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Message: [QUOTE="kingdobbs, post: 3625597, member: 1655"] I don’t even think there’s any question how the relationship exists and will continue going forward. Both sides understand that these are extenuating circumstances, and that while the Irish are at best a football partner to the ACC, it helps both the Irish and the ACC football membership to have a temporary arrangement that will benefit everyone during these “uncertain times”. The Irish won’t have a giant hole blown in their schedule, and while they won’t get Navy, USC or Stanford, there’s five teams in the current ACC that the Irish have played in at least 20 seasons (BC, Pitt, Miami, UNC, Ga Tech). Give them Syracuse for another game in the “subway alumni” region, Clemson for the national attention, Louisville for a close by matchup, Duke or Wake for a challenging but probable win, and UVA or Va Tech for another strong matchup. Then let them work out their +1 to get a fellow independent like BYU or Army a game, or use them in leverage with the SEC to negotiate a +1 deal for the league across the board to give someone like LSU or Bama a big NC game since they don’t really have an out of league rival like SC-Clemson or UF-FSU. Then whenever COVID calms down, both sides can pretend like none of this ever happened. [/QUOTE]