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Message: [QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1054399, member: 2043"] You sound like Frank the Tank here. What you are suggesting is consistent with his opinions in his blog. As far as I'm concerned Notre Dame can sit in this configuration with the ACC for as long as they want. What I don't want is the downside of this 8 games with 2 divisions of 7 schools and 1 crossover scheduling problem where we have to go many years without playing the schools in the other division. I don't want the cause of this to be because Notre Dame is stuck in this configuration with the ACC, and we can't get to 16 for better scheduling. The ACC could add team 16 from UConn or Cincinnati as well as a football only like Navy or BYU to take Notre Dame's spot, and the league could get to 16 and get beyond this issue. Notre Dame could stay in this scheduling contract for forever, and the football only could be on a scheduling contract to coincide. I know this is Big East like, but it fixes a scheduling issue. As for the SEC vs B1G, the demographics of the country are going to increasingly tilt toward the SEC for football and away from the Big Ten. The ACC will also benefit from the same demographics. With the ACC and the SEC working together to protect each other from the Big Ten makes any worries about the Big Ten diminish over time. The Big Ten has a tremendous amount of work to prop up its two recent additions even with cable boxes. The recent ACC additions have come in and hit the ground running without much work at all. I can't speak for Syracuse, Pittsburgh, or Notre Dame. But I don't have the impression that any of them think they are in a foreign league. There will be nostalgic laments by some Notre Dame fans about diminished scheduling of Midwestern Big Ten rivals in football. There is a thread about it on NDNation right now. Notre Dame has little history playing schools in Virginia and the Carolinas. Notre Dame does have history with BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Miami, Georgia Tech, and Florida State though. Hopefully that will be enough to tide them over while the rest of us grow on them. I don't think Notre Dame's other sports have missed a beat in transitioning from the Big East to the ACC. [/QUOTE]

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