FightingIrishLover7
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At least Pats West Virginia ass didn't slam Driskells mountain dew
ND's Talking Heads ... The good, bad & ugly
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calvegas04
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One less 10 available now
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I did find it funny when she joined Rakes Report last week and said reading has been good for her lol. Better late than never, anything to reverse the brain rot of social media
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Irish du Nord
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Hicks isn't horrible, but if I can't have Tirico on play-by-play, I want Paul Burmeister.
If he could only get one.🤣
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2 things from the Athletic:
- Interview with the ACC commissioner. He is acting like all is well with ND and the ACC. Water under the bridge
- Today, they did an early 2026 prediction article. We got the second most votes to win it all. Also a section for predictions. In there Sampson said "Notre Dame formally notifies the ACC of its intention to withdraw from the league and enters into a scheduling partnership with the Big Ten/SEC to fill out its missing football scheduling inventory. The rest of the Irish sports shift to the Big East."
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Wonder if that is based on any actual sources or just something that would make sense to Pete but isn't actually plausible.
edit: this bit right above Pete's in the article gives it a little more gravitas.
This is from Scott Dochterman, a B1G writer for The Athletic.
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stlnd01
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Yeah, Dochterman covers Iowa and the Big Ten for them and has for a long time. I would presume he has pretty good sources around the conference.
A six-game package with the Big Ten would be so much preferable to our deal with the ACC.
Especially if we keep the 10-year deal with Clemson (which is separate from the ACC deal) and the series with Stanford. That's eight P4 games.
Then you schedule one SEC team a year (or BYU if you can't). Maybe get a frequent rotation with ACC schools like BC, Syracuse and Pitt where'd sell a lot of tickets for them and you're at 10 P4s, plus Navy and one G5 tuneup.
Scheduling problems, solved.
A six-game package with the Big Ten would be so much preferable to our deal with the ACC.
Especially if we keep the 10-year deal with Clemson (which is separate from the ACC deal) and the series with Stanford. That's eight P4 games.
Then you schedule one SEC team a year (or BYU if you can't). Maybe get a frequent rotation with ACC schools like BC, Syracuse and Pitt where'd sell a lot of tickets for them and you're at 10 P4s, plus Navy and one G5 tuneup.
Scheduling problems, solved.
greyhammer90
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Bevaqua is going to earn all my good graces if he can solve the scheduling problem. It's the football program's missing infinity stone from my perspective.
notredomer23
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I’m neutral on the conference debate- what’s the benefit of playing 6 Big 10 teams rather than just joining?
This where I’m at too. Not really sure how you can claim independence if you’re contractually obligated to play 5 ACC (or Big 10 in this scenario) teams. And I don’t think that includes Stanford or the new Clemson deal.
Notre Dame is basically a full ACC member that isn’t getting conference money or conference CFP benefits.
Yep, just a little Reckless Speculation
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What would those six games with the Big 10 be? My hope would be something like:
Southern Cal
Michigan
Michigan St.
Purdue/Northwestern
Rotating game
Rotating game
Southern Cal
Michigan
Michigan St.
Purdue/Northwestern
Rotating game
Rotating game
Dale
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Probably more like:
Southern Cal
Purdue or MSU
Rotating or Purdue or MSU
Rotating
Rotating
Rotating
Big Ten currently has protected games for some opponents. Anywhere from 1 - 3 games IIRC. I don’t see them letting us choose 4 games, and even 3 would be a question.
stlnd01
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That'd be great but it would probably be hard to get more than one permanent opponent, which should be USC. Hopefully we could get Michigan and Sparty on some sort of more frequent rotation, at least.
But part of the fun of playing more Big Ten would be games against teams like Penn State, Iowa, Nebraska - places where people care about college football a lot more than most ACC schools - and it's a big conference, so you don't want to spread those too thin.
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This would be good.
If it is just USC + 5 random B10 teams, I don't see how it is better than the ACC agreement.
Just like how the ACC agreement would be fine if every year was:
BC
Pitt
Miami
Stanford
Clemson/Florida State
Rotating game
The most important part is locking in the matchups against rivals and minimizing the number of games each year against random/ uninteresting/bad teams (NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest, Duke, Minnesota, Rutgers, Maryland, Illinois, etc.)
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Since TV networks are the real decision makers in the sport, you would have to think NBC would be pushing for this as well. Their Saturday night games are often terrible. Adding ND as a potential night time visiting opponent for teams like Minnesota would probably juice their numbers.
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NBC would probably like it too
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By taking 100% of the CFP chedda, baby!
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Every other year at Iowa too!
Can’t even use that as a reason anymore! Miami just did the same thing.
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Well, you got me good there.
But that's because the ACC is going to collapse anyways. Don't ever see an Ohio State or Michigan, or Alabama/Georgia getting the same deal from B1G/SEC
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We’re going to find out how beneficial it is when we leave. And any time the ACC does something stupid we can just be like nah.
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Correct. People forget 2020 but it was pretty darn nice to not be beholden to the B1G that year as well. Also take a look at USC and Michigan being publicly pressured to enter into a private equity deal they don't want to anything to do with.
Flexibility is worth a lot when shit hits the fan. ND always has a "join conference in case of emergency" button they can press, but once they do they lose a lot of that flexibility.
