(03-03-2013 11:37 AM)gocards#1 Wrote:  

(03-03-2013 11:10 AM)TRest3 Wrote:  

(03-03-2013 07:02 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  

(03-03-2013 03:50 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(03-02-2013 07:59 PM)Villecard Wrote:  "Notre Dame will not be part of the basketball conference, because the Irish will be allowed to leave for the ACC a year early, which could also affect Louisville, which is also scheduled to depart for the ACC in 2014."

If you're the Aresco League schools, you don't want Louisville to play FB in the Aresco League in 2013, right? The league gets a BCS autobid for the 2013 season. Louisville ought to have a really good FB team in 2013. The Aresco Leaguers don't want Louisville to win their BCS autobid; they want one of their own to get that resume-boost to help the league moving forward.

The problem, of course, is that L'ville can't join the ACC for FB in 2013 because the ACC won't want 15 FB teams for this year. 16 hoops teams (including both L'ville and ND) could be accommodated, but not 15 FB teams.

The ACC may not "want" 15 FB teams but they would be willing (my opinion) to help Lou out of a bind.

What's the bind? UL doesn't feel like paying an increased exit fee to leave early? UL is too good to play one season with its historical rivals?

Forgive us if we don't excited at the prospect of playing Memphis, Temple, Houston, UCF, and UConn. It's hard to get motivated with that kind of a schedule.

The exit fee isn't the issue here. The issue is that the ACC has already hammered out its entire 2013 football schedule and adding a member would create uneven divisions and force them to start the schedule over from scratch, unless of course Maryland's lawsuit gets resolved in which case we'd slide into their spot and inherit their schedule.

Oh quit the ego trip. You're not as good as you think you are. You're not Texas or Ohio St.