Football Follies

[cactuswatcher]

So Notre Dame is joining the ACC in everything except football. And they have agreed to play 5 ACC teams in football every year. I haven't heard whether the ACC has handed ND any bowl slots they can grab like the Big East did. It's kind of strange that the Irish just didn't join the Big 12, including in football, as A&M and Missouri were leaving. ND could have kept all its NBC money to itself and no one would have said boo. Within a few years being a football independent could easily be as big a drawback as being a member of the stripped down Big East. I don't think ND's baskeball team is going to do better in the ACC than it did in the Big East. As long as they didn't give up much I think the ACC is the winner in this deal, though I don't know how scheduling an odd number of teams is going to work in basketball.

ETA: ACC is allowing ND access to their non-BCS bowls, which is about the same deal ND had with the Big East. It's a way to get slightly better deals from your bowl partners at the expense of not profiting from it any time ND is half-way decent and not great. Since the BCS is going away, I wonder what the deal will be with the ACC, ND and the Orange bowl in 2014 and beyond

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I kind of think this is stupid, but I'm obviously trapped in the past when it comes to this sort of issue. I still haven't really accepted Florida State, and they joined twenty years' ago.

It just mostly comes across as more games against 1990s Big East refugees I don't care about, and fewer games against the bitter rivals I truly detest. I hate that this may cost us the annual football game vs. Clemson. We already lost our home & home basketball game against North Carolina.

I know this is where the sport is going, but I don't like it. It'll keep the conference from getting raided, but the ACC is so far from the conference I started watching that I kind of don't care, and am getting more and more ready for Maryland's eventual move to the Big Ten.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I'm very lost with Missouri's move to the SEC. With their new anti-traditional unis it's even hard to relate to them. . But, at least the future prospect of playing Arkansas a lot, seems all right. I imagine it's far worse for West Virginia fans this year.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Sure. West Virginia fits in the Big 12 about as well as San Diego State fits in the Big East...

At this point, they almost ought to just completely blow up all the conferences and start over.