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Notre Dame to join ACC next season
Fox Sports ^ | 3/12/13

Posted on 03/12/2013 1:46:31 PM PDT by Libloather

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame is joining the Atlantic Coast Conference a season earlier than expected, following the split among the Big East's football schools and seven Catholic schools that are leaving to form a basketball-focused conference.

Notre Dame announced the move Tuesday, six months after it surprised the college sports world by opting to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey.

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To: wrcase

I believe there will be a college football version of the Premier League, where the big programs will break away from the NCAA, and set up their own TV contracts, and even allow member schools to pay their players.


21 posted on 03/12/2013 5:06:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lesko

Crapola, Boise State agreed to go to the ACC but thankfully backed out in December. Talk about a stretch.


22 posted on 03/12/2013 5:13:40 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: dfwgator

If you’re proposing a minor league system to replace college football, I’m with you all the way. Let good high school players play for pay like baseball players on NFL farm teams. I don’t think pro college football would work as a rival to the NFL. College football is too regional to generate the TV revenue that the NFL gets. With the smaller TV revenue the teams would never be able to generate the revenue to get the good NFL players to come over. The talent is too watered down as it is and a second pro league would just water it down more. That’s why I prefer NFL farm teams as an alternative.


23 posted on 03/12/2013 5:29:44 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

Trey Burke Big Ten POY? Baloney! Victor and the boys all the way to Atlanta!


24 posted on 03/12/2013 5:43:20 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: xkaydet65

Money talks no matter what any college president says. Maryland’s athletic department had massive debts so the B10 offers to help, the B10 network doles out uber-millions to each school each year. And for paying off their debt the B10 gets its foot in the DC basketball backyard. Rutgers gets New York basketball talent flowing into IU.


25 posted on 03/12/2013 5:47:35 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: Libloather

Look for those colleges that do not go to the basketball only NEW Big East, called for now, the America 12 to in time merge either with the ACC or the Big 10 to create a whole new conference.


26 posted on 03/12/2013 6:27:50 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: xkaydet65

Now if we could get a new President, Board of Trustees and Theology Department.

GO IRISH!!!!!

P.S. Congratulations to Muffet McGraw and the girls, Big East regular season and tournament champions, 61-59 winners over the girly man Geno Auriemma and UCONN.


27 posted on 03/12/2013 6:32:02 PM PDT by nd76
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To: wrcase

ND has their own TV deal, they don’t want a football conference. Why a conference would take them without football is beyond me


28 posted on 03/12/2013 6:38:09 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Figment

If there are 4 super conferences of 16 teams (Big-10, SEC, Big 12, Pac-12) who agree to just play each other and Notre Dame isn’t part of it, NBC will drop ‘em. Notre Dame will be reduced to playing I-AA schools. Who will be left for them to play?


29 posted on 03/12/2013 6:44:49 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: wrcase

I think it would be fun if they tiered it like European soccer leagues....

Take the best 13 teams, and play a 12-game schedule against all of the other teams. The Top-Four teams then enter a playoff to determine the champion.

The bottom three teams get demoted for the next season, and the top three teams from the “Second Division” get promoted.


30 posted on 03/12/2013 6:49:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

If they do go the 64 team set-up (and I hope it does happen)I think an 8-team playoff works nice. The winners of the conference championship games get home games against the losers of their conference championship games in the 1st round, for example top seeded champion would host the lowest seed championship game loser. For the final 4, the 2 top seeds get home games. Championship game top seed gets to play at home. The money generated by this would be astronomical and would rival the basketball tournament.


31 posted on 03/12/2013 7:05:16 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: dfwgator

I think the B1G has wanted them for a long time, but only the ACC is going to take them on their terms.

From everything I’ve read the deal is great for ND (gives them some bowl tie-ins and favoritism over actual ACC members to get in those bowls).

FSU should have a good shot at getting through the ACC and if they get past UF into the coming playoff. I’m glad we’ll get to play ND every few years (4?) as they rotate through the ACC teams.

Catch tonight’s baseball game? ;)


32 posted on 03/12/2013 10:05:19 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

Meh, we stink this year.


33 posted on 03/12/2013 10:06:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nd76

Congrats to ND and GOOD RIDDENS! ND will learn the ACC will NOT be a cakewalk!


34 posted on 03/13/2013 2:48:03 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: dfwgator

It has become more fun watching the conclave than college b-ball as of late.


35 posted on 03/13/2013 4:23:32 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: wrcase

If these 64 schools are really, really smart, they will ditch the NCAA and start their own governing body.


36 posted on 03/13/2013 9:53:52 AM PDT by fnord (My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
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To: fnord

It will happen inevitably.


37 posted on 03/13/2013 9:54:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fnord

I’m no fan of the NCAA, but I actually see the NCAA increasing their power by taking over I-A college football’s postseason. If the schools try to leave the NCAA, the NCAA can threaten their other sports. For example Kansas which will be in the superconference of the Big-12 isn’t going to give up their basketball revenue so that Texas and Oklahoma can get more football money. Same thing in the SEC with Kentucky. The Big-12 and SEC would also lose Kansas and Kentucky’s revenue from the basketball tournament. I wouldn’t mind the NCAA taking over the post-season in football and destroying the power of the old extortionists in checkered blazers known as the bowl committees. The bowl games can disappear to the ash heap of history where they belong. Let’s face it, the college basketball postseason is infinitely superior to college football’s postseason.


38 posted on 03/13/2013 4:09:40 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: wrcase

Dream on.Those “Super Confrences” aren’t going to just play themselves for one. I’m not a fan of ND but the brand has value in footbal and is not about to lose it that easy. This 4 ,16 team confrences has been talked about for awhile, problem is, they can’t keep teams under contract long enough to do it. The SEC started this and is the only conference that can pull it off so far. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out, and if the NCAA survives. ND football will though


39 posted on 03/13/2013 4:58:34 PM PDT by Figment
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