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More trouble in ACC paradise?

Notre Dame, take a good hard look.

Knute Rockne is not walking in the building. Neither is Digger Phelps, who despite his outsized persona, made one Final Four.

The day is coming when ND will be forced to accept that they can no longer command an exclusive national TV contract for football. Then, finally, they will kneel at the altar of the Big Ten.

Full Disclosure: I refuse to refer to the conference as the B1G (such an arrogant moniker).
 
huskymedic said:
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The AAU thing is about as important as being President of the science club matters on your college application.
Does it help a bit? Probably.

But no one with an A+ average is getting turned down because they weren't president and no one with an F average is getting in because they were.
 
Viet Vet said:
Notre Dame, take a good hard look.

Knute Rockne is not walking in the building. Neither is Digger Phelps, who despite his outsized persona, made one Final Four.

The day is coming when ND will be forced to accept that they can no longer command an exclusive national TV contract for football. Then, finally, they will kneel at the altar of the Big Ten.

Full Disclosure: I refuse to refer to the conference as the B1G (such an arrogant moniker).
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Comparing ND football to ND basketball history is ridiculous.
 
Viet Vet said:
Notre Dame, take a good hard look.

Knute Rockne is not walking in the building. Neither is Digger Phelps, who despite his outsized persona, made one Final Four.

The day is coming when ND will be forced to accept that they can no longer command an exclusive national TV contract for football. Then, finally, they will kneel at the altar of the Big Ten.

Full Disclosure: I refuse to refer to the conference as the B1G (such an arrogant moniker).
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Fantasy Island. ND will always get a good TV deal, from NBC or elsewhere.

It is not going to join the Big Ten in football.
 
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Ha Who said:
Sears once ruled the retail world until they didn’t
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Notre Dame is Amazon.

You guys are going to go to your graves insisting that the time is coming for Notre Dame and then two days later, ND will play football on whatever exclusive network is currently paying them zillions of dollars.
 
not for nothing but has anyone seen ND's football schedule this year? I mean, it is awful.
in-conference alone is putrid outside of Miami:
UNC, Stanford, Miami, bcu, smu, cuse
 
Fishy said:
Notre Dame is Amazon.

You guys are going to go to your graves insisting that the time is coming for Notre Dame and then two days later, ND will play football on whatever exclusive network is currently paying them zillions of dollars.
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Amazon ruled until one day they don’t

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Jeff Bezos to employees: 'One day, Amazon will fail' but our job is to delay it as long as possible

At an all-hands meeting, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was asked what he's learned from the failures of big retailers. Bezos told employees that "Amazon is not too big to fail," and that the company must stay hungry.
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Kolumbo said:
not for nothing but has anyone seen ND's football schedule this year? I mean, it is awful.
in-conference alone is putrid outside of Miami:
UNC, Stanford, Miami, bcu, smu, cuse
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Seems like they could benefit from playing a scrappy, upstart Independent.
 
Kolumbo said:
not for nothing but has anyone seen ND's football schedule this year? I mean, it is awful.
in-conference alone is putrid outside of Miami:
UNC, Stanford, Miami, bcu, smu, cuse
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Only two teams that will be good is Miami and BYU. The rest of the schedule is pretty weak. To make the CFP next year they will probably have to run the table. ND caused this issue by playing a majority of their games against ACC opponents as their “in conference” match ups. ACC is just not very good in football.
 
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JwittersPAC said:
Only two teams that will be good is Miami and BYU. The rest of the schedule is pretty weak. To make the CFP next year they will probably have to run the table. ND caused this issue by playing a majority of their games against ACC opponents as their “in conference” match ups. ACC is just not very good in football.
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They literally just have to finish in the top 12 and they are automatically included.
 
Fishy said:
They literally just have to finish in the top 12 and they are automatically included.
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Where did ND literally finish in 2025? I'm not saying ND won't make the playoffs and with its schedule it should finish in the top 12. Hopefully ND comes away with 2 losses from this group: Wiscy, Rice, Michigan State, Purdue. It has managed to somehow schedule the worst of the Big Ten and the ACC in the same year.
 
Kolumbo said:
Where did ND literally finish in 2025? I'm not saying ND won't make the playoffs and with its schedule it should finish in the top 12. Hopefully ND comes away with 2 losses from this group: Wiscy, Rice, Michigan State, Purdue. It has managed to somehow schedule the worst of the Big Ten and the ACC in the same year.
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With the agreement on the expanded playoffs, beginning in 2026, if ND finishes in ghe top twelve they automatically qualify (similar the the winner of a P-4 championship game).
 
Kolumbo said:
Where did ND literally finish in 2025? I'm not saying ND won't make the playoffs and with its schedule it should finish in the top 12. Hopefully ND comes away with 2 losses from this group: Wiscy, Rice, Michigan State, Purdue. It has managed to somehow schedule the worst of the Big Ten and the ACC in the same year.
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Inside the top 12.

It's a contractual obligation.

I'm not sure what you're arguing about.
 
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