HIZZ_HONOR said:
Let me see “do I think team really care what bowl games the go to ?.. Cotton, Chick-Filet pays $3-4 million to participating conferences, $18 million for the BCS games and $22 million per participating conference for the championship game....yea, I think they care.
This would be a great reason to play Notre Dame if the athletic director was playing, he would be highly motivated. The players don't care about how much money the university makes from a bowl game. To suggest they do is pretty stupid. Players want to play for a National Championship, and to lose that opportunity is devastating to them=letdown. If anyone watching the game today thinks the "they will be pissed" handicapping theory is better than the solid reasons I gave to take Notre Dame...well, some people can't be helped. Hopefully some people who read your post read far enough to see there were good reasons to take Navy today instead.