Realignment is following Notre Dame's script.

The Irish were cheated out of a last second football win in Tallahassee a few years ago. And just like the Irish stand against Rutgers when they moved a scheduled game at the Meadowlands to Rutgers newly remodeled stadium on campus........the Irish just don't forget.

A year or so ago Swarbrick started complaining that it was just too hard for Notre Dame to travel to Florida State, and right on cue the 'Noles started making noise about getting out of the ACC.....the handwriting was on the wall.

Notre Dame encouraged the ACC to add Stanford and Cal after the B1G tried to corner the Irish by grabbing Southern Cal.
SMU gives the Irish access to Texas, where their lacrosse team had played exhibition games before large crowds......Lacrosse in Texas.

The Irish have already scheduled a home and home series with USF, which seems to be a "no brainer' addition to the ACC, should Florida State exit

The Irish, if not ESPN, will find a way to get Clemson some extra money to keep them in place. The conference marketability requires a dominant team in the south to counter balance the evil Notre Dame football machine.

Notre Dame's fingerprints have been all over realignment for the longest time and there is no reason to believe that the Irish will allow any major changes that will jeopardize their situation now, where they have a compatible home for their sports while being able to maintain what they call "football independence".

Swarbrick charted the course and mapped out the route that Bevacqua needs to follow.

(03-30-2024 09:49 AM)XLance Wrote:  

(03-30-2024 08:38 AM)tf8693 Wrote:  

(03-28-2024 03:13 PM)XLance Wrote:  You have to wonder "what else" will change in South Bend?

For starters, I'd like to see them get rid of the artificial turf in the football stadium and replace it with natural grass, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

Btw, ESPN's constant proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, ND isn't "in" South Bend. The mailing address for the ND campus is Notre Dame, IN, and if you ever visit the campus, you probably will notice a sort of geographic disconnect between South Bend and the Notre Dame campus.

I thought Saint Mary's was in Notre Dame, but Notre Dame was in South Bend.

Both are in Notre Dame

(03-30-2024 11:35 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(03-30-2024 09:19 AM)gosports1 Wrote:  a little off topic but why did he start in March and not at the end of the school year?

Bevacqua was hired last summer.

He "shadowed" Jack Swarbrick from then to last week to learn the ropes.

On the job training.

Swarbrick had Bevacqua negotiate the college football playoff expansion issues for ND as a way to get a head start on the job.

Swarbrick officially retired this week, but will be "AD Emeritus" until June.

Thanks

(03-30-2024 12:10 PM)XLance Wrote:  Realignment is following Notre Dame's script.

The Irish were cheated out of a last second football win in Tallahassee a few years ago. And just like the Irish stand against Rutgers when they moved a scheduled game at the Meadowlands to Rutgers newly remodeled stadium on campus........the Irish just don't forget.

A year or so ago Swarbrick started complaining that it was just too hard for Notre Dame to travel to Florida State, and right on cue the 'Noles started making noise about getting out of the ACC.....the handwriting was on the wall.

Notre Dame encouraged the ACC to add Stanford and Cal after the B1G tried to corner the Irish by grabbing Southern Cal.
SMU gives the Irish access to Texas, where their lacrosse team had played exhibition games before large crowds......Lacrosse in Texas.

The Irish have already scheduled a home and home series with USF, which seems to be a "no brainer' addition to the ACC, should Florida State exit

The Irish, if not ESPN, will find a way to get Clemson some extra money to keep them in place. The conference marketability requires a dominant team in the south to counter balance the evil Notre Dame football machine.

Notre Dame's fingerprints have been all over realignment for the longest time and there is no reason to believe that the Irish will allow any major changes that will jeopardize their situation now, where they have a compatible home for their sports while being able to maintain what they call "football independence".

Swarbrick charted the course and mapped out the route that Bevacqua needs to follow.

That’s true.
Tom Jurich used to say every Louisville fan should root for Notre Dame as well.

When Louisville was in CUSA, the Notre Dame athletic director would take Tom to The Big East meetings so Tom could network with Big East administrators.

When VaTech and Miami left The Big East, Notre Dame pushed for Louisville to be invited.

When Louisville joined The ACC, Notre Dame was one of the schools Jurich pushed for Louisville to be invited to replace Maryland.

I honestly don’t know why Notre Dame has always been in our corner but they always have been.

(03-30-2024 06:54 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(03-30-2024 12:10 PM)XLance Wrote:  Realignment is following Notre Dame's script.

The Irish were cheated out of a last second football win in Tallahassee a few years ago. And just like the Irish stand against Rutgers when they moved a scheduled game at the Meadowlands to Rutgers newly remodeled stadium on campus........the Irish just don't forget.

A year or so ago Swarbrick started complaining that it was just too hard for Notre Dame to travel to Florida State, and right on cue the 'Noles started making noise about getting out of the ACC.....the handwriting was on the wall.

Notre Dame encouraged the ACC to add Stanford and Cal after the B1G tried to corner the Irish by grabbing Southern Cal.
SMU gives the Irish access to Texas, where their lacrosse team had played exhibition games before large crowds......Lacrosse in Texas.

The Irish have already scheduled a home and home series with USF, which seems to be a "no brainer' addition to the ACC, should Florida State exit

The Irish, if not ESPN, will find a way to get Clemson some extra money to keep them in place. The conference marketability requires a dominant team in the south to counter balance the evil Notre Dame football machine.

