I’m all for ND joining a league

If it’s a quasi Ivy League tier school conference. BI mentioned this the other week.

Spitballing...

East: Duke, UNC, Wake, UVA, Vanderbilt, Army, Navy, Georgia Tech

West: Stanford, Northwestern, Rice, Cal, USC, UCLA, ND, Air Force

As this is set up, 7 games you play in your group every year, 2 in other group that rotates home and away and then 3 out of conference.

I’m happy to switch out a few of these schools if need be. Tulane, Florida, or even BC could be alternates or added. You can add Hopkins for lacrosse. Perhaps add a few other schools that do not have Div 1 football, but do for other sports, like Georgetown, Nova, or William and Mary. I’m sure there are a few western schools that fit this as well.

If you really wanted to push it you could consider Texas, Wisconsin, or I guess Michigan (I like not including them as a kind of FU, but that’s me).

I’m sure there are different ways to set this up.

UNC? Hell, they should have lost their accreditation. *

Smells like an ACC suckhole to me

From a football perspective this collection of teams sucks balls. I have little use for most of them.

I admit on paper the football teams look weak

Perhaps swapping out G Tech for Florida would improve the football a bit and take out an ACC team. Unfortunately the ACC has more top rated schools than any other conference.
As I mentioned, I’m all for considering a Wisconsin or Texas as well.

I just hate the idea of joining the Big 10 and would like to see a conference that at least on the education quality is close to ND standards.

I rather stay Independent, but the NCAA is trying to force ND’s hand. If they are going to try to force a conference on us I rather it be a group of schools that make sense for ND and they help dictate what schools represent that conference. No group would be perfect.

I don’t think the doomsday scenario makes any sense.

Gameday is following ND to Ireland next year. The program prints money and draws good ratings, for a variety of conferences. College football is doing well and does better when its one independent team is successful and traveling the country. Who wants to give up their ND game so ND can play Rutgers/Minnesota/Illinois or Duke/Wake/Syracuse?

Screwing with ND’s value is not in the sport’s best interest. I don’t think it’ll happen.

The problem with that analysis

Is that no one gives a shit about the sport of college football. Everyone places school or conference interests above all else. Just look at the realignment that happened. They think if they can knock ND down and help themselves, they will. Without thinking twice.

Remember when Delany was trying to get GT and Carolina

To the B1G? (I don't know if this was ever confirmed, but it was out there.) It was all about trying to force ND out of the ACC and leaving them with no other choice.

jointing?

Pot isn't legal nationwide yet.

Fixed *