It's been an awful move for ND athletics

It's been an awful move for ND athletics
by garbageplate (2022-11-26 17:15:07)

In reply to: Yeah, that seems silly though. posted by mocopdx

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Our football schedule is now diminished significantly by the half-dozen boring games (other than Clemson for now) every year. The benefit of being in the ACC for basketball has dissipated now that the league sucks, which crushes our SOS. It's also a horrible cultural fit and we have to deal with home cooking from the crooked Tobacco Road officials in all sports.

If Jack had been forced to make a decision purely for basketball and purely based on strength of league at the time of the decision, then I agree that it would be silly to criticize him. There were myriad other factors in the decision, however, and many sensible people recognized the move as terrible at the time it was made. It sucked then and it sucks even worse now, but at least Brian Kelly got to pad his wins and get a hefty pay day.

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I disagree for the reasons Bonger says below. * - 84david 2022-11-28 10:55:08
I disagree - El Kabong 2022-11-27 10:47:19
- Football takes top priority - garbageplate 2022-11-27 11:19:55
  - It can't work that way - El Kabong 2022-11-27 11:53:52
    - I don’t think that’s true at all - Garbageplate 2022-11-27 12:11:07
      - What were the other options? - El Kabong 2022-11-27 12:11:39
        I’m certain we could’ve struck a similar deal - Garbageplate 2022-11-27 13:02:39
        So to be clear... - El Kabong 2022-11-27 13:08:52
        I have no idea whether the terms would’ve been the same - Garbageplate 2022-11-27 13:12:43
        What evidence do you have to support this claim? - Ty Webb 2022-11-27 13:17:00
        Common sense - Garbageplate 2022-11-27 13:20:57
        Critical thinking would be open - nd67 2022-11-27 17:29:01
        Common sense would indicate - Ty Webb 2022-11-27 13:27:43
        We already were playing 3-4 B10 games per year - btd 2022-11-30 18:26:21
        I reject the notion that we needed a full tie-in for bowls - garbageplate 2022-11-27 18:03:44
        Bowls want "certainty" with regard to teams. That is why - wpkirish 2022-11-28 14:13:20
        What minor bowls? - Ty Webb 2022-11-27 22:12:32
        Not sure- it's a hypothetical scenario - garbageplate 2022-11-28 11:45:59
        Yes, they were waiting for us........... - Ty Webb 2022-11-28 15:05:42
        Hockey only had 6 teams and is a sport where the dominant - wpkirish 2022-11-28 14:20:51
        Don't forget the PAC 12 would triple and the Big 12 would - SECTION12 2022-11-27 16:21:24
        This seems the commonsense argument to me * - turtle17 2022-11-27 14:15:27