Those three entities in the title are listed in descending order of importance in this matter, of course.
As the Big East has already lost two of its football-playing schools and could lose three more if the Big Ten and ACC help themselves, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have found themselves with a tenuous home for their Olympic sports.
While the Irish remain a football independent, it would be hard to imagine them choosing to leave their basketball in a dilapidated conference with few other nationally branded institutions and no shot at a top media deal -- not to mention one that could soon be upstaged in its own home. Either way, Notre Dame remains the most-prized item on the market for the Big Ten, Big 12, Big East and ACC.
So when Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick comments on conference realignment, it's important:
I don't understand it. How do you vote as a collegiate president on something that has the potential to provide some benefit for your institution and the conference you're affiliated with but has a very negative consequence for a host of other members of the academy, as presidents like to call it?
Also, "a congressman from a state with a university that could be harmed by realignment" is making noise about using the federal government to force other schools to play sports with a school his constituents happen to favor. And NCAA president Mark Emmert wants everybody to settle down.
For more, head to Notre Dame blog One Foot Down.
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now i'm no big city lawyer
(insertchickenjpeg) but I don’t see how conferences stealing members from one another in an effort to compete for tv deals is an anti-trust issue. Common sense wise, it seems like the exact opposite of a trust. It’s anarchic capitalism.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 19, 2011 9:20 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
and this is in reference to the congressman's quotes
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 19, 2011 9:22 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
In order of relevance
Close to zero. Zero. And less than zero.
p/k/a Blujay
by Psikik1 on Sep 19, 2011 12:28 PM EDT reply actions
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