Who is anyone? Other conferences? But we did. Scoreboard. No one else did. "Could have" doesn't pay the bills. In a time when AD's are bleeding out. Imagine the ACC schedules they just dropped without ND. Would have taken a lot of luster off the whole endeavor (barf).
Instead we will be...
Disagree. You know how much ND had to pay for this? We had the last car on the lot and we made them pay Ferrari prices for a Toyota. They had to throw their whole f'ing NBC deal into the kitty. I'm amazed.
DING DING DING!
Biggest takeaway from this. In a time where programs are all going underwater, the ACC just got Notre Dame's NBC revenue put into the pot.
Yeah, ND gets to lease the ACC for a year to build a schedule, but we squeezed them hard.