re: ADs threaten to "freeze out" ND on future schedules due to playoff favoritism

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If only it were truly equal and certain teams didn't get blatant favoritism in several ways, but sure Bama is an example of a giant willing to sacrifice fully for fairness to the peons.

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Whatever gripes y'all might have about the REC putting in work are pretty minor in comparison to how the big dogs treat the smaller ones in most conferences.

1) Wolken overall is not very credible when it comes to ND, if you know some of his background. Obviously, he probably talked to some ADs that probably will choose to avoid ND. But there are over 130 in FBS and you only need to schedule 12 games. The article is click-baity in general.

2) All the conferences agreed to the MOU a year ago. It is being treated as if this: a) was not previously unanimously agreed upon; and b) is a direct response to Sunday. Neither of those are true.

3) Relatedly, the MOU is now irrelevant. The committee moved Bama ahead of ND after beating 5-7 Auburn by 7, and didn’t move Bama down after losing by 21 to UGA. Had UVA beaten Duke, the committee likely would’ve kept ND in (probably at 9, with Bama at 10) but the ACC needed a team so Miami moved ahead. Point being: The committee will manipulate things as necessary, and if ND is #11 or 12, the committee will just move ND to #13 to get #10 in, if needed. (I think when Bevacqua agreed to it, he didn’t see something like that happening. Now it’s obvious that would happen, so he should back out of the MOU, in my opinion.)

4) In general, the conferences don’t want ND to join a conference unless it’s theirs. This is why, at a conference level, you won’t see a conference prohibit teams from scheduling ND. Again, a minority of athletic directors might choose not to.

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If they lead the charge to get other teams to break out of conference chokeholds and out from under a useless NCAA, then they may be on to something - formation of a super league of 32 teams and run it similar to the NFL in terms of divisions, a front office, and an overall commissioner.

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They’ll do this and then choose not to be a part of it?

I’ve said this a million times before and I’ll say it again: Notre Dame is the definition of an elitist school with an elitist fanbase. They are, in every way, as bad if not worst than Harvard when it comes to classism/elitism. All you have to do is look at the average family income statistics of students that attend ND.

My personal tin-foil hat theory for why they’ve been revered for so long by the big media conglomerates is because they’ve always had a huge alumni presence in those companies. For decades, their alumni managed to take up executive positions at companies like ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. As a result of being in higher-up positions, they wanted these companies to make journalistic pieces about “how great Notre Dame is”.

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I’ve said this a million times before and I’ll say it again: Notre Dame is the definition of an elitist school with an elitist fanbase. They are, in every way, as bad if not worst than Harvard when it comes to classism/elitism.

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From Notre Dame:

The University of Notre Dame's student aid philosophy centers on providing a Catholic, values-based education to all deserving students, meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need for undergraduates through grants and scholarships (not loans) via its Pathways to Notre Dame program, ensuring affordability regardless of background, and[ maintaining a need-blind policy for all applicants, including internationals, to focus on merit and potential, not money.

On Notre Dame's webpage they note that 70% of undergraduates receive some form of financial aid with $64,200 being the median need-based scholarship awarded to incoming first-year students. In other words, if you can get admitted you will be able to afford Notre Dame.

Notre Dame is able to do this because it has a very high endowment of $16.62 billion and a total Undergraduate enrollment of only 8,800 students. Admission to Notre Dame is Highly Selective and applicants require high test scores, high achievement in High School and involvement in extra-curricular activities are important (student government, involvement in sports, volunteer activities, etc.).

If that makes Notre Dame "Elitist", well so be it.........

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There aren’t 70 power teams

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There are 67. You add the 2 P12 teams and ND. 70.

Should already be a Harvard Business School case study in the works on the ineptitude of their PR efforts here. That you have two great academic schools like MI and ND simultaneously committing PR seppuku is…something.

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We need to go to Josh Pate's 7 Power conferences with 10 teams each.

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What about 6 power conferences, 12 teams each, regionally oriented

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If only it were truly equal and certain teams didn't get blatant favoritism in several ways, but sure Bama is an example of a giant willing to sacrifice fully for fairness to the peons.

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I had to laugh at that post as well.

Bama had bridge scheduling rigged for them by a Bama alum for nearly 5 years. From 2012 on up, games were altered, sometimes months before the season, to give Bama the advantage of a weaker conference schedule.

You had a Bama alum in charge of SEC officiating.

Bama got, what, four mulligans during Saban's tenure? No other SEC program would be considered for one, much less two. LOLOL. They even got mulligans when there were only two teams selected for the final game.

For years Bama was the only SEC school that could get away with paying players. Once that field leveled off, their coach retired.

The list goes on and on and on and on.