(08-13-2020 06:15 PM)TerryD Wrote:  The Co-Chairmen of the Advisory Committee are the current President of Notre Dame (Father John Jenkins) and the former Professor/Dean/Provost of Notre Dame (now Wake Forest President), Nathan Hatch.

Nathan Hatch worked at ND from 1975 until he became President of Wake Forest in 2005. His three kids all graduated from ND.

I posted this on the ACC board, asking where all the conspiracy theorists were with this.

I wonder if Jack Swarbrick caps off his career as the next ACC Commissioner?


P.S. There are lots of other significant ND ties regarding the upper levels of the ACC leadership.

Duke AD Kevin White was the AD at Notre Dame before Swarbrick.

North Carolina AD Bubba Cunningham was an Associate AD at ND for years. He worked at ND from 1988 until 2002.

Boo Corrigan, the AD at NC State, graduated from ND in 1990 and was an Associate AD there from 2004 until 2008.


(I think that about covers Tobacco Road.....Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke and NC State....yep.)

And you still think it won't happen

(08-13-2020 07:07 PM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 04:55 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:46 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  The #1 mission of the new ACC AD will be to spearhead the charge to remove March Madness from the NCAA and run it as a P5+Some (feel free to speculate below on who the "some" is) like football is. That will be a huge financial lift to the ACC which stands to gain the most from that change. That change would also send some entire conferences of NCAAT welfare queens down a division (feel free to speculate below on who those conferences are).

That's one reason why it won't happen. The other "Ps" have no desire to see the ACC boosted like that.

Plus, the public likes March Madness as a big free-for-all with all the little welfare conferences involved. That's what makes it magical to the casual viewer, and it is the casual viewer that makes it a billion-dollar affair, not the hard-core hoops fan.

I disagree with you quo. The Big XII would stand to profit from this, so I can see them voting for it also. And seeing how the Big Ten is much more into winter sports, I can see the Big Ten going for this too. The only real P5 opposition that I can see would be the SEC.

People underestimate how many NCAAT units the SEC earns. Trust me, the SEC would make more money, too. Every P5 except maybe the Pac-12 would benefit.