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Anyone know which administrator is attending in lieu of our AD?
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What do we think? Is this good or bad? Someone translate for me, please.
Its a good thing, probably not as much now as most kids have early enrolled anyways but it gives coaches more time and access to players because right now they arent really "supposed" to be coaching them..
Probably helps more with kids coming off injuries and who missed spring like a Beck last year or something.. college really limits actual practice and development time so it can only help in offseason.
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Today from Brett McMurphy at On3/Rivals:
Notre Dame’s not-all-in relationship with the ACC has mostly worked out, although privately, there is a large contingent at ACC schools that resent the Golden Domers. In December, that was magnified when the Irish became the first 10-win team to opt out of a bowl game after Notre Dame didn’t receive a playoff bid.
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At this week’s ACC spring meetings at the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, “pathetic,” “100 percent arrogance” and “crybabies” were just a few of the responses from the league’s athletic directors and coaches that spoke with On3 about Notre Dame.
While the bowl snub impacted the ACC’s bowl lineup more than the schools directly, it continued an ACC/Notre Dame narrative that, quite frankly, a lot of folks at ACC schools are sick and tired of.
“There’s a very widespread perception that we’re all getting used,” an ACC athletic director told On3. “And we’re sick of it. If an ACC team did that, it would have been fined. It’s a bad situation creating bad outcomes for organizations that need each other.”
Notre Dame was not fined. Technically, there isn’t a specific ACC by-law that addresses bowl opt outs. However, there wasn’t a by-law in the Big 12 either. And that didn’t stop the Big 12 from fining Iowa State and Kansas State $500,000 each for opting out of bowl games last year.
Two years ago, the Sun Belt fined Marshall $100,000 for opting out of its bowl game. All three teams had coaching changes that impacted their rosters. Every program that has opted out of a bowl game, except for COVID issues, has been fined – except Notre Dame.
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On Monday evening from Amelia Island, Bevacqua told On3 the Irish’s relationship with the ACC is “incredibly strong.”
“I mean, (ACC commissioner) Jimmy (Phillips) and I have such a wonderful relationship,” Bevecqua said. “We cleared the air back in December and I think it’s as strong or stronger than it’s ever been. I really do.
“We felt great. Jimmy and I had a great conversation right before Christmas. Talked through a lot and Jimmy and I talk very consistently.”
Bevecqua didn’t back down from his “permanent damage” response from December.
“No, it wasn’t (said) in the heat at the moment,” he said Monday. “But all I would say is we’re in good position.”
Has the ACC/Notre Dame partnership run its course? The ACC saved the Irish’s season in 2020, allowing Notre Dame to compete as an ACC member when COVID-19 wreaked havoc with the college football season. Whether they will admit it or not, the ACC needs Notre Dame more than the Irish need the ACC.
With so many uncertainties surrounding college athletics, the only certainty is the ACC schools will always resent Notre Dame and the ACC/Notre Dame partnership won’t last forever. And when it ends – and it will – it’s going to end badly.
ACC athletic directors call out Notre Dame's special treatment: 'We're all getting used'
“Notre Dame,” an industry source told On3, “is the guy that walks in the house, opens the fridge, eats all the food, then (screws) the wife, kicks the dog, doesn’t pay the mortgage and walks out without any skin in the game.”Notre Dame’s not-all-in relationship with the ACC has mostly worked out, although privately, there is a large contingent at ACC schools that resent the Golden Domers. In December, that was magnified when the Irish became the first 10-win team to opt out of a bowl game after Notre Dame didn’t receive a playoff bid.
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At this week’s ACC spring meetings at the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, “pathetic,” “100 percent arrogance” and “crybabies” were just a few of the responses from the league’s athletic directors and coaches that spoke with On3 about Notre Dame.
While the bowl snub impacted the ACC’s bowl lineup more than the schools directly, it continued an ACC/Notre Dame narrative that, quite frankly, a lot of folks at ACC schools are sick and tired of.
“There’s a very widespread perception that we’re all getting used,” an ACC athletic director told On3. “And we’re sick of it. If an ACC team did that, it would have been fined. It’s a bad situation creating bad outcomes for organizations that need each other.”
Notre Dame was not fined. Technically, there isn’t a specific ACC by-law that addresses bowl opt outs. However, there wasn’t a by-law in the Big 12 either. And that didn’t stop the Big 12 from fining Iowa State and Kansas State $500,000 each for opting out of bowl games last year.
Two years ago, the Sun Belt fined Marshall $100,000 for opting out of its bowl game. All three teams had coaching changes that impacted their rosters. Every program that has opted out of a bowl game, except for COVID issues, has been fined – except Notre Dame.
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On Monday evening from Amelia Island, Bevacqua told On3 the Irish’s relationship with the ACC is “incredibly strong.”
“I mean, (ACC commissioner) Jimmy (Phillips) and I have such a wonderful relationship,” Bevecqua said. “We cleared the air back in December and I think it’s as strong or stronger than it’s ever been. I really do.
“We felt great. Jimmy and I had a great conversation right before Christmas. Talked through a lot and Jimmy and I talk very consistently.”
Bevecqua didn’t back down from his “permanent damage” response from December.
“No, it wasn’t (said) in the heat at the moment,” he said Monday. “But all I would say is we’re in good position.”
Has the ACC/Notre Dame partnership run its course? The ACC saved the Irish’s season in 2020, allowing Notre Dame to compete as an ACC member when COVID-19 wreaked havoc with the college football season. Whether they will admit it or not, the ACC needs Notre Dame more than the Irish need the ACC.
With so many uncertainties surrounding college athletics, the only certainty is the ACC schools will always resent Notre Dame and the ACC/Notre Dame partnership won’t last forever. And when it ends – and it will – it’s going to end badly.