(08-06-2020 07:19 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (08-06-2020 03:59 PM)TerryD Wrote: (08-06-2020 03:29 PM)pki1998 Wrote: (08-06-2020 08:59 AM)TerryD Wrote: No Navy/ND game for the first time in 93 years.
Bummer.
Really disappointed with Notre Dame on this one. Even if it ment it was the only game on the schedule Notre Dame should have played Navy. There is something to be said about loyalty, and Notre Dame didnt live up to the ideals with this one. I’m not sure I will watch a single Notre Dame game this year.
How do you know it wasn't Navy being unwilling to give up a home game?
ACC scheduling rules for 2020 precluded ND going to Annapolis.
To be able to play that game on that date, Navy would have had to go to South Bend or play ND in an ACC state.
I assume it was Navy being unwilling to go to South Bend, but it's still the ACC's fault, because it was Navy's year to be the home team. If it's your turn to be the home team, you have every right to be unwilling to give that up.
FWIW, the very last part of your post is incorrect. The ACC rules said Navy would have had to travel to Indiana. The game didn't necessarily have to be in South Bend, it could have been in say Indianapolis, but it had to be in the home state of the ACC team being played, not just any ACC state.
The details of what options were explored or offered or rejected may never be known for sure by those of us (i.e. EVERYONE on these or other message boards) NOT in the room where it happened.
My preference would obviously have been NMCMS. That would have required a THIRD party to approve, beyond the schools, so it is what it is.
A Navy "home" game in Indianapolis would have been okay - much like any other Navy home game in an NFL stadium, AND would have delivered valuable content to the AAC-ESPN contract. There are any number of reasons that could have just been too hard - maybe even if both institutions wanted that.
2020 game in South Bend would have made me queasy - whether pretending Navy was the home team or juggling a couple years of the rotation. But as a fan, I probably still would have preferred that to ending the longest continuous intersectional rivalry in college football.
My initial reaction was to call ND cowards or fools or both, but I guess Ive stepped back from that. Maybe I'll pull it out at some later date.
BYU is a meh+ consolation prize.
Extension to 2032 may mean more to me than the addition of BYU home and home does.
I guess I'll say "yes" if the ticket office offers me a shot at the Labor Day game. Heck novelty of a night game is a thing, I guess.
Still disappointed overall.