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"I had a lot of people shouting across the street to me to stay independent and it was interesting, but correspondences ran both ways," Swarbrick said of the feedback he received from ND alumni and students about what the school's athletic future should look like. .... Yes, the Big East footprint pulls in 40 percent of the U.S. population, but much of that 40 percent is indifferent to college football, and more to the point, Big East football. The Big Ten had the Nos. ...
Many factors remained uncertain, but several issues could not have been clearer. Firstly, the money collegiate football could command in its immediate future promised to dwarf past revenue. Secondly, through conference-based contracts ... Money might make the Big Ten move at any moment in any one of a number of directions. After that everyone else would have to move as well. Of course, Notre Dame didn't want to move. NBC's relationship with ND football began in February ...
Notre Dame isn't going anywhere soon. They know the Big 10 wants them badly. That is a nice place to be in negotiations. No one is going to force ND's hand, and let's be real ? that's just the way they like things. ... Even then, would the college football world deliberately shut out it's biggest money maker? The issue with the schedule is somewhat worrisome, particularly if there is more expansion of the big conferences, but I think Swarbrick has done a great job of ...
What you need to know ... what's happening in college football. ... Of course, athletic director Jack Swarbrick also said that a seismic change would force the Irish to revisit their position. It's unclear if Holtz thinks ND should say yes to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany while the school still has options (meaning now) or wait until the superconferences are essentially in place. "I think that for the first time, Notre Dame ought to consider joining the Big Ten," Holtz ...
People want to come to ND because we have a national presence. If we move to the Big Ten, we basically become Northwestern 2.0. We have no in-state recruiting base, so we'd be going into Michigan/Ohio State/Penn State's territory to go ...
The next first volley will be the Big Ten offer to Rutgers and Pitt, and then life gets interesting for Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick. Without Rutgers and Pitt, the eight-team Big East football effort dies. That leaves Syracuse, Louisville, .... It's to move into as conference with a chance to compete at the highest level. An eight-team league with ECU and USF would have no chance at all to survive. If ND goes to a conference, it will be the Big Ten. ...
The threat was that they would be left out in the cold without a conference home (CB kept reporting that Notre Dame could finish off the Big 10 expansion and leave Nebraska in the cold while Baylor might take Colorado's spot in the ...... Delaney did not want to be seen as destroying a conference and the fabric of college football ? it's not in his DNA. If the entire landscape had shifted without his direct involvement, then he would have made the move to take Rutgers and ...
I think many college football fans questioned the validity or workability of 16-team super conferences and were hesitant to really embrace the grand scheme of the proposed 21st Century realignment. ... They told us Missouri was going to bring the St. Louis/Kansas City market, Rutgers was going to bring the ever attractive New York market and it was all going to be finished off with the Big Ten finally adding (or forcing) the national brand of Notre Dame into the fold. ...
June 5th, 2010 Big 12 changes could leave out forgotten 4LAWRENCE, Kan. ? The Big 12 shuffle has been filled with almost-hourly twists and turns, with all sorts of scenarios of teams on the move. ... March 9th, 2010 Swarbrick: Expansion could force ND into moveNEW YORK ? Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence. ...
A year after switching to video as a cost-saving move for the league's annual football media day, 11 of Conference USA's 12 coaches gathered Sunday in Memphis to preview the upcoming season. ... March 9th, 2010 Swarbrick: Expansion could force ND into moveNEW YORK ? Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence. ...