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For those members of the Catholic 7 schools, this should be old hat. For years and years and years, Big East football schools placed the conference's problems squarely at the feet of the Catholic schools. A favorite argument was that the Catholic schools were protecting Notre Dame who should never have been invited without football and should have later been kicked out for not bringing their football program into the league. As each football member pledged loyalty and then left, all you would here is Notre Dame could have prevented this. In fact, Jim Boeheim singled out Notre Dame at a press conference for their failure to bring football in and prevent the torrent of departures from the league. But when Notre Dame joined the ACC, you heard nothing from Cuse or their fans, who thought it was a great move, or anyone else. Except for now. Coach K is out there saying he would have never let ND in without football and wondered whether Duke and UNC should get a special deal for some of their teams. Guess it's not all sunshine and happiness on Tobacco Road. Funny stuff.

Notre Dame is playing 5 ACC games a year right?

redmen9194 wrote:For those members of the Catholic 7 schools, this should be old hat. For years and years and years, Big East football schools placed the conference's problems squarely at the feet of the Catholic schools. A favorite argument was that the Catholic schools were protecting Notre Dame who should never have been invited without football and should have later been kicked out for not bringing their football program into the league. As each football member pledged loyalty and then left, all you would here is Notre Dame could have prevented this. In fact, Jim Boeheim singled out Notre Dame at a press conference for their failure to bring football in and prevent the torrent of departures from the league. But when Notre Dame joined the ACC, you heard nothing from Cuse or their fans, who thought it was a great move, or anyone else. Except for now. Coach K is out there saying he would have never let ND in without football and wondered whether Duke and UNC should get a special deal for some of their teams. Guess it's not all sunshine and happiness on Tobacco Road. Funny stuff.

Notre Dame just needed to hold up thier end of bargain, which they never did on football. But say they did and Big East holds the ship together.

If all the football defections are in BIG EAST today prior to 2005 addition, you have eight east coast schools with 5 to 6 which are name brand football schools ( UConn, BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Miami, Rutgers, West Virginia, Virgina Tech). Along with the promised 3 to 4 games with Norte Dame a year. Add that to basketball members Gerorgetown, Providence, St John's, Seton Hall, Villanova. The conference would be premier basketball conference and still hold value in football.

Conference did not seem to promote the value it had and (from the outside looking in) seems to have a problem with money divide between football and non-football schools.

I'm content with Notre Dame never participating in another Big East game. They've made their choice and so have we.

ArmyVet wrote:I'm content with Notre Dame never participating in another Big East game. They've made their choice and so have we.

Amen

NovaSpider wrote:

ArmyVet wrote:I'm content with Notre Dame never participating in another Big East game. They've made their choice and so have we.

Amen

+1 Notre Dame only cares about Notre Dame. In a way, Miami was allowed to do the same thing by keeping their baseball team out of the Big East. Screw them both, they just used the Big East. What's worse is that they were allowed to.