It would be odd. Big East seems to be we're our admin are looking.
I always have to remind people that despite the small size of the state, Connecticut has as many people or more than Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas, and Mississippi, but unlike these states, UConn is the only school in the state competing at these levels. And if you compared it to even more states around that 4m population level, those states also have their viewership divided between 2 schools or more, like South Carolina, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, and Oregon.
I'm convinced we upgraded baseball/softball/soccer facilities at the direction of the B12. I highly doubt our baseball and softball facilities are better than all those in the B12.
With Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC, they might be better than some of them but Oklahoma State. O'Brate Stadium - Oklahoma State University Athletics is new and huge.
It was just stream of consciousness...I ended up with a final conclusion of 'Nevermind'...just a hellscape option if P3 takes the 'best' ACC programs and we join a new ACC conference...
Yes, agreed.
Then why would you expect ACC to do anything on behalf of ND that would cost the league millions, and secondly expect the league to do anything but what they did, which is politic on behalf of a fb member. They certainly weren’t going to say ‘would be nice if BYU got in’….
just some humor to keep the vibes light.
I think people realize it's stupid as s#$+ to take ND in for every single sport except by far their biggest brand, literally the one thing you'd want ND for
BYU is not a member of the ACC in 24 sports. Stop acting like ND-ACC have no relationship whatsoever. ACC makes a pretty penny off the ND brand when they face ACC opposition. An ACC without ND (even as a partial member) is much weaker than with. Maybe not a great idea for a conference already on life support.
If you are not the P2 then it's not stupid. B12 would jump at this opportunity. And it will only hasten the ACC's demise, if it actually happened, which I dont think it will.
ACC and ND football have no relationship whatsoever. Would ND be giving the ACC any of the money they'd get if the ACC lobbied for them and successfully? Hell no, so why should ND expect only one way benefits? It's their usual holier than thou coming out again.
Why is it not stupid? Especially after this current display of trying to have their cake and eat it too? Why would you want a school to expect to be half-in half-out and clearly expect more than they'd give in return, in exchange for full membership in all the other sports where ND isn't nearly as prominent? Football is the sport that would be the reason you'd want ND in your conference and they want special treatment for "tradition" because "we're Notre Dame!!"
Are we talking about the same thing? ND-ACC share a conference for 24 sports. Which produces revenue for the conference, albeit nowhere near what football would (obviously). The ACC owns the rights to ND’s away games against ACC teams = revenue. If ND moves their sports elsewhere, the ACC is in a worse position. That’s just a fact. Not to mention that an ND departure may embolden Clemson/FSU/UNC to make a move themselves. That conference needs stability, not news stories.
ND Football plays 5 ACC programs every year. That's the relationship which makes it worth it to the ACC. This year ND played at bcu, at Pitt, at Stanford. Next year ND plays at UNC, at cuse. Those games are big draws.
ND isn’t leaving ACC over this.
Conference realignment is about football, period. No one gives a rats about the other 24. As such, the ACC would not be worse off without them. ND is like locusts to any conference they join. They’ll eventually kill the crop. They did it to BE, they’ll do it to ACC.