
Originally Posted by
clowncar
I am not sure where you guys heard that Notre Dame was considering turning this bowl game down. That was not the case at all. Notre Dame was offered spots in several different bowls.
They were supposedly offered spots in the armed forces bowl in fortworth and the independence bowl in shreveport as well as the hawaii bowl and CHOSE the sheraton hawaii bowl.
Also , while there is always a chance that notre dame kids treat it like vacation , what do you think cincinnati was doing in their finale when their bcs game was already wrapped up ? That game was almost meaningless to cincinnati and had hawaii not committed so many cheap shots to wake the bearcats up , the warriors would have won.