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Friday, October 5, 2012
Big East Commish: Notre Dame Hasn’t Set Jump Date in ‘Preliminary’ Talks (Chicago Tribune)
Notre Dame may not be sure of when it will commence life in the ACC, but it indeed has broached the idea of an early departure from the Big East. Big East commissioner Mike Aresco told the Tribune on Thursday that talks with Notre Dame are “very preliminary” and not to be confused with negotiations that will spur the school’s jump to the ACC. There isn’t total clarity anyway, after a month, about when the school wants to make that jump…
Boston College Football: Al Golden a Potential Replacement for Frank Spaziani? (BC Interruption)
On Wednesday, Yahoo! Sports’ Dan Wetzel wrote a glowing piece about Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden, mentioning that Golden may be looking for a new gig at the end of the season. That said, it isn’t the only desirable place. In the coming months when Arkansas (for sure) and Tennessee (possibly) go looking for new head coaches, how would their attention not be drawn to Coral Gables?…
Al Golden, Notre Dame, the Weather and a Culture Change at Miami (The 7th Floor)
Dec. 31, 2010 was eight months before Al Golden’s first game as head coach of the Miami Hurricanes, but it was just about his first day on the job, at least publicly. That was when the Canes — “led” by interim head coach Jeff Stoutland — faced the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Sun Bowl in El Paso. Everyone knows what happened there…
ACC Teams Scoring Almost at Will This Season (Florida Times-Union)
The Atlantic Coast Conference is taking its usual nationwide beating as one of the weakest of the BCS football conferences. But the league is keeping pace with the rest of the country in one regard: offense. Two of the most effective at it, No. 3 Florida State (5-0, 2-0) and North Carolina State, (3-2, 0-1) will meet Saturday in Raleigh, N.C., (8 p.m., ESPN)…
How ACC Football Scheduling Reversal Impacts Virginia Tech, Virginia, ODU (Daily Press)
ACC athletic directors scrambled Thursday to find a fourth non-conference football game for next season and beyond, Old Dominion’s Wood Selig relaxed, waited for the calls and counted the money. Not exactly, but you get the picture. The ACC’s decision Wednesday to pare its conference schedule from nine to eight games forces its 14 programs to find an additional non-league contest for 2013 and the foreseeable future…
Terps Look to Freshmen to Help Up Front (ESPN’s ACC Blog)
Playing behind a struggling offensive line might be the closest thing to hazing a true freshman quarterback can experience. Maryland’s Perry Hills has been sacked 16 times this season, more than all but five quarterbacks in major college football, according to the Washington Times. Maryland’s coaching staff has confidence two freshmen offensive linemen can help…
Clemson Must Be Aware of the Jackets (Fox Sports Carolinas)
On paper, and given the last couple of weeks, Clemson should dismantle Georgia Tech on Saturday. The game is at Death Valley where a full house of rabid fans will do their best to inspire the Tigers. The 2-3 Yellow Jackets are coming off consecutive home losses. They blew a huge lead and fell to Miami on Sept. 22, then were stunned a week later in a 49-28 defeat to Middle Tennessee State…
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Hmmm … if Notre Dame is actually able to join the ACC for the 2013-14 season, that would be unexpected .. but pretty cool, I think. There’s obviously precedent for getting out of the Big East early, although Notre Dame (I’d assume) is in nowhere near the rush to leave that West Virginia was.
I suppose it would be “cleaner” as far having all of the new members join at the same time (which isn’t quite what happened the last round of ACC expansion). It might also be cleaner for the Big East, since they’ll have their new members coming on that year too, although they’d have 17 full members then.
Yeah. I mean, I’m really in no rush to add them. I think a lot of ACC teams have their 2013 football slates set already (or almost do), so it might be aggravating to add a quality team like ND (if you’re one of that year’s five squads in the rotation). I know every team in the league’s looking to fill a fourth non-conference game right now. But a lot of those slots will go to lesser teams. Everyone has major-conference opponents on the schedule already, and would likely prefer to avoid a top-10 team like Notre Dame also being added to the mix.
I thought I had heard that Notre Dame wasn’t going to start the “5-games-with-the-ACC” football scheduling until 2014. My presumption is that if they join for 2013-14 it’s only the Olympic sports so that ND’s football schedule and ACC teams’ schedules aren’t disrupted too badly for 2013.
That could very well be the case. Hoping it’s true, so teams can maintain the schedules they’d like to keep for 2013.