Waiting game..eventually someone has to force ND

Discussion in 'Conference Realignment Board' started by Blue whale, Feb 14, 2012.



  1. UConnSportsGuy Popular Poster

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    That...and it is an easy win to pad their schedule (or at least supposed to be):)
  2. uc1974 Popular Poster

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    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.
  3. coachcap Popular Poster

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    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.
  4. Rumrunner Popular Poster

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    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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  5. SAMCRO Popular Poster

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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!
  6. brasssbonanzaa Popular Poster

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    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?
  7. Hoophound Popular Poster

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    Oh brother.
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  8. upstater Popular Poster

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    You're crazy, nuts, Pozzo, out of yer mind.
  9. Blue whale Used Member

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    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.
  10. HuskyHawk Popular Poster

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    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.
  11. mets1090 Popular Poster

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    Listen, I'm just a boy that you've never seen before, but I'm telling you ND does nothing. They will do nothing to impact conference realignment.
  12. 06029 Popular Poster

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    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.
  13. Rumrunner Popular Poster

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    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?
  14. zls44 Popular Poster

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    What a thread! Folks are throwing HAYMAKERS with the quality of these references.
  15. Pudge Popular Poster

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    Look ... some laughed a few months ago ... I stated that WE should form a bilateral agreement with Rutgers (like BYU's; maybe somewhat like Texas) & have a "Network". Work with existing SNY or YES or NESN & just download all kind of sports in the Metro NY. Content for the heavy eyeballs. There is NO way that BC 0r SU has the fans NOR the reach that our combined schools could have. We are nowhere near our potential in sports marketing.

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