CTMike
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First things first - If you react angrily to any suggestion of ND being in a football conference, then move right along. This is just fanciful daydreaming. I'm channelling my inner HuskyFanDan.
Basic premise is this : IF ND were to ever join a conference... would they not prefer to do so on their own terms? In other words - if there is ONE team that could conceivably start their own conference and convince others to join, it's ND.
ND/Army/Navy/Pittsburgh/Boston College/Cinci/Louiville/Maryland/Virginia/Virginia Tech/Rutty/UConn
I don't pretend to know if those are all-sports schools... most are, yes? Anyway, just throwing that out there. Sub in and out as you think ND would see fit. Whatever teams you think fits ND's motives best. The above at least tries to preserve some traditional rivalries while leaving them room to schedule their others.
If ND approaches those teams and says "We are starting an all sports conference and taking it to the open market. You in?" Who says no?
ND (and everyone else) locks up a poopton of money, with most schools getting out of undervalued contracts. Hell, ND could even offer to take disproportionately more money and I still think most schools do this. ND locks up exposure through the entire northeast, their core constituency. You have a well rounded league, a championship game that would make bank, and I think bowls would fall over themselves to affiliate with the league. All sports teams would have reasonable travel. Regional rivalries, traditional rivalries, the whole shebang.
/daydreaming off.
Basic premise is this : IF ND were to ever join a conference... would they not prefer to do so on their own terms? In other words - if there is ONE team that could conceivably start their own conference and convince others to join, it's ND.
ND/Army/Navy/Pittsburgh/Boston College/Cinci/Louiville/Maryland/Virginia/Virginia Tech/Rutty/UConn
I don't pretend to know if those are all-sports schools... most are, yes? Anyway, just throwing that out there. Sub in and out as you think ND would see fit. Whatever teams you think fits ND's motives best. The above at least tries to preserve some traditional rivalries while leaving them room to schedule their others.
If ND approaches those teams and says "We are starting an all sports conference and taking it to the open market. You in?" Who says no?
ND (and everyone else) locks up a poopton of money, with most schools getting out of undervalued contracts. Hell, ND could even offer to take disproportionately more money and I still think most schools do this. ND locks up exposure through the entire northeast, their core constituency. You have a well rounded league, a championship game that would make bank, and I think bowls would fall over themselves to affiliate with the league. All sports teams would have reasonable travel. Regional rivalries, traditional rivalries, the whole shebang.
/daydreaming off.