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I thought it was a good statement. We are two days out from getting screwed and Pete is highlighting, as he did over the last 48 hours, that the process was unfair. He indicated that the ACC did burn a bridge with us and that we are going to have conversations with them down the road. I was not expecting him to light the world on fire; he is attempting to come across as calm, measured, likable, and reasonable. He's playing the long game and I appreciate that.

The guy typing though...

I noticed a lot of people complaining about the press corp not asking the "hard" questions. Just a reminder, those press folks are invited in their at the behest of the university and they can easily be uninvited in the future if their questions are embarrassing or force Pete to tap dance away from an uncomfortable topic. If someone says "Isn't it true that ESPN - with their allies in the ACC and SEC - royally screwed us?", Pete's answer would have been "That's not the sentiment here in the building. We are instead just disappointed in how the whole thing materialized and blah blah blah." Then that person would quietly be told they were not going to get welcomed back to the press room. Attacking peoples character, asserting conspiracies, and asking when ND is going to leave the ACC wouldn't be productive and it certainly wouldn't be welcomed or entertained by Pete.

I suspect, over the next few weeks, the ND legal team and the athletic department and the administrators are going to have some significant internal conversations about where ND goes from here, though. We (and the press) are not going to be privy to those conversations but they are most certainly going to happen.