(03-13-2015 10:25 AM)Thomas J. Crumpecker Wrote: (03-13-2015 10:21 AM)Thomas J. Crumpecker Wrote: (03-13-2015 10:16 AM)TerryD Wrote: (03-13-2015 10:08 AM)Thomas J. Crumpecker Wrote: (03-13-2015 09:57 AM)TerryD Wrote: [quote='ClairtonPanther' pid='11870564' dateline='1426256546']
OK. So what's your point?
He thinks that I rock. :)
The only thing about Youngstown is that the DeBartolo family (big ND boosters) are from there.
Does that mean anything ? Does anything ever mean anything?
Not far off from what I am saying. What your are leaving out IMHO is NBC and more content. NBC also has issue of wanting East Coast, Central and West Coast time zones. ND will play along due to money and of course NBC will ask them to. plies that Texas and NBC are key and are involved? Who knows?
Take a few PODS from each existing conference less SEC and you get a liking of the Irish. They like I said above will get more while others will be taken cared of better then now. SEE FSU. Notre Dame will still have INDY of whom they play. Make HUGE bucks. Hurt the BIG 10. Plus say they rule the day!
Ok, that is not going to happen, but nice idea anyway.
The only thing close to that I see ever having a remote chance is for Texas and ND to both refuse to renew their respective GOR's, bust up both the Big 12 and the ACC, then create their own conference from the best of both conferences.
The others would then have to band together in another new conference or find other conference homes.
Terry the thing we disagree on is at current moment of ND. If they do not do something of the above then they will be forced to either save ACC or lose it. If they do as I have been led to believe they shape whom they want from ACC. Plus collect others to form this national alliance. NBC and ND calling shots for the Irish future IMHO. Enough from me today. LOL
That is just it, though. ND can ride it out with the ACC until the latter is destroyed, then pick up the pieces and move on from there. That is indeed an option.
There is no way the listing of schools in your first post can come together.
Too many GOR's, too much Big Ten money, too many moving parts.......
What I can see happen is for Texas to bring five to seven friends (Oklahoma, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, TCU, Oklahoma State) and ND bring five to seven friends (FSU, Miami, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Duke, Pitt ) and form a new conference after those two GOR's expire.
That brings together Texas and ND, two of the most powerful and valuable franchises, and gives ND coverage over the Northeast, Southeast and Southwest and far as exposure goes.
Not as good as having seven games a year to control, but not bad if ND just HAS to join a football conference.
Again, I give all of this a snowball's chance, though.