Notre Dame to ACC

[mom8pop]

Getting Notre Dame, but no football is the same as dating a hot girl and not being allowed to touch her. There's still some benefits but, ultimately, you're not getting what you want.

I can understand why the ACC went for this, but overall I have agree with "meh".

 

[HopHead]

Better start the process to kick out Northwestern then.

At least Northwestern's main message board isn't named Wildcat Envy like Irish Envy for ND.

The impression I get is that most ND fans think there are two types of people in the world: Those that went to Notre Dame and those that wanted to but couldn't get in and had to settle for whatever school they went to.

 

[Goldmember]

No one will ever dare say so, but this deal effectively means Notre Dame is no longer independent in the sport of football. They are playing 5 ACC games, this is only one fewer conference game than Big East teams played a few seasons ago (2004) anyway.

Notre Dame would have been better of just embracing their fate as a soon-to-be-conference-affiliated football program. Two years ago they could have formed a national superconference on their own terms and had their choice of conference partners from the Big East, Mountain West, Conference USA and Army/Navy. They could have played all their rivals, kept their exclusive TV contracts, played in a CCG, and maintained control of 8 home/neutral site games.