Again, my point is despite all the revenue advantages, and name recognition these are school has recently won championships in the either of the big two sports. I called out a big fail.
ND is living on the golden years from the Silent Generation. They are, at best, a good team. They'll join the B1G within the next 10 years.
Please. Take ND's other sports or not, but are you really going to argue that ND being a basketball member had anything to do with the demise of the Big East, or is having anything to do with the purported potential demise of the ACC (although it's pretty hard in any event to rationally blame someone for causing something that hasn't happened).
Its not blaming ND. They didn't cause it. But the leagues that let them have their cake and have been targetted for consumption by other leagues. It hasn't happened yet, but hard to see the ACC staying together long term when some clearly want out. I'm just saying if the ACC ends up like the Big East, I'd be wary of letting them park their sports in your league if you have FB. Maybe in the Big East, where there is no FB they'd fit in better.
Biz, if I recall correctly the C7 were cutting it pretty close for total votes. Without Notre Dame they would've fallen short. But that's my recollection from 10 years ago.
It’s fear of the sleeping giant. We win at everything except football. They are sick of it.
Pretty sure that's always been the goal. B1G didn't want to do it in one big swoop because it will make them look like the bad guy conference destroyer when in reality they are. They took UCLA and USC, and will now wait for the PAC-12 to implode. All it will take is something like Colorado going to the B12. The destruction of the PAC-12 is similar to what happened to the Big East.
