OT: Notre Dame to the ACC this year
Link says it all.
http://college-basketball.si.com/2013/03/11/notre-dame-set-to-jump-to-acc-next-year/
Very good news for the ACC, I would think.
March 12th, 2013 at 12:37 AM ^
is it for football too?
March 12th, 2013 at 12:42 AM ^
According to ACC fans, ND joining in full is a matter of time. Good luck to them.
That's what the Big East said too.
March 12th, 2013 at 12:41 AM ^
Now that the Big East a Catholic basketball conference, the 3 football schools that have been there the longest(UConn, Cincinatti, South Florida) probably just want to get the most exit money possible. I mean, UConn basketball has to recruit kids to the American 12 conference now.
March 12th, 2013 at 12:52 AM ^
Notre Dame is going to the ACC this year because there won't be an ACC by next year.
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If we hadn't already extended an invitation to UNC/UVa/GaTech, now's the time to do it. To hell with Notre Dame.
Is that like the Melvin Turpins?
March 12th, 2013 at 10:41 AM ^
to his friends.
March 12th, 2013 at 10:15 AM ^
...a pun on tuppins/tuppence/twopence.
Please someone save us
March 12th, 2013 at 10:46 AM ^
You realize your apostrophes are on the wrong side on your sig if your trying to tell us what years Uconn won? Unless your talking about minutes in soccer or something...
Good call, my mistake
I suppose we won't get them on the basketball schedule any time soon either.
In 5 years or so we're basically going to be able to rename the ACC the Big East anyways. I hope ND didn't burn any bridges leaving the Big East as half the conference is moving with them, and the rest isn't too far behind.
It has been brought up before, I believe, but one of the lasting legacies of Notre Dame in the Big East was their assistance in voting down what, for the conference at that point, would have been a lucrative television deal.
That deal, of course, is now a mere fraction of what it could have been, and Notre Dame, the Catholic 7, and some other school have since opted to leave, probably with this as a primary reason in some cases. Indeed, the Catholic 7 even took the name "Big East" with them, leaving the "Big East" of old to attempt a reinvention of itself.
If it should ever be the case that the ACC splits or is dissolved over time, I am sure the remaining mid-major would be happy to include Notre Dame and all of her varsity sports....on the schedule...as an out-of-conference game.
I will be sure to stop in South Bend, Indiana.
The ACC's tradition of mediocrity meshes well with ND's recent history
March 12th, 2013 at 10:55 AM ^
Fuck Notre Dame for refusing to play us in the future so they can load up on more cupcakes.
March 12th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^
Cupcakes are all they'll have left after the B1G absorbs UNC and Virginia and the SEC picks up Clemson and Florida State.
We may also pick up Duke. The SEC will pick up VaTech. We will both expand our footprints which is what this is all about.
March 13th, 2013 at 10:33 AM ^
Yeah, I suppose Duke would be a possibility if the ultimate goal of the conference was to expand to 18 or 20 schools. My assumption is that our target right now is to get to 16 and call it good, but I could be wrong.
ND obviously feels that the ACC is a natural extension of how they schedule: lots of low-hanging fruit that looks OK in the computers, a few almost elite teams, and one or two really tough games a year.
It's sorta sad that they have to make their kids travel that much when the Big Ten would be so much easier. This move really says that ND is afraid of the Big Ten, better than any commenter, blog post, or article could.