I'm pretty agnostic about ACC membership, but ...
by CJC (2022-11-27 19:42:38)

In reply to: Sure thing, Mrs. Swarbrick  posted by garbageplate

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you are absolutely falling for the Swarbrick/Kelly shell game regarding football scheduling.

I'm not excited about seeing anyone from the ACC other than Clemson on our football schedule, but that five-game commitment leaves seven games on the schedule. While I do believe that, as an independent, Notre Dame needs to "over-schedule" to a degree if it's serious about having a resume that stands up to major conference champions in front of the playoff committee, but that is entirely possible, even with the five-game ACC commitment.

The problem is that Swarbrick has treated those games as a murderer's row, rather than the four breathers that they truly are. He sold the lemmings the line that, "We have BC and NC State and Wake Forest ... every year, so we need to schedule breathers from that by playing Marshall and Toledo and UNLV and Western Michigan and Ball State and Bowling Green ...."

It looks like you're one of the lemmings.

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