The Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners make a move, and now all of a sudden the rest of college football goes crazy chasing dollar signs.
I pretty much agree with everything Chris has to say here, and it angers me to think that this is where we are in 2021 - the butterfly effect in real time. The Athletic’s Chris Vannini posted an excellent piece about all of this today, that I highly recommend you read.Ĭonference realignment sucks, and it’s taking away what we love about college sports. Playing Notre Dame means something, even if it’s just pure red hatred. If you don’t believe me - go look at the attendance for Notre Dame’s away games. Notre Dame is the one program that actually helped all regions. this is college football, and Notre Dame’s independence has been a part of what the sport was for so long. That irony (and a few others) is certainly on my mind. the the rivalries and bitterness that comes along with the sport.Īs a Notre Dame fan, I understand it’s strange to talk about regionalization of a sport that the Irish HAVE to be national in to compete each year. While many did state that the college game would be much different in the future, they really failed to hit the true mark - which is the destruction of the regionalization of college football. They weren’t wrong in their takes, but omission is also a sin.
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Independents started moving towards conferences, and the Notre Dame/NBC deal really threw a bunch of gas on the changes in the way conferences function in terms of TV dollars.Īfter debasing Notre Dame as a greedy bastard, most media members ended up pushing these “TV dollars are king” narrative right along as the SWC dissolved, as the Big 12 sprang up, and the Big 10 being the first conference to use integers.
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Rivalry trophies are intrinsically a college football thing, and speak to the nature of the sport - which is full of stuff that doesn’t make any sense, other than it’s what we’ve been doing for 100 years.Īnd then the 1990’s came along and college sports changed forever. What can I say? I friggin’ love the damn things and what they represent. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I am the only Notre Dame media personality that gives these pieces of hardware their respective share of article space, social media posts, and podcast minutes. Most of you already know my deep affinity for the rivalry trophies that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have with a handful of schools.
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