The ND brand in football is strong and has been for generations. They got ahead of the curve and found ways to build on it to what it is today. It's amazing to see what they built when you look at the overall picture.
I hope someone passes along this idea to the higher-ups pronto. Shocking that no one's thought of it or made any efforts to achieve it in the past 12 years.
They just made over $14 million (before the last game!) that they get to keep, while all the others schools have to share with their conferences. They’re always going to do what’s good for them.
At one time it definitely was. One major problem lately (past few years) is a lack of competent head coaches. Back in the day when Big East women’s basketball boasted having Geno, Kevin McGuff, Harry Paretta, Kim Barnes Arico, a young Doug Bruno, Melanie Balcomb, and Jim Fannery. All of them produced some very very good teams. Nowadays it’s just Geno and Flannery. If you’re asking why all those coaches left is simple, Big East coaches, with Geno being the exception, are not paid enough compared to other conferences. This has been endemic in women’s athletics in general in the Big East Conference for many years and ultimately, as I have already posted in other threads, will be the downfall of the Big East Conference, as far as being competitive with P4 and P5 women’s athletics teams. I mean, Seton Hall for example, has their women’s basketball team play all their games, in what’s basically a high school gym.
The state of Connecticut definitely contributed some of it’s best high school players over many years to Notre Dame football, Drew Pyne, John Sullivan, and Peter Demmerle, among others.
Boy, I bet Dave Benedict never thought of that. I wonder why he hasn’t done anything about getting into a P4 conference?
