I mean I'm annoyed with the whole thing , but the post I quoted was specific to Bama.
At least thr G5 have some contract clauses , I get wanted to avoid anti trust.
Programs without coaches were ripe for the fsu treatment this year of any year
Strength of Schedule was reduced to Wins/Losses sorted by Wins and Teams who have most recently lost - and absolutely nothing more nuanced or explainable
our resident @notre dame joe doesn't realize he's barking up the wrong tree
ND shouldn't have been ranked so high in general , your schedule was weak and you had * 1 good not great win *
A large number of people on this board feel like Texas's case was actually stronger than either ND or Bama, FFS these teams moved up more spots than when we embarrassed #3
The committee in general is full of idiots who couldn't rank a number line , and needs to be eliminated from the selection loop
This is my POV as well. What I saw was the ACC promoting its team. Thats literally their fiduciary duty, one of their only duties.
The fact that ND was on the other side was collateral damage, the ACC has no control over who the committee makes room for. NDs lack of position made them an easy target. Thats on the committee, not the ACC.
I think ND is attacking the only friend it has in any of this.
At this point I don't know why anyone would , I would force ND to back some level of G6 / conference champion as a massive concession .
Thats probably how we ended up with JMU and Tulane situation , they just never thought it would affect them
All of this is revealing some deep fractures in NDs position , if even the ACC is too powerful for ND to counter they have serious problems. The ACC is one FSU from falling apart at the seams, meanwhile the SEC and BIG are sitting behind the curtains actually pulling all the strings.
I think its clear ND either needs to invest in massive organization apparatus in its AD to combat this sort of stuff, or understand the role of conference affiliation.
They've relied on "We're ND" so long, that a single shot against them is causing Chernobyl level meltdown
maybe all of them, a&m vs miami and ou vs bama are the only possible ones that could be larger but are pretty large media draws in general
oregon vs jmu and ole miss vs tulane is probably going to piss off some execs