Notre Dame's move to ACC didn't make losers out of Big East, Big Ten and BYU

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Knute Rockne's innovations (motion backfield, forward pass, substitutions) played an enormous role in their success during sports Golden Age after which, ND no longer needed to make concessions to anyone.

Much of what you say about ND may be correct. But I know two of those three innovations are not from Rockne. The forward pass predates the 1924 ND championship team. Was legalized in 1906 and was gaining popularity in the 1910s. I also know they did substitutions in the first decade of the 1900s. Let's not give Rockne too much credit!

 

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Rockne was the first to use the forward pass as normal part of the offense (and TDH is hoping that one day we will do the same) and was also (as you pointed out) the first to use substitutes as an actual strategy, not merely to replace an injured player.