(06-20-2012 04:38 PM)4x4hokies Wrote: (06-20-2012 04:23 PM)Wedge Wrote: (06-20-2012 04:11 PM)ohio1317 Wrote: 3. The ACC is should be making this same offer and then the interest would be more mutual. It would be a big opportunity to for them solidly their gains in the northeast. The extra games against Notre Dame might well also be a bigger deal for the ACC.
4. My guess is that if this comes to pass, Notre Dame isn't eligible for the Big 12/SEC Bowl, but will be for any other Big 12 tie-in.
If (4) is right, that's two points where the ACC could beat the B12's offer: Tell ND they only have to play 2 or 3 ACC opponents in football, and give them access to the Orange Bowl.
Again, that's if the ACC is smart enough and awake enough to do that.
They have been playing more than 2 or 3 ACC opponents per year anyway so I'm not seeing where that is an advantage.
There isn't much money in adding one more men's basketball program to the ACC. They already have a pretty good lineup of basketball teams. The other sports don't bring in money so there is no point in them either.
So you'd have the ACC give up bowl slots to ND for less football games than they are playing now in exchange for ND's basketball program.
Why would the ACC care if ND is a partial member of the Big East or a partial member of the B12? If full membership is on the line then it is a different story. The basketball league that ND plays in doesn't matter. It didn't hold the Big East together so why would it make the B12 a lot more powerful?
If we move Pitt/Syracuse to the ACC for past and future schedules
2008- 4 (Pitt, Syracuse, North Carolina, BC)
2009- 2 (BC, Pitt)
2010- 2 (BC, Pitt)
2011- 4 (Wake, BC, Pitt, Maryland)
2012- 4 (Miami, Wake, Pitt, BC)
2013- 1 (Pitt) 11 games scheduled
2014- 2 (Syracuse, Pitt) 11 games
2015- 4 (Wake, Pitt, Syracuse, BC) 11 games
2016- 4 (Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Miami) 11 games
2017- 2 (Syracuse, Miami) 9 games