Brian Kelly and Brady Hoke after final yr"s Notre Dame-Michigan game. (USA As we speak Sports activities Pictures)
Notre Dame and Michigan is Saturday"s premier primetime game on the faculty football schedule as well as the location for ESPN"s School GameDay. Does that mean it"s a nationwide recreation? The coaches of every group disagree.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly says it"s a "massive regional" sport, while Michigan coach Brady Hoke disagrees.
From the Chicago Tribune:
"I really haven"t seen it as a type of historic, conventional Notre Dame rivalries," Kelly stated on a convention name. "I"ve seen it as just a kind of great soccer video games that Notre Dame has performed.
"For me, I have been in Michigan a long time, I"ve all the time felt the Notre Dame-Michigan game was an enormous regional sport. But within the Notre Dame historical past books, this recreation has (been) played, but clearly there have been some years the place it hasn"t been played for a number of years."
Kelly"s feedback are perhaps related to the truth that the game won"t be performed for the near future. The Irish"s trip to Ann Arbor is the final in who-knows-how-long; the last recreation scheduled in the sequence is 2014.
The groups have performed 40 times since 1887. While that"s a quantity that does not come near other rivalries, Hoke thinks the matchup of the 2 powers has national significance.
From MLive.com:
""GameDay" has been here six times for this football game," Hoke said. "That is pretty significant, in the event that they"re coming, whether it"s on this campus or in South Bend.
"So, it should have some type of national appeal."
National enchantment that maybe stems from Notre Dame"s television contract on NBC?
Whether Kelly likes it or not, due to that special stature of Notre Dame, little of what it does is regional and is instead national. With the proliferation of faculty soccer on TELEVISION, it"s a related argument to saying the SEC is a regional league. While SEC ardour is certainly enhanced within the areas that its groups play in, it"s develop into a national league given its BCS success and prominence throughout nationwide tv.
And sadly for school football, Saturday night"s game is just one of two left on the schedule. The (possible) finish of Notre Dame-Michigan is not alone due to conference realignment and the ending of other traditional rivalries, however simply because one thing is going on extra typically doesn"t mean it is the precise factor to do.
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