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Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

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From a strictly financial standpoint- it would be in ND best interest to join Big10

They might not like sharing the spotlight with all the other big Midwestern Universities
 
Vowelguy said:
I think it's the ACC's active lobbying for one of its members (Miami) over another (ND).
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I'm confident that this is what he was getting at but I don't see how it holds water. All conferences lobby for their schools. ND is not a football member of the ACC. The lobbying in question was for football and only football.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
I'm confident that this is what he was getting at but I don't see how it holds water. All conferences lobby for their schools. ND is not a football member of the ACC. The lobbying in question was for football and only football.
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very fair...agreed...ND lawyers may be successful (enough) when parsing through the contract to renegotiate their affiliation or negotiate a cheaper settlement.

Does ND have any say as to which 5 ACC teams they play each year? ND should try to push for more control, as perhaps a few opponent changes could have led to a stark difference in SOS and SOR.

Their ACC lineup was weak this year...

10-2 Miami
8-4 Pittsburgh
7-5 NC State
4-8 Stanford (annual matchup)
3-9 Syracuse
2-10 Boston College
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm confident that this is what he was getting at but I don't see how it holds water. All conferences lobby for their schools. ND is not a football member of the ACC. The lobbying in question was for football and only football.
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ND is not an associate though. It is a full
member of the conference. And the conference advocated for one school over another.

Not exactly the same, but suppose the big East started arguing the Providence was more deserving of a NCAA Hockey bid than UConn?
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm confident that this is what he was getting at but I don't see how it holds water. All conferences lobby for their schools. ND is not a football member of the ACC. The lobbying in question was for football and only football.
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Look I’m no ND fan but I can absolutely understand where the Irish are coming from. They are still in the ACC in 24 sports. The ACC was lobbying for Duke too when they had a 0.1% chance of making the playoff. It wouldn’t have hurt to say something like “Pick Miami but we’d be happy for ND if they get in” or something like that.
 
goldendomer said:
At this point just to burn the ACC to the ground let’s roll
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Unless ACC was a good landing sport for UConn...I'm all for wrecking ACC...my concern is that it would lead to Big10, Big12, and SEC conferences getting even bigger which already causes issues with unbalanced regular season conference schedules, etc...
 
GampelGladiator said:
Does ND have any say as to which 5 ACC teams they play each year?
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No . It’s supposed to rotate thru all members.

NDs deal with Clemson is an attempt to circumvent that.

They likely are using the current kerfluffle to push their case
 
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Am I crazy in thinking that ND leaving would be beneficial to us?

Outside of football, ND is middling in everything else. Im pretty sure our basketball alone out draws all of their non football teams.

The 5 football game deal is also not that big of a deal when half of them are on NBC and the ACC gets no money for them.
 
BigTenFan said:
From a strictly financial standpoint- it would be in ND best interest to join Big10

They might not like sharing the spotlight with all the other big Midwestern Universities
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It always seemed that Notre Dame didn't want to get pigeon holed into being a Midwestern university. But, the Big 10 now includes schools on the east coast, Rutgers and Maryland, and west coast, USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. So maybe the Big 10 adds Stanford, a Notre Dame rival, and Notre Dame.
 
I'd sign up for this conference...included East Carolina as a thank you for Tristen!

Basketball squads will play a couple of Big East teams annually in non-conference.

Well...actually...I think it would be 'fine' for football...but pretty weak for basketball...

Nevermind...I guess...unless better than FB independence

Army
Boston College
East Carolina
Louisville
Memphis
Navy
North Carolina State
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Temple
UConn
Wake Forest
 
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I don’t understand conference politics so help me out here. Which of these 3 is realistic?
  1. ND goes to SEC/B10/B12 in non-football and stays independent in football like they’ve been doing
  2. They find a new conference for all sports
  3. ND goes to the Big East for non-football
  4. #3 happens, UConn sees an open spot in ACC basketball, tries to jump into it with an agreement that football has to come too?
 
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BigTenFan said:
From a strictly financial standpoint- it would be in ND best interest to join Big10

They might not like sharing the spotlight with all the other big Midwestern Universities
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Especially as ND's losses would mount playing more Big 10 schools
 
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