(05-11-2013 12:59 PM)Wedge Wrote: (05-11-2013 12:41 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: Any game scheduled between a B1G school and ND is a big money game for both schools. I doubt any ill feelings will prevent future scheduling between the two. Those are some great games, and just because ND wishes to remain Indy doesn't mean that these are not awesome regional games with fan friendly travel costs... JMHO.
What about ND rotating Big Ten opponents through ND's neutral-site games? Play Penn State at the Meadowlands, or Northwestern at Soldier Field. Wisconsin keeps trying to get a name team to play them in Green Bay (without Wisconsin returning the game, which is why they're having no luck) -- how about Wisconsin playing Notre Dame at Lambeau Field?
Well, ND's "neutral site" games (the "Shamrock Series") are actually ND "home games" played away from home.
ND only plays six true home games in South Bend lately and likes to move that seventh home game off site to a big venue as a "barnstorming" game.
ND controls the gate and NBC televises the game. ND brings the entire band, most of the university and almost all of the fans to the stadium.
ND wears its home uniforms and the field is converted to look like the one at ND Stadium with no logos and with diagonal stripes in the end zones.
It is all done to make that site (Cowboys Stadium, Alamodome, Yankee Stadium, Soldier Field, etc.) look like Notre Dame Stadium as much as possible.
They have been doing this for a while, now.
I don't think that Big Ten schools would go for a "one off" game like that.........
Maybe a home and home like this could work out?
The only other option would be to move a Big Ten school's home game to a neutral site? I doubt this would happen, either.
A true neutral site game would mean that someone is losing a home game.