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No need to build something new in Dallas. There's plenty of vacant space in the West End.

Don't mess with Roger. That man's a winner. But we could see a catfight between him and Jerry of Arlington.

I would love for it to be moved to Dallas but I don't think the people of South Bend will allow that to happen.

College football tradition was "started" in NOTRE DAME...but who wants to go to Indiana to see the COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME...i agree with it moving to dallas....or just moving it some where form ore of the country to enjoy....most good football now is in the south and i am sure more fans would go if it was closer......heck make it near WASHINGTON DC or make it in Atlanta...near the SEC championship game!!!!

Building a public attraction in downtown Dallas is one thing. Expecting fans to feel safe and have fun while they're IN downtown Dallas is quite another.

If it lands in Dallas how ironic would that be? Maybe they should build it across from the SMU campus and devote an entire wing to cheaters and NCAA probation. The Bobby Collins/SMU Memorial Death Penalty Wing has a nice ring don't you think? Of course they'll need a section to memorialize all the Dallas high school players that accepted money from Barry Switzer.

Deion Sanders should stick to selling bling bling Mr. T jewelry and leave the College Football Hall of Fame alone.

Yeah, nobody wants to go visit Indiana especially. Its like going to North Dakota, or Wyoming.

In South Bend, the college football Hall of Fame is tarnished by being too closely associated with one university. Honestly, other than Notre Dame fans who happen to be in South Bend for a game -- who the heck has ever been to the College Football Hall of Fame? Remember, there are really only two kinds of people in the world: (1) those who love Notre Dame football, and (2) those who hate it. The second group probably makes up the majority of college football fans in the country. Why should they be asked to trek to South Bend to visit the Hall of Fame? It's like asking Boston Red Sox fans to drive to NYC and walk across the street from Yankees Stadium to see the Red Sox Hall of Fame.

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Originally posted 11:37 AM ET  04.14 by Victor Welch

In South Bend, the college football Hall of Fame is tarnished by being too closely associated with one university. Honestly, other than Notre Dame fans who happen to be in South Bend for a game -- who the heck has ever been to the College Football Hall of Fame? Remember, there are really only two kinds of people in the world: (1) those who love Notre Dame football, and (2) those who hate it. The second group probably makes up the majority of college football fans in the country. Why should they be asked to trek to South Bend to visit the Hall of Fame? It's like asking Boston Red Sox fans to drive to NYC and walk across the street from Yankees Stadium to see the Red Sox Hall of Fame.

have you even been to the HoF? i live less then a half hour away from it. and if you've been to it you'd know that its not a Notre Dame schrine at all. its not biased to any college whatsoever so sayin that its like the red sox having a HoF in NYC makes no sense in this situation.

Not sure if Dallas city council members could ever get anything done, lost the Cowboys, lost the Cotton Bowl, but I agree with all the empty buildings down there or move it to Fair Park to make it more enticing to visit.

You don't move a Hall of Fame! Are you going to take the baseball HOF out of Cooperstown, and move it to NYC, just because the Yankees are baseballs greatest team? Are you going to move the NFL HOF out of Canton? Of course not. Like people say, you either love or hate Notre Dame, but they are still very significant. Leave it where it is, and make the trip if you want to see it.

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Originally posted 11:50 AM ET  04.14 by irishfan09

have you even been to the HoF? i live less then a half hour away from it. and if you've been to it you'd know that its not a Notre Dame schrine at all. its not biased to any college whatsoever so sayin that its like the red sox having a HoF in NYC makes no sense in this situation.

I have been there and you are exactly right, it isn't biased one bit.

Call it quaint. It's part of out heritage. It makes it special.

The pro football Hall of Fame is in Canton Ohio. America can tolerate football museums not being in New York.

I vote for leaving it as is. Let's not slay every tradition.

I've been to cities big and small. Traveling to small towns is a delight. I love the smiles, the eye contact, the fact that there are no maps but everyone has five minutes to give you directions. People should see the heartland to recharge their manners.

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Originally posted 12:28 PM ET  04.14 by KingFootball

I have been there and you are exactly right, it isn't biased one bit.

King, thank you for this on-site report.

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Originally posted 12:45 PM ET  04.14 by Huitzilopochtli

I vote for leaving it as is. Let's not slay every tradition.

Awfully sentimental for a diety that was prepared to sacrifice a four year old girl. Getting soft in your old age?

