BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

ACC should reach out to the aggrieved aTm.

 

I'm not sure the B1G would be totally uninterested. A footprint in the Texas market would make a difference for them.

Academically TAMU would rank in the top half of the new B1G15 or whatever it was.

 

By God I would pay cash money to see the looks on the face of Midwesterners when they watch this cult of tightly wound nut-grabbing psychos dressed up to play soldier come marching into the stadium. And if they send the Corps of Cadets to Rutgers, I might cash in my 401k.

 

See the Michigan State/Penn State scandal thread for the B1G's rather extensive history with nut-grabbing psychos.

 

If and when the B1G gets to the near magic-equilibrium number of 15, I think if I were them, I'd give Notre Dame a little jingle with the following offer:

1) Join the B1G as a full member in all sports, with a phase-in period of 6-8 years to integrate football tv contracts, a specific scheduling carve-out to let them keep the USC series, or

2) Take your hockey team and go pound rocks. Immediate expulsion from the B1G hockey conference

3) Unconditional and absolute embargo on playing any B1G school in any other sports. Simply on the basis of location this would seriously fuck most ND non-revenue sports in terms of schedule. They could patch together schedules, but they'd essentially be playing MAC schedules in all the non-revenue sports.

Although if the B1G was enforcing a full court press embargo, the MAC could be probably be convinced quite quickly it would be in their own self interest to not play ND in anything, either.

 

Close but not quite. ATM would be 9th among 15 in the new Big Ten in the most recent US News rankings.

 

They'd probably be in the mid-level bunching of big land grant state U's in the middle.
At any rate "they couldn't cut the mustard academically" wouldn't fly as an argument to keep them out.

 

One thing COVID has absolutely proven to everybody: the long-standing alibi that football schedules must be engraved in concrete decades in advance doesn't stand up as a reason conference realignments can't work.

Over the last couple years we've seen games postponed, moved, canceled and rescheduled literally up to hours before kickoff, and the world has gone on.

 

As much as I can’t stand the PSU fan base and it’s holier than thou mindset (truly we should have seen Trump coming a mile away when we saw how absolutely devoted some of those weirdos were to a gym teacher. A gym teacher that hadn’t won a championship since Reagan), a&m fans might be the biggest cult there is. They built an 11 story bonfire and, when students literally died constructing this thing one year, anyone who mentioned, “hey maybe we shouldn’t do this again” was met with, “fuck that. Tradition.”

 

The resulting legal battle would probably destroy the entire structure of college sports, so I'm all for it.
PS: Notre Dame is already in the ACC in sports except football. Also, Hockey East would take Notre Dame in a heartbeat. It's an idle as well as illegal threat.