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Jack isn't going to do jack. by SWPaDem

He really hasn't done anything in the past to secure our independence, I guess unless you want to call agreeing to a 5+ football game commitment to the ACC well into the 2030s along with supplementing these moribund games with one and now two "buy" games securing our independence. Why would he start now? He was hired to "monitor the landscape" along with monetizing whatever else he could and that's it. Proactively taking measures to secure our independence is not how he operates. Not at a measly $3 million per.

Oh, he'll stick his finger in the air after a swig of WhistlePig and misread what's going on - he's not exactly an expert in gauging atmospheric conditions - until it's too late to be a player and take what's given him, if you know what I mean. Do it two times and it's a tradition.

He's been a terrible hire for those who long for the glory days of what Notre Dame Football once was. We could have been a leader; we could have been a contender; instead we're a two-bit pretender plying our trade on the most hallowed artificial turf in all of college football.



Instead, Jack fancied himself an architect of a would-be 12-team playoff scenario while Rome was set to burn.