The Big East, here we (should) come
Always a better fit anyway. No football for other members to whine about like the ACC shits do. Fuck the ACC bowl connection - it’s no longer relevant.
The Big East was a better fit for all other sports. And it is not a farcical conference that includes remnants of the PAC 10.
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Why not Big 10? Seems they'd be able to help football too. With an ACC like agreement
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Because they are fucking satan
Also, they would insist on football too.
Ok, but if the revenue is similar why not football?
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Boring rivalries, full scope of games to limit recruiting reach
We would become a slightly better Northwestern.
Ask Nebraska how they are doing.
I like this idea. Maybe enter in to an agreement with the Big10, 12, and SEC to play two teams from
each conference a year
Pie in the sky. Those conferences have no desire to make that agreement...
...unless maybe to dump their also-rans on you...
Historically, and for a lot of other reasons, I would love a Big East affiliation.
The posts here are ignoring the reality of what is going on in football IF ND wants to compete for championships.
If they don't...then BIG East and a football schedule consisting almost entirely of marshmallows is certainly an option.
Let's join a group of 6 conference. Get that bid every year.
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Ya, they just collectively stabbed ND in the back.
I'm sure they'll be more than happy to allow ND to remain independent.
Big12 probably not happy with BYU dropping for losing and Bama not
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You think we could learn from recent history... (2 days ago.)
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The Big East is the most logical conference to join.
I disagree with the worries about scheduling.
Notre Dame is always a draw. Plenty of of teams across the nation to fill the dance card.
Agreed. And NBC will be there.
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Not agreeing with the piece linked here...but here's a window into what a USC thinks...
It's not about being able to merely fill out the dance card. It's about being able to produce a meaningful Football schedule year in and year out that will allow an opportunity into (or another chance to get screwed out of) the playoffs.
ND needs at least 3 real top programs on the card...and one in November ideally...
The conference powerhouses will not want to accommodate that.
Sure, all the weak sisters will line up for the draw and payout of an ND game...
Link: Don’t kill college football’s best tradition. Compromise to keep USC vs. Notre Dame (LA Times)
Spot on…we are truly between a rock and a hard place
What just occurred was always our worst fear…losing 2 games as an independent with no conference affiliation. It’s only going to get worse.
Football scheduling is a real problem...and it's gonna get worse now I believe.
The ACC deal allowed us to fill up half the schedule with at least reasonable, if sometimes lackluster, opponents.
Trying to fill all 12 spots with a "strong enough" schedule with big games slotted throughout will not be possible over time.
What was just done...was done with purpose. The same message will be delivered through future scheduling as well.
ND's football independence needs to be squashed...
I doubt that. ND brings lots of cash.
I doubt ND will have a hard time finding 12 teams that want the Irish to come to their stadium every other year. Many will still want a marquee out-of-conference game,
Some conferences might try to block it. We will see.
This shit ought to just harden ND's determination to stay out of the conference cesspools.
Have you seen the 2026 schedule.
Not a lot of meat on that bone.
Compare it to any Big 10 team
Most play two of the big hitters, and no one of consequence out of conference.
And the Big 12 is worse. Just a farce.
I like the Big East and agree with maintaining independence in football...but I don't see it as...
truly viable from a football perspective. (See post above.)
I don't have a good answer given what the ACC has done...
(Hell, they were pissed at us winning the conference in 2020.)
if teams refuse to schedule ND that would be collusion, no?
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Ron Powlus is our only hope
He's in charge of creating ND's future schedules.
Crap job this year if he was in charge of the Miami and Texas A&M dates.
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The problem is most conference teams don't want to schedule us once they start conference play
That only leaves the early season games to schedule those teams.
This is the looming mid- to long-term problem. We're playing chicken to some extent.
Trying to see whether the traditional conference structure breaks first or ND is forced to join a conference.
Unfortunately, I don't think the timing lines up. That said, if I were ND, I would join a placeholder conference before joining the Big10 or SEC. Those will eventually get blown up, and seeing how the various joiners are treated over the years in the BIG and SEC, you are basically signing up for at least a decade of second class citizenship.
F That.
🖕them
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Football.....on the basketball court.
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