If we join the BIG, we will have a schedule much like ND had as an independent when I went to school there in the 1960's. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
BIG 10 looking to add 4 schools
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In a 20 team conference, each team will play less than half the conference members in a season. Some competitors will be good, others not so much. It is hard to see why TV ratings should go out the roof. TV networks bidding on marquee non-conference matchups could have been tailored to provide more revenue to the best teams willing to play the best teams.
ND will stay independent until the landscape turns into a two conference look,
AFC vs NFC style with divisions. Just like the NFL
I think when it's all said and done there will be 4 conference
Nah. There will be plenty of programs that will schedule us ever year.
Guaranteed Sold out stadiums, national tv exposure
Scheduling games will be easy
Sure we can schedule Vandy, Indiana and Rutgers. Forget Michigan, USC and others. You are such an idiot.
I've seen this prediction in a few different places. Wouldn't this type of change go against the most powerful force driving all of this, which is money? The current expansions have generally provided more money for the expanding conferences, or at least kept them even on a per-school basis. The schools they have left to add would dilute the money base, though. My guess is that the B1G and SEC are both actually hoping that the current ACC & Big 12 stay intact so that they can enjoy their $$$ advantages as long as possible. They might even be willing to adjust their OOC scheduling philosophies to help preserve the status quo in the ACC & Big 12.
That's your opinion. Based nothing on facts. We'll have plenty of options to make a competitive schedule. You're a little baby. Stop crying and man up
Lol, swing and a miss as usual
Seems to be that ND had/has some significant upsides in terms of $$ if they join a conference.
And you have been complaining (under all your handles) about ND needing to spend more money on the football program
You have all sides covered
That was ND’s continued commitment to wokeness, not because it couldn’t find any better teams
Good point
The ole days of MSU, Purdue, Iowa, Wisky, NW…? Some Illinois?
then Mich in the 70’s?
I said enough $ dummy. Everyone has a price. I don’t think they’ll join a conference just like I do not think they’ll be given $100 billion.
We don’t need more $ to spend on the program. We already have more than anyone else.
It was because of Texas when they launched their Longhorn network. That rubbed the rest of the conference members the wrong way as it gave them additional revenue signing their own media rights deal outside of the conference.
@topdecktiger We were talking about Nebraska and Mizzou. UTexas was destabilizing the Big12 by looking around for greener pastures and plotting to take some but not all the Big12 schools to the PAC10. Nebraska and others would have been crazy not to flee a conference that was about to sink.
Only after ESPN offered UT the LHN did Texas claim that it would 'save' the Big12. I don't know why any school would turn down a promotion out of that environment.
True, the schools that left the Big12 in 2011 did not find football success but they weren't really having any at that point either. Nebraska et al seem to peak at winning a division and losing the conf championship game.
I know that. Nebraska and Colorado left because Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma St and A&M were considering leaving the Big 12 for the Pac 12. Plus, Missouri was considering the Big Ten.
Nebraska and Colorado didn’t want to get left behind, so they left before that happened.
Nebraska would have struggled in any conference. They wouldn't have defeated Oklahoma in the past decade.
I travel all around the different conferences fan bases and there's a lot of smoke that all of the conferences are - especially the SEC and Big Ten - loading up their members with strictly conference games in the next couple of years. Not sure what the Big 12 plans are but all of this makes sense with the CF conferences getting bigger and bigger.
The point is, sure ND will find other schools to schedule as an independent but what will the quality of those schools be ?
Let's just pretend that happens and for some reason the Big2 don't want popular games. Would our November schedule really be worse than backfill with ACC or Big East teams as was true since the 90s? It is not believable that the big conferences would take schools like Pitt, Syracuse, and Baylor and then not allow them to schedule Marquee games.
IMO, two bad hires. Bo Pelini was embarrassing the school with his obnoxious behavior; so they went in the opposite direction by hiring Mike Riley. Nice guy, but middling coach. Then they hired the prodigal son Scott Frost. Riley was on okay coach. Frost didn't know what the hell he was doing. He thought acting tough was 99% of the job.
Any program would have struggled with those two guys at the helm.
I agree the Irish landed Teddy Rezac from Omaha and in very interested in a Linebacker. I believe Jones is his name but Rhule could change that. He has history of rebuilding
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