Source on Notre Dame: "It's really unsustainable to be an independent now."
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Replies to: Source on Notre Dame: "It's really unsustainable to be an independent now."
Re: Source on ND: "Independence is the only way to stay competitive."
CFB has never been in this situation. Nobody knows what's sustainable.
I sense ND will be exiting college football in 5-10 years.
The actions necessary to be competitive are diverging from the mission of the University. Swarbrick said as much a few months back—it’s just happening faster than he predicted. (See link)
Link: https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2022/04/23/notre-dame-jack-swarbrick-division-1-change
What was Knute's mission when he took us touring the country?
We delude oursleves to disregard our roots.
Imagine ND if we'd never become the Fighting Irish.
Name another significant Catholic Unuversity other than the Heathan Hoyas.
I think Swarbrick is right. Also interesting to think public schools could implement his approach
And effectively operate either directly or through a licensing scheme a purely for-profit enterprise that has no connection to the university.
Do we really need a second pro football league?
Second? This would be the fourth; NFL, USFL, XFL
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Hallelujah!
ND won't leave college football, but, hopefully, it will leave the NCAA. I've said it for many years: ND, Stanford, BC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Duke (football), the Service Academies, Rice, and possibly BYU should form a conference of schools that still want to have athletes who are actual students. The way it's looking now, it should be its own league.
so a club sport?
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No. Scholarship sport.
I would love someone to provide a moral justification for ND becoming an outright football factory, divorced from the University in every other way. To satisfy the sports bros ?
just because others do it doesn’t mean ND has to replicate. ND can maintain its mission and still
compete.
I'll take Jack's analysis at this point. The choice will have to be made.
His reasoning seems sound. And you'd have to be an idiot to think the NIL scheme is sustainable. Actually, you would have had to have been an idiot or a social justice warrior (but then I repeat myself) to think it was sustainable before it was launched.
5 on 5,
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