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Notre Dame remains uninterested in joining Big 10
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:13 pm
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Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:14 pm to Stromile Swift
They should be forced to join a conference.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:15 pm to saderade
quote:
They should be forced to join a conference.
Who can do that? The NCAA has no balls whatsoever.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:16 pm to saderade
quote:-1
They should be forced to join a conference.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:18 pm to saderade
I don't care what they do as long as they continue to wallow in mediocrity.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:23 pm to Stromile Swift
quote:It has begun.
"Our strong preference is to remain the way we are," Swarbrick said, according to the report. "Independence is a big part of the tradition of the program and our identity. We'd sure like to try to maintain (independence)."
Put me on record as saying that Notre Dame will join the Big Ten.
This post was edited on 12/17/09 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:30 pm to Stromile Swift
quote:
Swarbrick acknowledged that the major football conferences make even more money from their own media contracts than the $9 million Notre Dame is paid annually by NBC for the football rights. In the Big Ten, TV and radio rights fees generate $20 million a year for the schools.
I did not know that
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:30 pm to xiv
Why should one team be allowed to collect post season money and not have to share it with a conference like every other BCS school? I know the NCAA has no balls to do anything to the mighty Notre Dame but it is a bunch of shite.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:35 pm to saderade
quote:Any school can do what Notre Dame does.
Why should one team be allowed to collect post season money and not have to share it with a conference like every other BCS school?
If LSU wants to drop out of the SEC and offer its services to a tv network, it may do so, and the network may accept or decline.
LSU, however, would rather be in the SEC and pool its resources with the 11 other schools. Notre Dame is the most attractive independent, and the only independent in whom a tv network would be interested.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:37 pm to saderade
The NCAA can't do it, but the BCS can by taking away all priveleges and lumping them in with the WAC and CUSA members.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:44 pm to Bubba Hotep
quote:This.
The NCAA can't do it, but the BCS can by taking away all priveleges and lumping them in with the WAC and CUSA members
Notre Dame is given special treatment by the BCS because it benefits the BCS for them to give special treatment to Notre Dame.
One thing many of us don't understand is that the BCS Championship game and its selection has nothing to do with conference affiliation, BCS-ness, Notre Dame, or anything. If you're #1 or #2, you're in the title game no matter who you are. The rest of the BCS games are bowls with historic tie-ins and contracts with conferences. The SEC champion should always have access to the Sugar Bowl because it built the Sugar Bowl (and Pac-10/Big Ten, the Rose, etc).
The "special treatment" Notre Dame is given isn't as special as we let ourselves believe.
Notre Dame gets an automatic BCS bid if it is in the top 8. Big deal! That rule has never affected Notre Dame's fate. There has never been a time when Notre Dame has been in the top 8 and somebody got "stuck" with Notre Dame.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:48 pm to Stromile Swift
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:57 pm to Shankopotomus
They're missing out on so much more money not being in a conference. I really wish the BCS would say that they wouldn't be eligible for a BCS game until they joined a conference. I don't care if they play USC, Michigan, and all the other overrated teams.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 8:08 pm to Stromile Swift
Of course not. No reason to give up the money they make now.
in addition to being pussies............
in addition to being pussies............
Posted on 12/17/09 at 8:36 pm to tylercsbn9
When Kelly crashes and burn like the others before him, maybe the Peacock will pull that sweet TV deal.
The Big 10 would look pretty appealing to those arrogant jokers at that point, me thinks.
The Big 10 would look pretty appealing to those arrogant jokers at that point, me thinks.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 10:12 pm to Lacour
Another thing to consider regarding that tv deal:
When NBC signed up for this thing, you could count on Notre Dame playing a top ten schedule. In recent years, however, Notre Dame has openly softened their schedule--and even submitted press releases about it.
Therefore, Notre Dame football isn't as great as what NBC signed up for. They paid for a team who won 80% of its games against a top-notch schedule, and they're getting a team who wins 60% of its games against an mediocre or upper-mediocre schedule.
When NBC signed up for this thing, you could count on Notre Dame playing a top ten schedule. In recent years, however, Notre Dame has openly softened their schedule--and even submitted press releases about it.
Therefore, Notre Dame football isn't as great as what NBC signed up for. They paid for a team who won 80% of its games against a top-notch schedule, and they're getting a team who wins 60% of its games against an mediocre or upper-mediocre schedule.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 10:13 pm to xiv
Bring on Tulsa and Central Michigan.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 10:38 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
Check out this five-game stretch:
Western Michigan
Navy
Tulsa
Utah
army
Five weeks, no BCS teams. $9,000,000, NBC? Really?
Western Michigan
Navy
Tulsa
Utah
army
Five weeks, no BCS teams. $9,000,000, NBC? Really?
Posted on 12/17/09 at 10:44 pm to xiv
Why should Notre Dame join the Big 10? If anything they need to be in the Big East, like the rest of their programs. But, if they joined the Big East or Big 10 they would not be playing the traditional rivalry games and I for one do not have issue with them being an Independant.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 10:45 pm to sms151t
quote:Really?
But, if they joined the Big East or Big 10 they would not be playing the traditional rivalry games
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