(06-10-2016 02:30 PM)TerryD Wrote:  If/when word comes out that the ACC/ESPN put pressure on ND football to join the conference or even play a sixth ACC football game per year to help with payouts, content and an ACC Network, and ND refused, don't be mad.


It should come as no surprise.

DON'T GO AWAY MAD

reap the benefits by joining in toto ...
or stay apart ...
subsidizing our lavish lifestyle ...
and you will ...
because there's no way getting around it except going cold turkey ...

CATCH 22

(06-10-2016 02:07 PM)Dasville Wrote:  

(06-10-2016 01:50 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(06-10-2016 01:31 PM)green Wrote:  

(06-10-2016 01:04 PM)TerryD Wrote:  ND joining a conference would mean a huge loss of football donations from alumni, an amount which dwarfs any proposed TV deal. In that context, the ACC Network and the ESPN deals are...

CHICKEN FEED

YOU'LL GET OVER IT

Green, when it comes to ND related stuff, you are




CLUELESS

The woman on the left is a conservative talk show guest. The woman in the middle prechews her babies food and spits it in her mouth like a bird and the woman on the right is dead. This has nothing to do with the thread but rather just random observation.

Wow - The world changes FAST!

I think that ND's specialness is going away, and I think that ND's desire to be Indy is slowly fading. It will be a while, but I think that the Irish will eventually be full members.

However, I'm pretty content w/ the ACC as is. The conference has its faults for sure, but it is a great conference.

(06-10-2016 02:53 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  I think that ND's specialness is going away, and I think that ND's desire to be Indy is slowly fading. It will be a while, but I think that the Irish will eventually be full members.

However, I'm pretty content w/ the ACC as is. The conference has its faults for sure, but it is a great conference.

People have been saying the first sentence since the Fifties, yet here we are.

Do you have any references, quotes or citations for this "slowly fading" desire by ND to be independent?

I don't think that ND football will be a conference member unless champs only legislation is passed for eligibility to a four team playoff happens (which I personally seriously doubt will occur).

That said, I am content with the status quo between the ACC and ND. I hope that it never gets more involved than it is right now.

(06-10-2016 03:04 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(06-10-2016 02:53 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  I think that ND's specialness is going away, and I think that ND's desire to be Indy is slowly fading. It will be a while, but I think that the Irish will eventually be full members.

However, I'm pretty content w/ the ACC as is. The conference has its faults for sure, but it is a great conference.

People have been saying the first sentence since the Fifties, yet here we are.

Do you have any references, quotes or citations for this "slowly fading" desire by ND to be independent?

I don't think that ND football will be a conference member unless champs only legislation is passed for eligibility to a four team playoff happens (which I personally seriously doubt will occur).

That said, I am content with the status quo between the ACC and ND. I hope that it never gets more involved than it is right now.

1. ND has been fading since then. When's your last NC? I want to say it was around 88. That's almost 30 years.

2. I obviously haven't done a statistically accurate study, but I don't know a recent alum who cares about being Indy. Admittedly, I only know about 3-4 alums and 1 only went there for grad school, but none of them care. You and all the older alums that I know care. Once you guys aren't here anymore, and once ND is pushing ~50 years w/o a NC, what's going to stop ND from joining?

Breaking news: Notre Dame will join ACC football on September 31st

(06-11-2016 07:33 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Breaking news: Notre Dame will join ACC football on September 31st

Are you sure that's its not June 31?

nm

Check your calendar. What day of the week is Sept. 31?

(06-11-2016 11:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Check your calendar. What day of the week is Sept. 31?

Tuesday

4:00 p.m. :)

(06-11-2016 11:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Check your calendar. What day of the week is Sept. 31?

Same as February 30?