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QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 11:36 AM) No, I am saying people will use their team playing there as an excuse to go there, not them randomly being here when their team is here. When my friends and I go see the Sox or Bears on the road, we choose the coolest cities/stadiums. We then go see the game(s) and then spend the remainder of our time exploring the city. You honestly don't think Hawks fans would plan trips to Vegas to see the Hawks play here? I just don't buy that whatsoever. Personally no, unless it was a playoff game or something. If I am going to Vegas im doing Vegas-type s***. Maybe not everyone is a big drinker and gambler.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 11:30 AM) Well, we'll agree to disagree. You live there, the novelty has worn off. If I go there I am experiencing what is unique to the city, not what I can see anywhere else. s***, sitting in a sports book in the casino watching the game sounds better to me.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 11:26 AM) You don't think opposing team's fans are going to choose Vegas as a road trip opportunity to see their team? I'm not saying this would overcome a low local fanbase, but I certainly think it would help. As for locals, they are fired up about a potential MLS team, let alone a "Big 4" professional team. What are you basing this on? Not really. I think there are many other things I would want to do in Vegas instead of watching a sporting event.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 11:02 AM) I thought what caused the ice to suck was humidity? I think the fanbase would be strong...people here are dying to get a real professional team...plus, you'd have a lot of opposing team's fans in attendance. I disagree with this. And I also dont think locals are dying for hockey.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 10:56 AM) Just curious...why? IMO not a great fanbase and the ice would suck

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 22, 2014 -> 04:12 PM) 1) yes. One has nothing to do with the other. They'll disconnect your cable coming in from the street and instead connect it to the dish. All internal wiring will remain the same unless you need some more installed. 2) I don't believe so. If you can't get a signal from the satellite, you can't get a signal. Plus, if you can't get HD, what's the point? With the new whole home DVR and stuff all the wiring will need to be replaced most likely. Trees do not effect the signal as much as people think

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 25, 2014 -> 07:12 AM) Aside from ND, I have attended two BIG universities and also taught math classes at two. The math classes I taught at both schools were well below the lowest level of math offered at ND. Wow, I didnt know you were a professor with 3 degrees.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 08:05 PM) Uses a ton of data, so you either need an unlimited package and good signal or a really solid wifi connection (also with good speeds). I have wifi.

Dammit. Lost Mickey Mitchell. That's what you get for treating his brother poorly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 06:17 PM) At a Catholic university? There is only one right answer. Whatever your tutor wrote for you.

So a girl from naked dating had her butthole and vag uncensored on TV, awesome. I wish they would release an uncensored version.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) And how does that give you any clarity into what people had to do at other schools. You will probably respond with, I did more then my friends at X school or Y school but again, there are many factors that would go into that response too, maybe you friends got bad grades, maybe they were less likely to exaggerate and thought everything was easy, I don't know. All I know is you are doing a hell of a lot of generalization. Like I said, I tend to believe there are probably less things brushed aside at many other powerhouse football schools then ND, but I don't know that anything you have posted validates that. Because other school's classes are bulls*** dammit!!!

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 04:41 PM) Well, I'm sure just about any college can tack terms like "literature" or "philosophy" on about any course, those courses at ND require an awful lot of writing and critical thinking. I was a math major and the amount of writing I had to do in all those classes was pure torture. How many other universities have you attended?

Later Gordo, i'll miss your defense.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 04:28 PM) What you posted on course load meant nothing. Literally nothing. You did nothing to differentiate that courseload from that of another college campus and as I pointed out, that load, like a lot of early freshman classes, included a good amount of fluff courses. Isnt theology a fluff course? I mean is there a wrong answer?

Who knows Slingbox? I am thinking of using it instead of paying for cable at my cabin. What version should I have?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:48 PM) Postseason rankings are much less biased than preseason or even mid-season. Still, over the entirety of the last 25 years, where would you rank ND's body of work? Is the 20-30 range fair? Even if you think it should be lower than 30, it's still going to be higher than Northwestern, Miami, or any other school you can come up with where athletes are held to similar academic standards as ND. Stanford is the only school in that group that has a football program that matches up with ND, even as bad as they have been since Holtz left. Once again, I dont agree with that. I dont even think Stanford holds their Athletes up to as high of a standard as their student body. Football is big money as is recruiting, athletes get their hands held at every turn, including at Notre Dame.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:45 PM) I'm not talking about the entire history of college football, but singling out a group of less than 60 individual games and using that as the standard is awfully restrictive. Since their last championship in '88, ND has had six top ten final rankings, including three top five. There are plenty of teams who have won BCS bowl games that can't claim that. Lol, really basing something on polls now? Talk about moving a target, especially one that has proven to overrate Notre Dame.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:38 PM) Come on dude, if you're going by that standard both Harvard and Yale are 1000 times more "special" than Notre Dame. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Army, Stanford, and Penn would fall into that 1000 times argument as well.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:37 PM) So in order to win your argument, you have to condense the entire history of college football into 4-5 games a year for the last 15 years. I guess if that's what it takes. Oh, we are going by the entire HISTORY of college football including the way academics were back then, why didnt you mention that? Thats make the diagram MUCH easier to build.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) I don't really have the time to look up all the schools. If there is a particular school you think that has similar academic standards for athletes AND football achievement as ND, I'd be happy to discuss it. So, Athletes that take classes, and zero BCS bowl wins. Got it.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:23 PM) I think I noted in an earlier post. There are schools that hold their athletes to high academic standards, and there are schools that have had a high level of success on the field. There are very few schools that have done both. I can make you a Venn diagram if you need it. Sure, and please list all the schools that make athletes take a liberal arts course load.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:17 PM) Well, the combined value of the living quarters of the 85 richest (non-freshmen) students did probably exceed the value of the athletic academic support center. SO if other schools also have rich students AND the players have to take actual course load, you would say they are the same standard as Notre Dame?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:11 PM) There's no point in even trying to discuss things if posters are allowed to act exactly like the police do in these situations... I would just LOVE to see all these examples of African-American officers shooting down white kids in the streets all over America. PLEASE, it has to have happened at least ONCE. LOLOLOLOLOL

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:11 PM) Well, if $500K homes two blocks from campus owned by their parents count as dedicated facilities, then yes. So no.