Apparently, the Big Ten has taken an old saying — you know, “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, FU. Now beg” — very deeply to heart.
Just one day after Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick seemingly opened the door just a wee bit for the Irish to be a part of an expanded Big Ten, a report has emerged that the conference is still feeling the sting from being jilted by the school years ago.
The Chicago Tribune, citing a source within the Big Ten, is reporting that, given how the conference was snubbed last decade by the Golden Domers, “the only way they will be offered is if they first accept. The Big Ten went down that road and got burned. Fool me once, fool me twice.”
That would roughly translate into the Big Ten not wanting to be blue-balled by the Irish yet again.
If the Tribune‘s source is indeed correct, the conference’s stance makes complete sense. They simply can’t chase after Notre Dame yet again without some type of guarantee that a happy ending will be the end result of the pursuit.
Then again, we get the feeling that all of this bluster would become meaningless the second the Irish batted it’s green eyes at the conference.
Can ND make more money w/the Big Ten or as an independent? The answer to that question will answer all the other questions about them joining the Big Ten.
Plus, they haven’t been good for some time. The Big Ten already has one has been (UM) in the conference. “We’ve already got a George.”
Does the Big 10 not remember turning down Notre Dame all those years ago?
Who cares what happened in the 30s. No one that cares about football today was old enough to remember this snubbing.
The Irish can more than double thier revenue just on TV money alone if they jumped to the Big 10.
The Big Ten Network is the flagship for all conferences to follow. If ND goes Big 10 they only add to the networks fanbase, which equals even more money per team regardless of record. ND wouldnt lose anything from making the switch. People will argue that the regional subscribers will remain the same but ND has a nationwide following that was covered my NBC. If they go Big 10, the BTN subscribers would multiply easily.
Then you throw in Texas whose pretty much going to carry the entire state’s fanbase into the BTN.
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May 16th 1936, I still haven’t recovered.
I think what Observer1 meant to say was that people who are complete morons like himself and are unable to comprehend that a sport as rich in traditions as college football contains programs with loooong memories are probably not smart enough to understand pudgalvin’s point.
When you’ve been playing football for more than a century and a quarter the 30s ain’t so ancient.
Further, the histories of these schools is what makes this game great. Its where the intense rivalries are born.
If one is too stupid or lazy or appreciate the past of any great American subject, then we truly are turning into an Idiocracy.
The Big 10 has every right to be pissed at ND. However, this pissing match started a long time ago and clearly will keep this union from ever happening. This, in turn, makes the bitter rivalries ND has with Big 10 schools in football that more ugly. Which is freakin’ awesome!
Go Irish!
eff the big ten, ND should go to the big east if the bcs is going to screw them!
I say f’ em – ND still living on stale clout. Off the field there’s plenty (of money) to look at. On the field they’d be even more of a laughingstock – you can pencil in annual losses to PSU, OSU, Wisc, certain trouble w/ Purdue, MSU, and Iowa.
I guess Michigan might even frustrate them too.
Keep your NBC deal and free BCS pass.
There’s more money and less embarrassment for Notre Dame if they join the Big Ten. They can cancel the annual thrashing at the hands of USC, and replace that game with a showdown versus Northwestern or Illinois in Chicago. It’ll also help with recruiting, and guarantee the Irish a better shot at a bowl game (easier schedule means more bowls, and a better shot at getting recruits). The Big 10 typically gets two schools in the BCS too, so losing that automatic bid would be a lot less tragic.
Texas joining the Big 10 just isn’t going to happen. It’s going to be Mizzou, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Nebraska, or Notre Dame, and probably a combination of those three.
screw dame as soon as the contracts are up with the teams they play in the big ten the conference should ban their schools from playing them. they wanna play the big 10 then join the conference!
Here’s the headline:
Notre Dame to Join Big 10 in 2019..
Details will follow (look for a scoop soon)
And even if they don’t join the Big 10 I’m sure the expanded Big East (more on this later) would be happy to have them. I believe they are already a member of the Big East in every other sport. Football really shouldn’t be any different..
F–K the little 10. They’re a JOKE conference anyway. The SEC has stomped all over them and USC mauled the SUCKEYES. N.D. dosen’t need them or any other conference.
GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I seem to remember a Forbes article published last spring the Notre Dame generated over 230 million dollars annually from football alone. The NBC contract is apparently a drop in the bucket compare to tickets, apparel, donations, etc…..The only issue I can see is that they need to go back to the home and away give and take with other teams rather than their current set up. That would alleviate the current disappointing schedule that they have this year, for example.
If one reads the history of ND football from the get-go they were snubbed by every existing conference therefore had to “go on the road” to get games. This generated the nation wide “subway alumni” that the Irish currently enjoy to this day. Let’s face it; they are not relevant currently, however I believe that will change under Kelly and the conference joining talk will die down, as always. GO IRISH!!