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.
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BS, CBS would love to get ND to break its contract with NBC and the ACC.
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.
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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.
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With ND, USC, ect in the league, that dirty old name would need to go.
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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".
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.
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.
NFL or even european soccer replace them
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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.
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.
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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.
They might even get them.
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.
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.