Notre Dame's fingerprints have been all over realignment for the longest time and there is no reason to believe that the Irish will allow any major changes that will jeopardize their situation now, where they have a compatible home for their sports while being able to maintain what they call "football independence".

Swarbrick charted the course and mapped out the route that Bevacqua needs to follow.

That’s true.
Tom Jurich used to say every Louisville fan should root for Notre Dame as well.

When Louisville was in CUSA, the Notre Dame athletic director would take Tom to The Big East meetings so Tom could network with Big East administrators.

When VaTech and Miami left The Big East, Notre Dame pushed for Louisville to be invited.

When Louisville joined The ACC, Notre Dame was one of the schools Jurich pushed for Louisville to be invited to replace Maryland.

I honestly don’t know why Notre Dame has always been in our corner but they always have been.

Maybe because Louisville was the home of "The Golden Boy", Paul Hornung ??

(03-30-2024 12:10 PM)XLance Wrote:  Realignment is following Notre Dame's script.

The Irish were cheated out of a last second football win in Tallahassee a few years ago. And just like the Irish stand against Rutgers when they moved a scheduled game at the Meadowlands to Rutgers newly remodeled stadium on campus........the Irish just don't forget.

A year or so ago Swarbrick started complaining that it was just too hard for Notre Dame to travel to Florida State, and right on cue the 'Noles started making noise about getting out of the ACC.....the handwriting was on the wall.

Notre Dame encouraged the ACC to add Stanford and Cal after the B1G tried to corner the Irish by grabbing Southern Cal.
SMU gives the Irish access to Texas, where their lacrosse team had played exhibition games before large crowds......Lacrosse in Texas.

The Irish have already scheduled a home and home series with USF, which seems to be a "no brainer' addition to the ACC, should Florida State exit

The Irish, if not ESPN, will find a way to get Clemson some extra money to keep them in place. The conference marketability requires a dominant team in the south to counter balance the evil Notre Dame football machine.

Notre Dame's fingerprints have been all over realignment for the longest time and there is no reason to believe that the Irish will allow any major changes that will jeopardize their situation now, where they have a compatible home for their sports while being able to maintain what they call "football independence".

Swarbrick charted the course and mapped out the route that Bevacqua needs to follow.

The idea that ND is pulling all the strings on realignment is patently absurd.

If ND were pulling all the strings on realignment, I doubt USC would have wound up in the Big Ten. The Big Ten, after all, is the conference that ND repeatedly has spurned in recent years, and before that,was the conference that repeatedly spurned ND. A lot of bad blood between the two, certainly enough that ND would not want its principal rival there. It did work out okay for ND in hindsight, but that's because ND's broadcast partner (that would be NBC, not ESPN) ended up as part of the Big Ten's new media rights package. But no one knew that would be the case at the time USC's move to the Big Ten was announced.

As for Florida State, if ND is trying to get them out of the ACC, then ND certainly isn't listening to its fanbase. Most of ND's fanbase hates the requirement that ND has to play an average of five games per year against ACC members, because they see the ACC as a relatively weak football conference on the field of play. Removing the strongest member, historically speaking, of that conference only exacerbates that problem.

Finally, if ND truly desires to remain independent for the long term, then ND's best interests are served by a more decentralized system in college athletics. A move toward a P2 structure only makes it easier for the P2, if they are so inclined, to freeze ND out by reducing or eliminating access to quality opponents on the schedule and/or to the CFP

(03-30-2024 06:54 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  ... Tom Jurich used to say every Louisville fan should root for Notre Dame as well.

When Louisville was in CUSA, the Notre Dame athletic director would take Tom to The Big East meetings so Tom could network with Big East administrators.

When VaTech and Miami left The Big East, Notre Dame pushed for Louisville to be invited.

When Louisville joined The ACC, Notre Dame was one of the schools Jurich pushed for Louisville to be invited to replace Maryland.

I honestly don’t know why Notre Dame has always been in our corner but they always have been.

It's got to be something about their basketball history, with Louisville and Notre Dame playing in the 50's, and then starting up again in the late 80's. It can't be football, since they didn't play in football until 2014.

Notre Dame will likely be independent for the course of all of our lives. Expansion to 14 with protections for ND is the final nail in the coffin. The CFP will likely never get smaller than 14 again and will likely only expand from here making it even easier to ND to get in and get in regularly.

(03-31-2024 10:41 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(03-30-2024 06:54 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  ... Tom Jurich used to say every Louisville fan should root for Notre Dame as well.

When Louisville was in CUSA, the Notre Dame athletic director would take Tom to The Big East meetings so Tom could network with Big East administrators.

When VaTech and Miami left The Big East, Notre Dame pushed for Louisville to be invited.

When Louisville joined The ACC, Notre Dame was one of the schools Jurich pushed for Louisville to be invited to replace Maryland.

I honestly don’t know why Notre Dame has always been in our corner but they always have been.

It's got to be something about their basketball history, with Louisville and Notre Dame playing in the 50's, and then starting up again in the late 80's. It can't be football, since they didn't play in football until 2014.

Digger Phelps was the basketball coach at ND when I was a student there. Digger had nothing but contempt for Joe B. Hall, who was Kentucky's basketball coach at the time. He spoke more than once about a proposed in-season basketball tournament involving Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville and ND that Joe B. allegedly scuttled

As to Louisville, I think Digger was guided by "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mindset.

It's been a minute since either Digger or Joe B. coached, but for the most part, Digger had outsized influence at ND during his time there.