This will be a good thing in the long run for the Big East. The schools left are now all the schools that want to be there.

sources...sources....sources...

Where did you hear this? The West Virgina Scout forum?

(09-10-2012 03:54 PM)BE4evah Wrote:  This will be a good thing in the long run for the Big East. The schools left are now all the schools that want to be there.

Uhhh, ok....

Not. Buying. This.

Dickie V tweet

Nothing from any ND source.

Dickie V tweeted it earlier today from "ACC Sources". In all honesty thats a pretty decent source

Dickie V twitter

(09-10-2012 04:13 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Nothing from any ND source.

I just scanned ND message boards myself... Zippo on this one...

(09-10-2012 04:15 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(09-10-2012 04:13 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Nothing from any ND source.

I just scanned ND message boards myself... Zippo on this one...

Just linked it

(09-10-2012 04:15 PM)OldGoldnBlue Wrote:  Dickie V tweeted it earlier today from "ACC Sources". In all honesty thats a pretty decent source

Dickie V twitter

He did not.

http://twitter.com/DickieV

He tweeted this two days ago:



8 Sep Dick Vitale Dick Vitale ‏@DickieV

ACC source says ND could say YES to ACC -if football agrees to play 5/6 games in football vs ACC schools yearly! ND remains Quasi indep.

Terry, I totally understand ND's motivation for indy football. But wouldn't having all other sports in the ACC be worth 6 games? Pitt, Cuse, Miami, and BC are already there and they are regular opponents. Would four games against GT, VT, UNC, MD, UVA, etc. really be that painful? Seems like a better deal for ND than for the ACC.

um ok... still calling bullsh*t... but

https://twitter.com/DickieV/status/244432963557789697

ACC source says ND could say YES to ACC -if football agrees to play 5/6 games in football vs ACC schools yearly! ND remains Quasi indep

Still doesn't mean anything.

"According to ACC sources" (not ND ones)..."Could say yes"...."If".......

(09-10-2012 04:18 PM)TerryD Wrote:  "According to ACC sources" (not ND ones)..."Could say yes"...."If".......

key word.... COULD...

According to UL sources we could say yes to the SEC if they invite us to the conference

(09-10-2012 04:17 PM)JunkYardCard Wrote:  Terry, I totally understand ND's motivation for indy football. But wouldn't having all other sports in the ACC be worth 6 games? Pitt, Cuse, Miami, and BC are already there and they are regular opponents. Would four games against GT, VT, UNC, MD, UVA, etc. really be that painful? Seems like a better deal for ND than for the ACC.

Just my opinion, but it is not worth "straightjacketing" half the football schedule and tying it to one conference.

It is one thing to play 3 games against one conference or another.

It is quite different to mandate that ND play half its schedule every year with one conference.

Hell, what is the point of being "independent" then?

I hope to hell ND doesn't sell its soul to the devil here.

I don't think ND would ever agree to that. The most they have ever played vs new ACC is 4, and the average is closer to like 2.6 the last 15 years. Considering they have 3 Big Ten games, 2 Pac 12 games, and Navy, that would be their entire schedule. Thinking there isn't a shot of them agreeing to that at all.

(09-10-2012 04:21 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(09-10-2012 04:17 PM)JunkYardCard Wrote:  Terry, I totally understand ND's motivation for indy football. But wouldn't having all other sports in the ACC be worth 6 games? Pitt, Cuse, Miami, and BC are already there and they are regular opponents. Would four games against GT, VT, UNC, MD, UVA, etc. really be that painful? Seems like a better deal for ND than for the ACC.

Just my opinion, but it is not worth "straightjacketing" half the football schedule and tying it to one conference.

It is one thing to play 3 games against one conference or another.

It is quite different to mandate that ND play half its schedule every year with one conference.

Hell, what is the point of being "independent" then?

I hope to hell ND doesn't sell its soul to the devil here.

My thinking is that ND could easily end up playing three ACC teams pretty much every year forever just in the normal course of business. ND plays BC, Miami, Pitt and Cuse no matter what conference they are in. And think they's surely be willing to play GT, UVa and MD as well.

So you are basically just talking about trading three football games to provide a far superior home for Olympic and non-revenue sports. To me, the ACC is giving up way more than ND is giving up in that situation. So one thing is for sure, if ND thinks like you, and the ACC thinks like me, there is no way this EVER happens.