TerryD with the typical Fighting Irish defensiveness. Let’s break that post up sentence by sentence to see exactly how much is true:

Sentence 1: The trip every other year to Stanford is most definitely a recruiting trip.

Sentence 2&3: Instate recruiting and indeed recruiting throughout the Midwest’s urban Catholic centers has always been good to ND. This absolutely factored into why ND plays Purdue, Mich St, and Mich less.

Sentence 4: There absolutely could come a time where the independents are froze out of the playoff system. There are a ton of threads on this forum on how the Big Ten and SEC could become mega conferences and pit their winners against each other.

Sentence 5: The Irish would absolutely prefer to be a prima donna in the ACC rather than on equal footing with the Big Ten’s too programs. They’d have leverage in the ACC so if push came to shove that’s where they’d go. ND hates the Big Ten.

Sentence 6a: so you’re telling me that if ND could only keep 2 rivalry games they wouldn’t choose USC and Navy?

Sentence 6b: And that you wouldn’t want a home game against a MAC cupcake while still having room for a blue blood from another conference? Look at your own scheduling history—there’s always at least 1 buy game on there and there’s a rotation of big name schools from the SEC, Big Ten, and Big 12 (2020 Ark & Wisc, 2021 Wisc, 2022 Ohio St, Cal, 2023 Ohio St, 2024 TAMU, Purdue).

Sentence 7: The one about playing Navy on the West Coast that you actually agreed about.

Completely wrong? I don’t think so.