Stanford Duke, Northwestern. Any others.

Getting into Notre Dame is no cakewalk.

What school has won a National title in the last 20 years that's harder to get into than ND?