Comments on: Notre Dame to join Atlantic Coast Conference; football stays independent

By: mpsND'72

mpsND'72 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:37:32 +0000

In reply to Ted Kazmar. Excellent post! Points taken from “Excuses for Losing a Football Game?” Let's review all this on Sunday morning.

By: Older Domer

Older Domer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:05:29 +0000

The officials question is real. I’m guessing that we “ND” has more pull over the BE football officials now, than we had yesterday: Do they want to stay with the BE, or try to join the ACC?
That said, we’ll see how it plays out next week, when we get another BE crew, due to Michigan’s strange home field power.
What it’ll come down to is putting a hat on the ball, especially this week. I’t is going to be very hard to stop L. Bell, one on one. It might be easier to focus on the ball, in his big mitts an bang it out. If our linebackers and safteys do that three times, one or two early, we should win.
Again, I’m going back to stopping B. Apise.

By: Ed Tex Mattingly

Ed Tex Mattingly — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:00:16 +0000

FRIENDS: The joinder with the ACC offers an opportunity for ND to revamp its football schedule. For years I have hated the forced scheduling of B1G teams in September when, logically, those games against Purdue, MSU and UM should have been played in the colder half of the season. The B1G had the rule that B1G schools had to play in conference during Oct. and Nov. Due to our commitment to the ACC we can use that contract as an excuse to force the B1G schools to play ND during the natural time of second half, or, we can drop them. I see no need to continue to play MSU and UM both in the same year. I understand the traditional rivalry with in state Purdue but I have not liked the Michigan two some. I would have rather seen ND play Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, or even Indiana on a rotation wtit the twosome. What are your thoughts? Ed

By: Ted Kazmar

Ted Kazmar — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:46:17 +0000

ND’s move to the ACC is probably going to cost them the game at Mich State this Saturday. Big East officials will be on the field and they are not going to take this move very kindly. We can look forward to offensive holding calls on ND whenever ND makes a big play and conversely, if won’t take Mich State’s offensive line long to learn that the Big East officials won’t be calling them for holding. Same goes for pass interference. Of course the officials will call holding on Mich State if ND ever sacks the QB just to even out the penalty calls but the calls against Mich State won’t make any difference. The calls against ND will be devastating.

Just when the officiating has become fair for ND, the ND administration blows it again. They could have waited one week to announce this after the Mich State game. (The Michigan game always has Big 10 officials both on the field and in the reply box per the contract with Michigan.)

By: kfoz

kfoz — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:16:21 +0000

Great move I live in SC and now will be able to see the Irish more as they will be playing more game in the south east!

By: Older Domer

Older Domer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:03:58 +0000

The $50 million fee for leaving the ACC is to keep ND in if the four super-conferences ever happen. Who else has half that cash? It saves the ACC.

The Big East is toast. I’d bet that Saint John’s, Villanova and Georgetown, have all called the ACC to see if they would take another non-football member to make it a 16 team non-football conference. The basketball match-ups will benefit ND season ticket sales big time. That doesn’t mean those folks will show up all the time, but their money will still be banked. The business guys, and girls need to have a more efficient way of identifing empty seats and letting people move down and also letting people into a half full areana at some point into the game. It is called scalping. It actually helps everyone, the ticket holder, the poor fan, and especially the team.

Now, tighten the gaps, show the run, and beat State. “Kill Buba Kill”!

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:58:16 +0000

In reply to terry.

Terry, did you miss this part?:
“As part of the partnership with the ACC, Notre Dame has agreed to annually play five ACC opponents in football and each conference member at least once every three years.”
And don’t chalk up 4 losses in basketball every year just yet. We have beaten top ranked bball teams both at home and on the road multiple times in the last few years.

By: irishhawk50

irishhawk50 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:24:03 +0000

I agree that ND basically had their hand forced and this is a very good fall back position. I know that football is the tail that wags the dog, but this is also good for the non-football sports. It makes academic and geographic sense and I agree with other posters ND probably had to accept the 5 ACC football deal. I don’t know what the Big 10 will do now vis a vis their teams scheduling ND. I think they tried to put pressure on ND by hinting at scheduling problems in the hope of forcing ND’s hand. It did, in a sense, but not what the Big 10 were hoping for. I would still like to see ND play Michigan and/or Michigan State fairly regularly. Purdue I can live without, but since it is a traditional in-state rival they may remain on the schedule. I know the story about the relationship with Navy, but I would like to see ND rotate the service academies, a different one each year.

By: Jim Nazyum

Jim Nazyum — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:19:08 +0000

I would have much preferred the Big Ten, but this move is better than staying in the imploding Big East.

By: borromini

borromini — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:11:52 +0000

In reply to Rjbjr Irish.

At 7 ACC games every 2 years…the ACC would have never agreed to that. No this was ultimately the right move. Keeping the degree of independence we have today would have been increasingly more difficult as time went on.

Plus the 5 games per year really does help with football recruiting since now kids from the Southeast and Atlantic coast will find ND more attractive knowing that they’ll be playing in the region more often.