If it is about MONEY, then move it to Dallas or another big football city that can and will support it like Dallas would. IF it is about tradition and money (or attendance) does not matter all, then leave it where it is, across the street from ND stadium under the shadow of TD Jesus. I have been there more than once and found it to be slightly biased, but not as much as I really expected to be honest. According to my big Golden Domer donor source, for it to be in South Bend, it has to be somewhat biased to keep those same fans returning, but a few more years of ND being a non-factor in the NCAA football scene and it will have to move on to more fertile grounds.

I Have been there a few times and i love it. It was great when Jerry Rice was enshrined and they had there flag football game, i wasn't but five feet away from the field as they played. If you love college football you will love this place, and dont be shy even if you hate ND you will love the campus and ND stadium. It's like this i hate the yankees but i loved yankee stadium, im not a cubs fan but how can you not like wrigley? There just some special place's in sports and ND is one of them, so come visit south bend there's more hear then you think.

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Originally posted 01:37 PM ET  04.14 by JRM74

Awfully sentimental for a diety that was prepared to sacrifice a four year old girl. Getting soft in your old age?

I wasn't really going to sacrifice her. I always have a line of substitutes ready from the neighborhood association, church, etc. I swap them at the last minute. The kids get a a bunch of gifts for being on the show, an autographed birth-to-death mask just like mine, and a DVD of their appearance. They all love it.

Plus it solves problems for me. As you can tell Germ, I am very much into the win-win scenario. The thing about killing most of my 400 brothers, well, I've learned from that.

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Originally posted 02:04 PM ET  04.14 by Irish357

I Have been there a few times and i love it. It was great when Jerry Rice was enshrined and they had there flag football game, i wasn't but five feet away from the field as they played. If you love college football you will love this place, and dont be shy even if you hate ND you will love the campus and ND stadium. It's like this i hate the yankees but i loved yankee stadium, im not a cubs fan but how can you not like wrigley? There just some special place's in sports and ND is one of them, so come visit south bend there's more hear then you think.

Get our your beer cans.

Perhaps we should not hate Notre Dame, but hate the way it has been hyped. Perhaps hate the TV contract. Certainly in the days of three TV channels it did exercise a near monopoly on college football. Should we hate the school for that? The venom-filled bloggers are my targets. Not the school or its traditions.

If I see a Notre Dame administrator take out TV commercials to tell me there is a "mystique" about Notre Dame a la Jerry Jones, then I will antipathy because of someone trying to install a belief.

The CFHOF is in a charming place, I hope we can separate our feelings and support that.

It's not clear how a move to SMU improves anything.

A few of you have pointed out that one would never think of moving the baseball or pro football HOFs from their locations. The baseball HOF is in Cooperstown and the Pro Football HOF is in Canton because those locations have close ties to the origins of the sport.

Can one of you please tell me, then, why the College HOF isn't in New Jersey, which is where Rutgers and Princeton played the first College game? If you can't give me a solid answer for that than you can't use the "baseball is in Cooperstown and football is in Canton and therefore college football should be in South Bend!" argument any longer.

I'm betting other cities come out with bids before its all said and done. Unless South Bend has the economic muscle to put together a comparable package, start boxing up the memorabilia.

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Originally posted 09:40 AM ET  04.14 by j10eff

College football tradition was "started" in NOTRE DAME...but who wants to go to Indiana to see the COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME...i agree with it moving to dallas....or just moving it some where form ore of the country to enjoy....most good football now is in the south and i am sure more fans would go if it was closer......heck make it near WASHINGTON DC or make it in Atlanta...near the SEC championship game!!!!

Why don't we put in on a bunch of flat-bed trucks and we can move it to some community in the conference that is doing well at the time? Does that sound stupid? Well if the best college football is being played in the SEC, then why in God's name would we move it to Texas? If you move it to Washington DC, then west-coast fans will complain because it's now even further. You are as short-sighted as the idiots who will scream for a CFB playoff all the way up until the time that their team has to leave sunny weather to play a play-off game north of the Mason-Dixon line in December.

There isn't even a major BCS conference school in Dallas! Sure, Dallas is way more populated than South Bend, IN but it's not more populated than Chicago. . . who at least does have a BCS Conference school (Northwestern).

College football was big long before there even was an SEC. It started in the Ivy Leagues with Harvard and Yale but shifted to the mid-west, with Notre Dame and Michigan leading the way. Soon after schools like Ohio State and others joined in. This is back in a time with leather helmets, long before face masks. If you notice, it's Michigan, and Ohio State that had the massive 85K+ stadiums built in the 1920. . .not SEC schools who followed later putting one foot in the water and errected 50k seat stadiums and only later over the decades expanding them up into only the 70-80K capacity range.

Hall of Fames are about history. Notre Dame is a big part of CFB history and even though I hate them too. . .I can at least admit that.