Another issue for ND?

[longtimefan]

Say what you want, but the BE braintrust is on to something.

If you remove the word "to", I totally agree with the statement.

 

[longtimefan]

Is Scott implying that the Pac-12 will move to 11 conference games, plus an annual Big 10 opponent? Or 9 & 3, with one of the Big 10 games being with a permanent crossover opponent?

No. The reference to a full 12-game schedule refers to 12 (PAC-12) vs 12 (Big 10).

 

[longtimefan]

1. The Big Ten and Pac-12 were not "reacting" to the Big East. I sincerely doubt either of those conferences spend more than 5 minutes a month thinking about the Big East.

2. My point about any affect on ND being at best an unintended consequence is completely supported by the Big Ten not moving to 9 conference games.

"Unintended"? Probably.

Serendipitous? Absolutely.

 

[arbitragegls]

...please in no way indicate BE brain trust...it is made up of some of the least forward thinkng and strategic professionals I have ever come across...any thing good that goes the BE way is totally by accident...

 

[KaiserUEO]

the bigleast braintrust went national in a last ditch effort to save their useless conference.

o-pa, are you really trying to tell us that the city of san diego is all excited now that the rutgers-uconn game will be on their televisions at 9am on a saturday?? and based on this, the pac12 and b1g expanded on their partnership (rose bowl)???

thats crazy talk.

if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound??

the tree is the bigleast.

nobody cares about it, or what it does.

having a 'national brand and or market' has likely been everyones goal.

starting with athens and sparta.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

San Diego doesn't really care about college sports other than USC football, that is about it. San Diesgo is USC territory. It's like Lemoyne joining the Patriot league for basketball, would anyone in Syracuse really care? No, they won't nor should they. My Mom and stepfather are retired out there, I have been out there several times during football season, it's Chargers, USC and Pac 12. That is all.

 

[shantydaze]

This is just another move by the Pac and B1G to decouple themselves from ESPN. Not being anywhere near the ACC footprint, my first hope would be for the ACC to start its own network. As ESPN loses content, however, it may feel the need to throw more and more money at the ACC to stop it from starting a network.

 

[Cusefan95]

Why doesn't the Big 10 just pressure Purdue and Michigan to just remove ND from their future schedules? If this is really part of the plan, wouldn't those 2 schools see through it? Just tell those schools you're either with us or against us. I would have added Michigan State but it looks like they haven't finalized an extension to that series after the 2013 game.

That's part of why the idea this pressures Notre Dame even a little bit is questionable to me - what's good for "the Big Ten" isn't nessesarily best for individual members like Purdue or Michigan. I have a co-worker that has Michigan season tickets that says that game is always the biggest game on the home slate when ND plays at the Big House, to the point that they have an insane contract that runs through something like 2040. Purdue can't sell out their stadium and leveraged the Notre Dame game to sell tickets to other games (with packages similar to what Syracuse has done recently).

If conferences want to pressure Notre Dame, they need to do it in a more definitive way than this, because individual schools are still going to schedule ND because it's in their own financial interest to do so. The only way this works if if the schedule out every game between the Big Ten/PAC-12 so there are absolutely no openings for schools to schedule anyone else - but I don't think that's what this means.