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ND was minus Sam Hartman at QB, Audric Estime at RB and minus its four top receivers. ND had 19 players out for the Sun Bowl due to transfers and NFL declarations/opt outs. How many did Oregon State have? ND's offensive coordinator had left for the Troy head coach job and ND had fired its...

You won't ever (and have never) seen any official numbers from ND or NBC since both are private entities and don't give out that info. The inside "word" or the estimates range from a low of $50 million a year to a high of $65 million a year for ND's 7 home games. ND also received $17.4 million...

Most appearances in the Top 50: 8: Alabama, Georgia 6: Colorado, Ohio State, Washington 5: Michigan 4: Florida State, Notre Dame, Tennessee 3: Florida, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, USC So, that must mean that the fans of FSU, Tennessee, Florida, Nebraska, Texas, USC, and.....everyone else in...

ND received $17.4 million from the ACC per the 2022 ACC tax forms. (It received $22 million from NBC as well). The NBC deal ends in 2025. They are currently negotiating. ND gets a 1/3 share of the ESPN ACC TV deal and a 100% share of all ACC Network profits. I think that ND's best option...

Here are ND's legal entanglements regarding the ACC: --GOR until 2036 for all sports but football and hockey (No TV rights for those sports if ND exits). --Exit fee...$120 million. Some talk that ND's may be lower but that is doubtful. --Contract to play 5 ACC football teams per year...

How many do the other 125 or so schools have during that time, including Texas, Michigan, Auburn, Miami, FSU, Texas A&M, etc....??? Why are you singling ND out? Most schools have zero championships during that time. Only four schools (Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma) have a better...

No, they just didn't have the drawing power to survive conference realignment.

Want to explain why the other 15 schools (Big East) and 14 schools (ACC) could not and cannot get their own acts together to "save" their own conferences without ND ????

ND is 63-14 the past six years with two playoff berths. Does Texas have the same record?

The Big East killed the Big East. It had 15 other schools in it that could not perform or make good enough decisions or draw enough eyeballs to save their own conference. They were divided as well. They could not generate enough money on their own to survive. It wasn't ND's duty to abandon...

Sure. Just not in football. ND is going to re-sign with NBC for a big raise and stay status quo otherwise unless/until the ACC implodes. If that happens, UConn just might find itself in the same conference as ND, the Big East.

"Drew Pyne’s career with the Fighting Irish is over. After spending three seasons with Notre Dame, he announced his intentions today to enter the transfer portal. He finally earned the starting job this season after Tyler Buchner’s season-ending injury. Now, it appears their breakup was caused...

XLance is an old school Carolina poster who hates the fact that the ACC expanded with Northern schools at all. He wants a return to the old 9 school ACC. He hates all ACC additions since FSU/Miami.

They are 0-2. They played like ass. Hopefully, they will figure out how to win a football game. Their starting QB likely has a broken collarbone, making that figuring out much harder. How is that? P.S. That doesn't change any of what I wrote above, though.

Agreed. NBC will cross market both ND and the Big Ten. It even mentioned "a perfect one/two punch". NBC will up their ND payments to the reported $60 million. NBC will get ND to play Big Ten teams (maybe a scheduling deal of 3 a year?) ND will stay independent, get a $38 million dollar a...

Its not Flug or anyone on Twitter. It will be with ND related media. This is not unusual, except that usually nobody pays any attention to it. Flug is vastly overselling this, which is no surprise. He is on record saying ND to the Big Ten is a done deal. He is all in with this prediction.

The ND Administration will like that, if true. It only reluctantly has them now. They don't like the extra hours for drinking and the possibility of a rowdy crowd (not kidding).

Well, if Fogerty or McCartney legally signed over the rights to those songs for money to Sony or whomever, then those rights would have to be bought back. That is what the Grant of Rights is, by the way. It was created in and for the music industry and copied by college sports. So, McCartney...

Agree to an extent (not sure of loan forgiveness). If the Big Ten insisted that ND take a smaller payout for years AND entirely fund the $200 million plus ACC exit, I don't think that would be a winning pitch to secure ND into the Big Ten.

There is also the five football games a year deal and the "ND football can only join the ACC " deal. Both run through 2036. If ND breaches those deals, that would mean additional damages paid to the ACC.

FSU and all other public universities in the ACC may not have a copy...by design. ND and the ACC are both private entities. No Freedom of Information Act applicability in that case....on purpose.

1.4.5 Withdrawal of Members. To withdraw from the Conference, a Member must file an official notice of withdrawal with each of the Members and the Commissioner on or before August 15 for the withdrawal to be effective June 30 of the following year. Upon official notice of withdrawal, the Member...

ND is 54-10 the last five years with two playoff berths, but whatever. The reason is that only ND has the power and the money to make a difference to the Big Ten and SEC. It is the lynchpin for any future realignment. If it joins the Big Ten, all hell will break loose. If it stays...

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That contract is merely a speed bump if ND wants to leave the ACC. That would involve negotiations on what that promise was worth and what are the damages if breached. Unlike the GOR, it does not encumber TV rights. This would just be plain vanilla $$$ calculation, like the exit fee. And...

5 games a year was merely a compromise in 2012. ND wanted only 3 games, the ACC wanted full membership and 8 games.

Correct. Men's basketball is pretty much treated as a minor sport by ND. It is just something to watch in the winter between football season and the beginning of spring practice. Many ND football fans are fans of other basketball programs. ND basketball plays in an arena built in 1968. ND...

ND gets a full conference member share of ACC Network profits, about $5-7 million. It gets $10-12 million from the ACC/ESPN for its other sports. That is about $15-19 million a year. Add that to the hypothetical $75 million from NBC and you get to around $90-95 million a year for ND from...

The contract states that if ND football joins any conference before 2036, it must be the ACC. IF ND football joins another conference before 2036, it is in breach of that contract with the ACC. It would pay damages, probably a negotiated settlement. Staying independent and getting a big NBC...

Nobody is going to test the ACC GOR any time soon, not even ND (whose football program is not bound by it).

If ND can get that kind of money with an independent deal with NBC, then it doesn't have to pay a dime to the ACC to get that. Everything else stays the same. ND would get around $90-95 million a year (with ACC partial payment and ACC Network full share) and no legal fees, exit fees, GOR...

Upset? UConn did ND a favor by helping get rid of Charlie Weis. Thanks very much. ND has been on a constant upward trajectory since then. And, despite your statement, the rest of college football is waiting on ND to make a decision. Finally, I was responding to an ND post by AZHuskiePop, so...

It looks like ND is going to stay a football independent and see what the new 2025 TV deal will bring. ND isn't going to jump to the Big Ten, despite what everyone else thinks. ND doesn't feel any urgency and does not believe that it is "now or never". It seems comfortable with the status quo.

ND is really high on Marcus Freeman. He has ND recruiting at #1 for 2023 and #2 for 2024. He is 36 years old and a dynamite recruiter. ND didn't want to fool around and lose him to someone else. ND was hoping for stability and saving the 2022 recruiting class after Kelly left. Fickell's...

Kelly left because LSU guaranteed him $9.5 million a year for ten years. ND had tired of his annual flirtations and salary increase attempts and would not give Kelly another deal with three years left on his then current one. You mistakenly think that the "easier path" to the playoffs from ACC...