(07-12-2018 06:38 AM)TerryD Wrote: (07-11-2018 07:28 PM)Statefan Wrote: Your legal status with the ACC is irrelevant. As evidenced by you entry into the ACC, even ND recognizes deals in it's own interest.
Irrelevant? Lol. ND best interests are now enshrined in that legal status.
ND has consistently made moves since 1991 to preserve football independence (NBC deal, Big East deal, ACC deal).
Every one of these moves was made to maintain that indy position. If ND was primarily interested in the most TV money, like you think, it would already be in the Big Ten.
ND has always declared that it strongly believes that football independence is in its own best interests.
Your arguments to the contrary are irrelevant to that position.
You claimed that if the Texas associated with the ACC in football, brining along TCU, that ND would not be inclined to add a 6th ACC game in order to also benefit from the constant exposure in Texas:
You said:
I am not so sure that ND will give the ACC that suggested sixth game.
I said:
Of course you will because the 6th game will be you and Texas.
I doubt you would turn down the following:
6 ACC games with TCU, Tulane, CU, Miami, FSU, UNC, WF, Duke, BC, Pitt, Syracuse, Louisville, UVa, VT, NCSU and GT
1 Game with Texas
1 Game with Navy
1 Game with USC
I Game with Stanford
2 Games with scrubs or the B10, or SEC, etc.
That puts Notre Dame playing a school form Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, NC, and DC every year, every other year you will play Miami or FSU, you will be playing Pitt, Syracuse, and BC every third year.
In all ND gets Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, DC, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Raleigh, New York and New Orleans. If that's not the national schedule, what is?
You said:
It gives more to the ACC and chips away at independence. It takes one more game from ND's control in scheduling.
For those reasons, I think that you would find great resistance from ND to this idea.
That claim is not supported by ND's past actions. Like any other creature that has a set of self interests, ND makes decisions based on it's self interests. It's not the money, it's the bi-annual appearance in Catholic rich Texas.
If ND could join a conference that consisted of Pitt, Navy, Texas, USC, Stanford, NW, Purdue, and Miami - you would. However such a conference does not exist, so you angle for the next best thing.