Waiting game..eventually someone has to force ND

That...and it is an easy win to pad their schedule (or at least supposed to be)

Navy doesn't want ND at Annapolis because it makes far greater money playing them elsewhere. NMCM Stadium is very decent but smaller than the Rent and ND is a money game for the program.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Navy needed officers during the 2nd World War & Annapolis was overwhelmed with applicants. Those that they turned away, they referred to Notre Dame.

My source who has been 100% accurate says that the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University have both put out to bid and selected an agency for a new, dual marketing plan that does not mention the Big East. Coincidence? Maybe. Now it could be conference realignment related, as it's as good as time as ever to do it. Since everyone is skeptical of these mercurial sources, I'm going to just going to throw caution to the wind and tell you his name is Beckett. Sam Beckett. And the ad agency is the Estragon and Vladimir Group.
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Ive heard of them. I believe they are a subsidiary of the Godot Adverising agency which ND uses. One day.... One day!

Is this a joint venture of UConn and RU? If they're waging an ad campaign that blatantly does not mention the Big East, wouldn't that have to be a very secretive ad campaign, which is a bit counterintuitive?

Oh brother.

You're crazy, nuts, Pozzo, out of yer mind.

If we were to get in the ACC, would they put UConn in the Atlantic Division with Syracuse and BC and put Rutgers in the Coastal Division with Pitt, Duke and UNC or would they do a North and South if they went to 16 teams? Man I can't wait to get out of the Big East.

If this is for real, and that's a big if, then it would be obvious that RU and UConn were having a portfolio prepared explaining the benefits (and I suspect the north and south of the NY market will figure prominently) of bringing both schools to either the ACC or B1G. There is a logic, if a conference thinks that it can capture the NY market, no one team can do it. Notre Dame is the leading team in NY but beyond that, to get real share of NY eyeballs, you would need both RU and UConn.

Now I would never claim to be the best read or most intelligent guy on the planet, but some of you make me seem almost brilliant. Or maybe there is some value to having a useless Liberal Arts degree after all since my course work exposed me to some things which continue to give me a clue. Please use the interweb. Google the name of the firm and then maybe you will get it.

Coming back to nonfiction for a moment, the article has made quite a splash on twitter. As is customary, met with derision.

Apparently there does exist some source credible enough to fool "real" journalists. If you recall Jon Wilner wrote the same thing over the holidays. No equivocation, hedging, just that ACC is going to 16 preferably with ND.

Of course, like conception and Johnny Carson, timing is everything. A year? Decade? With so much flux with the BCS and bowls, and ND's tenacity to independence, what would be the catalyst?