with the addition of Pitt and Syracuse, Notre Dame typically plays at least two ACC teams anyways each season. Duke, UNC, Boston College, Wake Forest, Ga Tech has been on their schedule in the last few years.
I am an ACC fan, and do not like Notre Dame, I think it is a coup for for the ACC. Having not seen the details, I imagine that Notre Dame away games will be broadcast by NBC. Giving NBC as many as 10 or 11 ND games a season to broadcast.
I also think it will be incentive for Clemson, FSU and Va Tech to stay in the ACC. And if the ACC has Notre Dame, other conferences will not have ND.
Pitt, Syracuse, and ND. 15 teams for the ACC. 5 team divisions in B-Ball? Home and Home within your division? one game per year outside your division? Thats 18 conference games.
How are DUKE/UNC going to play two conference games per year? No way they put those two teams in the same conference. It would be unfair to the other three teams in that conference.
Yeah, I don’t see how that would work either. The home team always has broadcast rights, don’t they?
You’d be surprised. I know a few people that have worked for ND Development over the years, and the #1 factor in fundraising success has always been the success of the football team. Donations drastically dropped when they fired Ty Willingham. Cutting Navy off the schedule would likely elicit a similar reaction from the alumni.
Why would they join the ACC after snubbing their nose at the Big 10 for twenty years? Is the ACC membership really that much more lucrative? I wouldn’t think so; and the B10 seems like a better fit geographically too.
Because the Big 10 has always added the stipulation that they join as a football school as well.
There’s no advantage to be gained by joining a bunch of geographically similar schools anymore. This gives them an extremely strong footing into the south (Florida, especially) for recruiting, which they haven’t really enjoyed for a while.
I still think this is one step toward ND joining the ACC in football. They could keep USC, Navy and rotate between Mich & Purdue. Don’t they skip Michigan every once in a while as it stands? I can’t remember.
They’re going to need to wait 13 year to pick apart the Big 12 due to the grant of rights. The 4 other big conferences would need to all actively collude together and get most of the Big 12 members to want to call it quits to break it up. Texas and Oklahoma are happy with the current set up and what’s the point of grabbing the others to satisfy a weird need for symmetry?
To me, the Notre Dame move is a sign of the end of realignment not a new flash point, It’ll be five conference era for at least the next decade and a half, and its a good thing.
The biggest change in the whole thing was setting the ACC exit fee to $50 million. The exit fee will also apply to Notre Dame. Plus, the tv contract will be renegotiated and will be right in the neighborhood of the Big XII. The ND addition is going to give the ACC stability for quite some time; for that reason alone it was a genius move.
I don’t disagree with that. Cutting Michigan St., Purdue and Stanford isn’t too hard of a choice (except Stanford, since guaranteeing one game a year in California is pretty important), especially if the money is there. ND has been slowly adding ACC teams to the football schedule recently, which makes me wonder how long this move has actually been in the works. (Michigan has been steady on the schedule for about 15 years - there was a long black out period there, mostly due to Michigan not liking it when ND started winning.)
Michigan/ND have a thing where they schedule 10-12 years of games, then take 2 off, and start over again. I’m pretty sure we are approaching an off cycle in '18, and I Don’t think they have scheduled after the break yet. But there is an assumption by everybody they will.
What does tradition have to do with it? I though you were upset because it was unfair, and that a similar decision could allow them to lose a football team because it would make them more money. In other words, you see this as detrimental to the sport, even if it is beneficial to the ACC and ND.
Where did you find that? The $9mil figure was for the previous NBC contract that expired in 2010. The terms of the current contract have never been exactly reported.
Wow, who saw this coming? Notre Dame is calling off the Michigan game after 2014. I guess turnabout is fair play, and this paves the road to getting ready for full membership into the ACC (or at least I guess, an easier schedule as they foresee Brian Kelly really putting this team in a position to compete for a national championship), but it’s disappointing. They’re certainly on their way to telling the rest of the Big 10 to go fuck themselves.
I had heard rumblings that UM would be the most likely to go among the current Big 10 “rivals.” I would have rather dropped Purdue.
I don’t know if it means full ACC membership or actually a way to keep some independence. Five ACC games plus traditional rivals UM, MSU, PU, Navy, Stanford and USC only left room for 1 “free” game. ND has been on a barnstorming kick lately where they play a game at a nuetral site every year. Keeping all the traditional rivals would have meant the exact same home games every other year if they kept the barnstorming game.
The Columbus sports radio talking heads made for good entertainment yesterday regarding this development. They demand that Jim Delaney force MSU and Purdue to cancel ND immediately. Nobody pushes around the Big 10 like that!! Nevermind that ND means big $ and they would never be able to schedule comparitively big opponents with that little notice. There’s also talk that UM may cancel the last game in the new plan, which would be at ND in 2014.
