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CFB has never been in this situation. Nobody knows what's sustainable.
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
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.
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?
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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.
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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 ?
compete.
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.
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