Solution for Notre Dame

Bunch of d-bags IMO

Notre Dame still has the history of being Notre Dame, they may still have pull among recruits, and they have a large and annoying fanbase.

If Notre Dame wants to join the Big Ten, they join. I’m not sure I like that, but it’s just the way it is.

From CW @ Raking the Mallow

All of that being said, and I think I’ve made this point before, but if Notre Dame absolutely, 100% had to join a conference, I would be totally cool with hopping onboard with the ACC. You maintain a national footprint by playing games from Miami to Boston, with stops in Atlanta, Charlotte (sort of)and DC. You get great basketball – although not up to the quality of the Big East – and a bunch of really fun road trips for students. Even if Notre Dame swapped the non-football sports to the ACC from a crumbling Big East and agreed to a three or four game a year part-ACC schedule, I think that’s fantastic. While they’ve been mediocre as a conference for a while, individual ACC matchups are almost all somewhat enticing, if only for the road trip opportunities.

I’m not attacking the blog manager when I say this, but ARE YOU FRAKING KIDDING ME?"

Here is a simply solution to having ND join the Big 10. Just tell ND that is they want to play Big 10 schools they have to join the conference. End of story. Then let’s see what NDs schedule looks like without Michigan, MSU, Purdue, and any other Big Ten school. They usually have at least 3 Big Ten schools on their schedule every year. It would eliminate some of their largest stadiums and they’d be in big trouble. Pac 16 teams would have trouble scheduling them with all their new additional conference ties. So they would be screwed. Watch how quick they’d join then.

They already play a bunch of Big 10 schools & the MAC and Big 10 have the agreement that the Big 10 schools will play MAC schools. They can get the MAC’s automatic BCS slot each year…… oh, wait …… that’s right, the MAC doesn’t have one cause schools like ND don’t deserve to be in the BCS.

Ignore them. Let them and their self-delusion that they matter rot away in South Bend for another decade or so, and when NBC finally wises up and pulls their TV contract, they will have to go looking, hat in hand, for a conference that will accept them.

That is still true for the most part now, but another five years of being a 6-6 program is going to change that. After all, times change. If you were having this debate in 1950, you would be saying that Minnesota and Army are “still iconic programs readily identifiable to the average/casual fan.” Well, they aren’t anymore because they quit winning.