you primarily face 1 style of offense all season vs. 2 types of option, smash mouth, spread and air-raid (or a version of it). That's really hard to try to defend 5 different styles of offense alternating week in and out throughout the season.
Not to mention, the 7 or 8 other teams in a conference are much weaker than what we play.
Granted in a regular season we'd also add back some of the games we had to give up but it's still way easier in a conference.
Most of the programs are somewhat down right now, but historically are much stronger.
FSU, VT, ect.
And playing those teams every year would be incredibly boring. As for varied offenses, most teams are more the same then you think.
Fuck the ACC.
medicore's and a bunch of duds, annually. The SEC fits this as well.
The ACC in my opinion for the last decade really has only had 1-2 powers annually and mostly duds.
We created the Miami monster and when we dropped them the program fell off. Both they and FSU are sleeping giants. North Carolina is also an incredibly attractive school. The SEC will begin losing recruits to the ACC as these programs improve. It's addition by subtraction.
Sure, ND played them when they were just starting to get going, but Miami won in 2001, long after they stopped playing ND.
Miami has won 3 national titles since ND last won it.
Miami was previously a small poor local school with no conference, no tradition and nearly no football team altogether... and in the 70's actually considered dropping the sport because of funding and lack of overall interest. Then Schnellenberger led them to the 1983 national championship as an independent with a very weak schedule. Subsequently, the arrival of coach Jimmy Johnson (who was fleeing to Miami from Stillwater, Oklahoma), and his 58-7 thrashing of a once-proud Notre Dame in 1985, changed both programs. Johnson was able to corner a talent-rich region of South Florida, recruited young men from poor neighborhoods... because he had a TV national rival. Without ND Miami would have been practically invisible and its National Championship as great an anomaly as that of BYU in 1984.
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like so many leftists want, it will take us down with it.
It's all penis envy. They want to dress up like giant phalluses and get intot the end zone also.
...don't worry, the leftists are just blowing smoke. #WWG1WGA
We got the nation covered.
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NBC keeps us on the television screen even when we have a down year. If Notre Dame could join the ACC but continue to negotiate its own television deals - while obviously sharing the revenue. - and play USC every year, then I don’t see any drawbacks.
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It wouldn't.
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ND could play on Friday nights!
became official at some point. I think it's a chip ND can use to bargain for things they really want but also get access to easier ways to a championship through the conference system that basically is a requirement now.
so I say remain in ACC and schedule USC every year and other reasonable to good opponents once a year also. And if only 8 conference games required schedule another solid opponent. Better shot at title. And the ACC is the one we saved football but they allowed us to.
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