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Message: [QUOTE="sufan, post: 354758, member: 262"] [URL='http://www.und.com/genrel/091212aad.html']"An Interview with Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick"[/URL] -football: "We are going to be getting the schedule for 2014" - "I would say it got pretty earnest about the end of July, probably mid, third week in July or so, where it came to us in a different light." - "our independence is served because we do have our own media arrangement to highlight the program and send those powerful messages about the University, in the what would you fight for spots that we show that. Our independence is served because we will be all around the country and we can do that. Our independence is served because we can preserve rivalries." - "Stanford and USC rivalries will be retained, and of course our history is Navy is unique. And after that, we are going to work to maintain as many of our traditional games as we can." - "[B]what role did the difficulty of scheduling games play in this negotiation?[/B] [URL='http://syracusefan.com/genrel/swarbrick_jack00.html'][B][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Jack Swarbrick[/COLOR][/U][/B][/URL][B]:[/B] None at all." - "[B]Having entry to those Bowl games, I think this year and next year, how important was that to the school?[/B] [URL='http://syracusefan.com/genrel/swarbrick_jack00.html'][B][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Jack Swarbrick[/COLOR][/U][/B][/URL][B]:[/B] Critical. We had to solve the challenge of what post season football would be for us below the BCS level." "We needed a soup to nuts solution for post season and we have achieved it." - "Most significantly, I think, the pairing of this development with the other announcement the ACC made about their withdrawal, I think gives us a real chance that we are going to have a period ahead of us now in college athletics which is going to be pretty stable." - "This is going to be our home. We fully plan to maintain football independence. I don't see that changing. But if it ever did, the ACC is our home and we would like to them to provide a solution." - "notwithstanding my view of all of the great assets of the ACC, football independence was important to us." [/QUOTE]

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