From a branding and/or marketing perspective, Notre Dame versus LSU is as good a bowl match-up as it gets. Forbes recently rated Notre Dame’s football program the second most valuable in the country at $122 million, behind only Texas ($131 million value), with the notation: “A single home game attracts almost 62,000 visitors from outside the South Bend area; on average, each … [Read more...] about Notre Dame vs LSU: Music City Bowl news and notes
Archives for December 2014
Notre Dame football Bowl game nuggets, tidbits
The Notre Dame football community has a bowl game to get geared up for. In just over 24 hours or so the Music City Bowl versus LSU will kick off. There's story lines galore, as we profiled in our previewish-kind of thinggee which we published yesterday. Also, there's a lot of "first day guys" in the 2015 NFL Draft and 2016 NFL Draft, as profiled here. That said, let's move on … [Read more...] about Notre Dame football Bowl game nuggets, tidbits
Notre Dame vs LSU: future NFL talent playing in Nashville
This year's Louisiana State team entered the year having lost more players to NFL Draft early entry than any college football team in history. There's still a ton of potential first rounders all over the roster though. Their opponents in the Music City Bowl, Notre Dame, have a top ten prospect on their OL. There's going to be a ton of NFL talent on display in Nashville on … [Read more...] about Notre Dame vs LSU: future NFL talent playing in Nashville
Radamel Falcao opens up about why he left Atletico
Last week Radamel Falcao proved his match fitness and finally worked his way towards earning a permanent place at Manchester United today with that beautiful header versus Aston Villa. It provided the only scoring for the Red Devils as they ended up with a 1-1 draw at AVFC. The back-story of how Falcao got here is quite interesting though. He opened up about how he knew his … [Read more...] about Radamel Falcao opens up about why he left Atletico
Jets fire Rex Ryan in way that shows NO CLASS AT ALL
Rex Ryan and the New York Jets will part ways after Sunday's game. (Ryan himself has known this for quite some time) Multiple outlets, who are very close to the organization, are reporting this. Jets GM John Idzik will be out of a job as well. Come Monday, (apologies of the Jimmy Buffett reference) this news will be made official. The NFL's "Black Monday" has claimed it's … [Read more...] about Jets fire Rex Ryan in way that shows NO CLASS AT ALL
Mike Shanahan: most logical replacement for Marc Trestman
Mike Shanahan appeared completely out of nowhere to do a TV hot on ESPN Sunday NFL countdown a couple days ago. Until then, Shanahan had kept a very low profile so his appearance conveyed the idea of a stump speech campaigning for a head coaching job- the Chicago Bears Head Coaching job. … [Read more...] about Mike Shanahan: most logical replacement for Marc Trestman
Marc Trestman: seven potential replacements for Bears coach
Is this the end for Marc Trestman, the NFL version of "painfully awkward Rob Lowe?" (Credit that joke to @MattLindner) It's all but official now that Trestman will be indeed canned like a tuna come Black Monday, December 29th. And Bears GM Phil Emery is not totally safe either. His job is insecure. So who replaces Marc Trestman next season? … [Read more...] about Marc Trestman: seven potential replacements for Bears coach
Bears will fire Marc Trestman; Phil Emery’s future in doubt
Chicago Bears Coach Marc Trestman is done for; and GM Phil Emery is on the rocks. According to the NFL Network, the coaching believes they will all be canned, and Emery could go either way. There will be either a staff meeting tonight, or tomorrow morning, and Trestman is to become a casualty. We've all known this here in Chicago since December 16th (WSCR 670 The Score had … [Read more...] about Bears will fire Marc Trestman; Phil Emery’s future in doubt