Swarbrick, on Dan Patrick's show on Wednesday, demurred when Patrick used the word "greed" to describe what's behind all of the realignment. This was his quote:
“So I’m not terribly comfortable with the description of it as greed, but it is all about money.”
Tell me, sir, what is the difference?
Swarbrick is a perfect example of slimy lawyer who would make any deal that would benefit him and hi client, as long as he thought he might not get caught. There is nothing he wouldn't do to achieve the goals of his client and himself. And the is the resin that he has played this game very well for a brief spell. The catch is that Swarbrick and ND are every bit as suicidally naive as the Pac was. The Pac naïveté was always based open the Rose Bow, and on the long partnership with the BT. So Pac people always, right to the very last second, believed the Pac was safe.
The ND naïveté is faith in what ND was through the 1970s and briefly recovered somewhat under Holtz, but is dying all over the country as church membership and, more important, strong church identity die on the vine:
THE university for football for the nation's largest religious group. That alone could hold little ND up for decades, and what did the holding up is now dying very quickly. It cannot be made up by new waves of Third World Catholics. So ND thinks it is immune to the destructions it sits by and watches, and ND soon will find out that it is actually, to the Globalist corporations that finance all this, just another small private school that does even have the government of a small state that will back it to the hilt because that is in the state's best interests.
ND will be forced into the BT at some point, un less the ACC survives at full strength. Right the ND army of online posters clearly have talking pints that are the Swarbrick pipe dream: that ND is above the fray and that ND always is bets served when another conference no longer has power to 'force' ND to do anything, so ND is actually helped if the ACC is gutted of football power, because then the ACC will
NEED ND so badly that ND, without being a member of ACC football, will order the ACC around all the time. Because then th4e ACC would be at the mercy of ND, which just wants to remain independent. So if ND wants the ACC to add Villanova because ND sees that as good for ND basketball and non-revenue sports, the ACC will do that ASAP. All in the name of ND's sacred independence. ND thus will have the best of every possible world and even get back to ruling CFB.
But that aint ever gonna have a single shot from the depthsof Hell to work. The staring reason is that ACC football losing its largest two fan abeam and thus also almost certainly other of its valuable schools (UNC, UVA, VT, NCSu, Miami) will provide ND with so poor a slate of games that
MUST play a bunch of SEC and or BT teams every year just ton have foes worthy of preparing for a playoff.
And more to the end game, once there are just 2 Major/Power conferences, the SEC and BT will agree that the playoff over which they have Total control will take only schools from only leagues. At that second, ND's options are gone forever. Save from among 3 picks: join BT, join SEC, or choose to remain independent football in the Tier Two of CFB. That is the end game in terms of ND, and it can be avoided only if ND goes full football in the ACC to make that the ACC remains a Major/Power conference.
And to see how suicidal ND is, the fools either are blinkered to the fact that Cal and such added to the ACC will only rev up FSU's motors to leave, or else they actually want that so ND can control what's left of a greatly reduced ACC, leaving the remainders to beg from ND and bless ND for helping.
ND's massive comeuppance to its bottomless self-absorption is fast approaching, and neither the BT nor the SEC will ever have any mercy for an ND they have maneuvered onto their spider web. Ton them, ND is just another pawn they intend to grab to use to wage war against the other for final, total control.
