Don't need you to "buy it"
First, I said "relevant" and "healthy".
ND's leaders and boosters think that joining a football conference will diminish it over time, making the program less relevant and less healthy as its national recruiting declines by being confined to a conference.
That is whose opinion counts here, not yours or any fan of any other school.
Fans of other teams like you don't care at all what happens to ND in the future in a conference.
Be honest. You are no friend or ally of ND.
Neither is any other fan, school or conference, including the ACC.
ND wants to stay independent, so that makes everyone in a conference an adversary or potential adversary to ND on that issue.
(That is fine, ND is well used to going it alone against everyone else)
So, fans of other schools saying "Just sign the contract, everything will be just great" means absolutely nothing at all.
Your entire motivation for pushing for ND to join the ACC is to "save it" and to milk ND for more money for Virginia Tech.
Otherwise, you don't care what happens to ND.
That is okay, just admit it, you are not on any moral high ground here.
It is all just about power, cash and survival here, no grander purpose.
Its all just business. Quit talking about some moral imperative here.
You want the ACC and Virginia Tech to roll around in the extra cash ND would bring in.
You want ND to surrender to the ACC now for less money versus staying independent for ten years and (hopefully not) surrender then to the SEC or Big Ten for lots more money.
Full stop.
I and many other ND fans take the exact opposite position.
That is the only difference here.
Second, your premise of only a 8 game conference schedule with Navy being one of them is built on quicksand.
There is no guarantee of Navy joining and everyone knows that once ND is in a conference, that conference schedule could go to 9 or 10 games a year if ESPN demands it, choking off ND in the process.
[Post edited by TerryD at 08/22/2021 10:08AM]
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Posted: 08/22/2021 at 10:08AM