Notre Dame Joe

Dang I misread that as CBS. 1. I want ND on CBS and 2. it would mean that Dodd of CBS was reporting on a rumor about CBS.

THere will be tension in the middle east.

You have to protect that Hoosier rivalry with IU. For competitive balance in your next conference iteration, what do you think of a Red/Maroon division vs other colors? SC vs UCLA Ohio State vs Mich Wisc vs MSU NU vs PSU Minn vs Iowa IU vs NW Rutgers vs Ill Maryland vs Purdue

That and these conference realignment solitaire hypotheticals always put us in the dumbest possible pod. This month I have seen us grouped with Oregon and Virginia.

"creative scheduling" Does that mean any game could count as a conference game? That would entice ND to consider joining.

Yes. As bad as it looked in 2010 I can see that staying in the Big12 would have been a death wish. UT is not even in the SEC yet. But on the Texas fans' site they have been talking, for a year, about how great the SEC will be once they cull the herd of lesser programs.

I could live with CBS taking over ND home games. They always had the better product and my favorite games to watch on TV was when ND played @Navy.

I don't know if NBC even wants to compete in the sports market. On their networks I only see SNF and bicycle racing.

Savvy Jack Swarbrick is bidding up the contract ala bridge the card game. Rumors say that SC let him know what they were planning before it went public. Knowing that ND can walk into the conference at any time give him a lot of leverage with other parties.

I was reading about some game I think it was Kansas first Nebraska. The writer said "in one way it was like the games of old with running backs charging through big gaping holes.". I think your Huskers scored 40 points and lost. " and, hey when is the NBC contract up for renewal?"

I think they were unvacated. and that Savvy Jack Swarbrick knows what is coming.

Maybe Disneyspn decides it would be better to own the entire upper echelon of college football than to pay a share to NC State for the long term. I smell 'vacated' wins.

The big schools are trying to form an NFL for college. Because of American demography the real NFL has some divisions that make no geographic sense. I am sure the contract says it is void if X number of schools vote to void it, or blow up the conference altogether. Would ESPN be happy to stop paying Wake Forest but overpay for the NFL of college? I don't know but they have been subsidizing every move in that direction.

Well, financially means the highest sports media payout right? I guess the the most cents come from the SEC or your conference.

Ya never know. TCU to the PAC used to be a parody of CR chatter. Now it's very plausible. also I think ND is plotting something, it's the only explanation for the media blackout. Gun to my head I would say it's joining the ACC in full.

Only if you purchase the sports tier from the Phoenix crap cable co. I thought it was inciteful that the PAC could not get basic carriage in its 2nd largest media market.

Not in Phoenix either although we have a crap cable co.

One of the minor benefits far down the trough is that I have always wanted to see the Ds run on the abortion ticket. I don't believe that a lot of the I'm pro choice people are actually motivated by a politician saying the A-word. Although I do believe they have people for that.

My sources tell me the real sources are taking today off.

I wonder if Colorado would be a good fit in the Big12

It wouldn't even make the worst 5 decisions to come out of South Bend.

Strange lack of outrage with the overturning of 5 years of precedent.

Citation needed.

It is not this or that source that worries me, it the complete silence out of South Bend.

The ones that called for the unlicensed practice of medicine?? The good thing to come out of this both for pro and con is that now the state legislatures can debate actual laws meant to govern their state. This is better than writing laws that actually legal briefs directed at SCOTUS to change precedent. Who knows, people might even learn who is their state representative.