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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4250887, member: 1145"]
Then Notre Dame, the University, needs to step up big time to make certain that semi-pro does not happen. ND cannot do that alone, obviously, and that alone should explain to the idiot fans who worship football independence that no man and no university ever can be an island.

Creating a 3rd division within D1 (and my best guess is that such a new football division would include basketball and perhaps baseball) is one thing; sitting by while the SEC and BT (and SC and Oregon and a few others) create a semi-pro league will be bad for almost everyone and everything save the few who get richer from that semi-pro football.

Those who want to create a semi-pro football league will use endless enticements to get not merely schools like Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, VT, Ok St, Kansas, Washington, UCLA, etc. to go along, but their top focus will be to woo ND. The reality is that the larger the number of schools that are willing to go semi-pro, the greater will be the push to get others on board. ND football people are not going to be anything close to satisfied if they are left playing service academies, Northwestern, Vandy, Wake, BC, SMU, Rice, Tulane, and the MAC.

I see Swarbrick as the kind of power-loving, money-hungry lawyer more than willing to make dirty deals in dark rooms to place ND in the BT and secure it the biggest paychecks.
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