Notre Dame to the B1G Conference?

[Hautian Domer]

The Big Ten should've went after some southern schools.
It would've made them a true "national" conference.

SEC is still lumped up in the south east.
I think I'd rather join the Big Ten to keep our traditional rivalries alive, but would be more than fine if forced to join the SEC.

If we were to join the SEC I hope the administration realizes what kind of a commitment that would take to win.

I think they will. Excluding Notre Dame, I think the "prize" school for the Big Ten and SEC is UNC. North Carolins is a new state or territory for both conferences, a great academic school, a top 3 basketball program, a respectable football school, a respectable baseball school, a top lacrosse school, a top women's soccer school, and many, many more. They offer so much. I can also see the Big Ten looking at Georgia Tech, Virginia, Florida State, and Miami. Adding 2-4 teams may round out its expansion.

 

[stlnd01]

I think they will. Excluding Notre Dame, I think the "prize" school for the Big Ten and SEC is UNC. North Carolins is a new state or territory for both conferences, a great academic school, a top 3 basketball program, a respectable football school, a respectable baseball school, a top lacrosse school, a top women's soccer school, and many, many more. They offer so much. I can also see the Big Ten looking at Georgia Tech, Virginia, Florida State, and Miami. Adding 2-4 teams may round out its expansion.

If Notre Dame wants to play a national schedule, they will want to be in a national conference. And it’s a lot easier for the B1G to become a national conference by adding UNC and maybe a Florida school than for the SEC to add schools basically everywhere but the Southeast.

 

[HouseofPain]

I lean Big 10 but would absolutely get down with the SEC too. SEC states and audiences are growing more than any other regions too. Matchups would be a blast. Both better than independence in 2024.

Man you clearly dont embrace the virtues of Notre Dame. All about football correct?

 

[Irishdawg]

Man you clearly dont embrace the virtues of Notre Dame. All about football correct?

Or you could look at it another way… the start of building conference rivalries and/or the prestige of playing for a conference championship.

 

[Lberry]

Man you clearly dont embrace the virtues of Notre Dame. All about football correct?

I don't see a University-altering difference in playing Michigan state vs South Carolina.

So I don't have a response to your accusation.

 

[drayer54]

What’s the worst that happens? They put our games on Peacock 🦚?

 

[notredomer23]

FSU filed suit in February.

 

[NDWarrior]

Florida State & Clemson To Join Big Ten In 2025

 

[Ricochet]

Florida State & Clemson To Join Big Ten In 2025

It was an April Fools joke.

 

[BobbyMac]

Florida State & Clemson To Join Big Ten In 2025

You better be on vacation in Hawaii.

 

[NDpendent]

I vote that the 7 people who are in "The Six" give @NDWarrior the Dingle treatment.
I heard there is some kind of pattern you all use.

 

[ulukinatme]

Give it time

 

[BobbyMac]

Why the P2 wants ND.

They deliver more viewers for Vandy, Northwestern, Purdue, Miss St, Illinois & Rutgers than any team in the country.

 

[jprue24]

 

[ColinKSU]

Why the P2 wants ND.

They deliver more viewers for Vandy, Northwestern, Purdue, Miss St, Illinois & Rutgers than any team in the country.

Imagine seeing that number like our friend Tom there, thinking it’s only because they are nationally televised but not stopping to consider *why* they’re nationally televised.

 

[forkbeard3777]

The Case for Notre Dame Football to join the SEC

 

[BobbyMac]

Imagine seeing that number like our friend Tom there, thinking it’s only because they are nationally televised but not stopping to consider *why* they’re nationally televised.

Or that Bama and Ohio State games aren't on "broadcast" networks most of the time and even if they are on ESPN... how many people who watch an ND game on NBC... don't have access to ESPN during football season?

Add to that, those viewer numbers aren't all on NBC obviously. Half of them are road games on other networks (non-broadcast ESPN and a Peacock game included)

People let their FIDS block out all logical thought processes forcing them into extended bouts of verbal diarrhea.

 

[BobbyMac]

The Case for Notre Dame Football to join the SEC

0.00% chance that happens. But ND will let ya'll think there's a chance just to get the most money out of the B1G when that day comes.

Might even take Vandy with us just to get into America's fastest growing football market... Nashville and TN.

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Thanks to Peacock, I think a higher proportion of ND’s road games are on national TV than their home games.

 

[Huntr]

The Case for Notre Dame Football to join the SEC

That would be fun as hell and would make for some haaaateful game threads. Too many trad rivals in the B1G to not go there now, tho.

 

[forkbeard3777]

0.00% chance that happens. But ND will let ya'll think there's a chance just to get the most money out of the B1G when that day comes.

Might even take Vandy with us just to get into America's fastest growing football market... Nashville and TN.

😂Even as a Vandy grad…

 

[forkbeard3777]

That would be fun as hell and would make for some haaaateful game threads. Too many trad rivals in the B1G to not go there now, tho.

Completely agree. The Big Ten makes the most sense should Notre Dame pursue a conference. I just wanted to share the article

 

[BobbyMac]

😂Even as a Vandy grad…

I was told by a P2 AD years ago that the B1G would eventually have teams in TX, FL, GA, NC, VA, AZ and if things continued to devolve with Vandy... TN.

Vandy does nothing for the SEC but cost the other programs a share of the take. They have UTK to control TN. The B1G keeps racking up $$$ with every new population center they acquire.

 

[forkbeard3777]

I was told by a P2 AD years ago that the B1G would eventually have teams in TX, FL, GA, NC, VA, AZ and if things continued to devolve with Vandy... TN.

Vandy does nothing for the SEC but cost the other programs a share of the take. They have UTK to control TN. The B1G keeps racking up $$$ with every new population center they acquire.

Possibly? They may be forced to go that route and have regional pods for non-football sports to survive. I still think we’ll eventually see a 50-70 team “football only” super conference / league.

 

[BobbyMac]

Possibly? They may be forced to go that route and have regional pods for non-football sports to survive. I still think we’ll eventually see a 50-70 team “football only” super conference / league.

The post-NCAA P2 is a given with the # of teams being the smallest amount that returns the highest per team pay out. The only problem will be balancing the power between the B1G and SEC. The SEC’s prospects of adding big money programs in found markets is much tougher than the B1G’s.

 

[forkbeard3777]

The post-NCAA P2 is a given with the # of teams being the smallest amount that returns the highest per team pay out. The only problem will be balancing the power between the B1G and SEC. The SEC’s prospects of adding big money programs in found markets is much tougher than the B1G’s.

Other than Notre Dame, who’s really left in terms of “big money programs?” I don’t think there’s too many left that are attractive, at all. North Carolina? FSU? Clemson? Virginia Tech or maybe Virginia (interestingly enough, all 5 are geographically situated in the southeast). That said, even a school like TCU is more attractive than the latter two, in my opinion.

Other than those few (some are highly debatable), everyone else is lagniappe.