It looks like the B10 has invited ND.
Oregon and Washington were told to wait until ND decided. I'd imagine the B10 would agree to pay a portion of the fee that will be levied on ND for leaving the ACC before 2036.
Replies to: It looks like the B10 has invited ND.
BS, where's your info come from? Link?
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Where was Dodd and his "sources" the day before yesterday?
BS, CBS would love to get ND to break its contract with NBC and the ACC.
ND doesn't have to break its contract with NBC to join the Big Ten
Contract only runs through 2025. While the contract is in force, ND home games shown on NBC regardless of who they play. That is a deal that Big Ten would readily agree to.
ACC is a different deal but there are others prepping to leave, just looking for an excuse.
Meh. Wait it out then pit the Big10 super conference against the SEC conference to have our baby
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I think we probably should join the Big 10
I never really was a fan of joining a conference. But, I think we will have to, ore get left out. The Big 10 will be the premier conference for TV etc with the new additions etc. I think it's time. Hopefully our admin will not screw this up.
If we can limit it to 5 games a year, I'm ok with it.
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One demand should be the dropping of the BIG 10 name.
With ND, USC, ect in the league, that dirty old name would need to go.
And no Catholic players on any other conference team can play against ND.
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Interesting thought..
The name of the conference just may change....but I am almost certain that act is pretty much buried at the bottom of the list of "things to do".
Re: It looks like the B10 has invited ND.
If ND is going to join a conference, and if they have been formally offered membership in the Big Ten, I think this is the opportunity they need to take. They could join the ACC, but in my opinion, that conference is on shaky ground. If they prefer joining the ACC, they need to have plenty of opt-outs available to them because I believe the next domino to fall is the SEC raiding the ACC for Miami, Florida St, Clemson and possibly Georgia Tech.
Right...why join the ACC when it will be carved up in the next 12 months.
I personally think ND needs to act now. Get in front of this. The times they are a changin.
Maybe the ND and Clemson AD's need to have a conference call.
as you noted below, the ? is do super leagues have a short life and something more like the
NFL or even european soccer replace them
All I know is ND will not leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.
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You don’t know that
ND is obviously comfortable leaving lots of dough on the table, we’ve done it for years.
If we abandon our 100+ years of independence, it won’t be because of money. That’s the game everyone is playing. Let everyone else prostitute themselves, like USC, who obviously thinks nothing of forcing their athletes to fly across the country in order to compete. The money grab is beneath us and we treasure our independence too much to cheapen it in this way.
Money is not an issue. We recently raised $440M with ease for Campus Crossroads.
Very true.
ND's ability to fundraise blows away most schools. That being said, how much of that pie goes towards athletics?
I think it's going to come down to future scheduling, access to a playoff, and having a suitable home for Olympic sports.
I think ND will stand pat for now and plan for multiple future contingencies. It will probably be some some poor shit hole school like FSU that will make a move that eventually leads to ND having to make a choice.
We fly our teams all over the country now
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Geography is hard
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Re: All I know is ND will not leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.
Only because there is no way to duplicate it through an independent status. When it is was 30,40, 50 million per year, maybe that could get close enough. But you are absolutely right, approaching 9-figure dollar amounts just for TV is not something they can duplicate in my opinion. And even if the ACC were to stay completely intact as it is now and ND joining, I don't think the ACC can come close to that figure.
Maybe they should ask for additional consessions nobody else gets
They might even get them.
I am sure many will disagree with that...
and they aren't necessarily wrong. But the power brokers in college football have played along with allowing ND a seat at the table without joining a conference for quite some time now. While having ND in the mix would be quite lucrative to the entity that lands them, college football will easily survive without ND in the 21st century and beyond. If USC and UCLA can chuck a century of tradition to join the Big Ten, ND can do the same.
Yes, but there were competing conferences, and ND had the draw of a conference itself.
That will not be the case if there are only two conferences of, say, 20-25 teams each, and ND is on the outside looking in. ND won't have a comparable draw as an entire conference.