When could Tech play Notre Dame?
Some quick Notre Dame scheduling notes:
Notre Dame will play five ACC opponents a year and will rotate through the league. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said the plan is to start in 2014. The school will give the ACC five open dates and the league will fill the dates as part of its formation of the league schedule.
The tentative plan is to have Notre Dame play each school every three years, home and road.
In 2014, Tech is scheduled to play Wofford, at Tulane and at Georgia out of conference. In 2015, there are three home games with Georgia Southern, Tulane and Georgia. In 2016, Tech has Vanderbilt at home, Georgia on the road and an open date.
Contracts with schools can always be bought out or pushed back.
This puts a slight crimp into Tech’s scheduling philosophy of scheduling one FCS opponent and one FBS opponent from a non-automatic qualifier conference, although the 2016 schedule, for instance, already goes against that strategy.
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Alabama Jack
September 13th, 2012
9:10 am
Good point Ray Gunkel. Maybe we can use this to get our home and home schedules straightened out.
RM
September 13th, 2012
10:07 am
Roodie was off sides!
Grinch
September 13th, 2012
10:16 am
NBC is probably going to drop the contract when it’s time for renewal. I can’t imagine whey they would want to keep it unless they negotiated a much less payout to ND. If NBC were smart, they would go for a deal with one of the conferences (provided ESPN and CBS doesn’t have all of them locked up by then). ND will them be forced to join the ACC in football. The writing is on the wall.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 13th, 2012
10:31 am
The first “fish game” was in 1967 when Parseghian was coach at ND. I was there and thought it was funny as hell to see all the fish coming out of the student section. Unfortunately, ND beat Tech 38-3
gtfan1951
September 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Drop UGA!!!
Steveo
September 13th, 2012
11:03 am
Who cares….Notre Dame has not been relevant in college football since the 80’s….just adding another mediocre team into the mediocre ACC…
Steveo
September 13th, 2012
11:05 am
What gtfan1951….want to drop that auotmatic loss from your scedule…maybe you Techies aren’t so dumb after all….lol
Steveo
September 13th, 2012
11:09 am
Wait…..Jimmy Carter was a Tech grad……nuff said!!
damngooddawg
September 13th, 2012
11:12 am
Hope Tech gets a chance at ND asap. My question is, why did the ACC fall all over themselves accepting this deal. What’s the big deal about ND? They haven’t been relevant for years. Yet everyone seems to fawn over them and treat them with deference. The ACC should have said, “If you want in, we’ll consider letting you in. But it’s all or nothing”.
damngooddawg
September 13th, 2012
11:15 am
Notre Dame would be “middle of the pack” in ACC football, in my opinion.
Left Coast Dawg
September 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
@Ken – “respectully contribute to the dialogue”?? When did the AJC blogs become a place of respect? I thought the articles were posted to generate the continuous blabbering of idiots? Okie’s comments didn’t seem too out of the ordinary for what we normally see on these AJC blogs. Man, I’ve had my morning dose of “WOW”.
Left Coast Dawg
September 13th, 2012
12:28 pm
Notre Dame was smart not to include football in the deal. This way they don’t have to worry about not winning the ACC title and looking any more inferior to a Mid-Major conference.
GTfan2012
September 13th, 2012
1:46 pm
Look I get it… nobody is seriously claiming that the ACC is the best football conference in the land. But I think a case can be made that it is one of the if not the the best overall athletic conference for true student athletes. Anyway, the ACC was effectively dead and buried as a conference six months ago, and NO CONFERENCE HAS IMPROVED ITS FORTUNES AS MUCH IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS AS THE ACC!!! Today, there is effectively 0% chance of defecting members (the $50 million break up fee is as big as the ND announcement), the conference has a new nationally prominent member for most sports (and essentially a partial member in football), a major bowl tie in, the opportunity to renegotiate its TV deal with some leverage, and the ACC has a solidified seat at the table of the post season landscape in college football.
No one predicted this would be the case six months ago.
Buzzzed
September 13th, 2012
2:27 pm
Ken, can you do a story on the fish games. I remember my dad (Irish Catholic) telling me about that when I was a kid (born in 75). We rooted for ND at the time.
Buzzzed
September 13th, 2012
2:28 pm
Bring back the fish ;^)
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September 16th, 2012
11:39 am
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