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Notre Dame's 2014-16 ACC games announced:

 

2014 Home: Louisville, North Carolina, Wake Forest

2014 Away: Florida State, Syracuse

2015 Home: Boston College, Georgia Tech

2015 Away: Clemson, Pittsburgh, Virginia

2016 Home: Duke, Miami, Virginia Tech

2016 Away: NC State, Syracuse

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 20, 2013 -> 08:30 AM)
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/...ake-forest-2014

 

Notre Dame's 2014-16 ACC games announced:

 

2014 Home: Louisville, North Carolina, Wake Forest

2014 Away: Florida State, Syracuse

2015 Home: Boston College, Georgia Tech

2015 Away: Clemson, Pittsburgh, Virginia

2016 Home: Duke, Miami, Virginia Tech

2016 Away: NC State, Syracuse

 

The ACC does not have many good football teams.

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PASADENA, Calif. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents approved Monday a grant of media rights for the league through 2026-27, effectively halting the exodus of any schools to other conferences.

 

The move solidifies the future of the ACC, which had several teams that had been speculated as targets of the Big Ten.

 

The ACC's grant of rights makes it untenable financially for a school to leave, guaranteeing in the 14 years of the deal that a school's media rights, including revenue, for all home games would remain with the ACC regardless of the school's affiliation.

 

The ACC becomes the fourth league with a grant of rights, along with the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12. The SEC is the only conference among the "power five" leagues that does not have a grant of rights.

 

Last year, when the ACC increased its exit fee from $20 million to three times its annual operating budget -- about $52 million -- Maryland and Florida State voted against the increase.

 

Maryland leaves for the Big Ten in 2014 and has filed a lawsuit, claiming it shouldn't be responsible for the new exit fee. The ACC also filed a lawsuit against Maryland, guaranteeing the Terps pay the full amount.

 

"In my opinion, any potential realignment of the Atlantic Coast Conference ended with this vote," Miami athletic director Blake James said. "Today was a great day for the league and for all the members of the league."

 

Multiple ACC schools have been speculated as targets for the Big Ten, if that league decided to expand to 16 schools.

 

With the grant of rights in place at three other power leagues, if the Big Ten wants to add more schools, it would have to target schools from leagues that don't have a grant of rights -- the SEC, the American Athletic Conference (formerly Big East), Mid-American, Conference USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt -- or BYU.

 

On July 1, Pittsburgh and Syracuse join as full ACC members while Notre Dame joins in all sports but football. In 2014, Louisville joins the ACC as a full member. The decision applies to those schools as well.

 

The grant of rights coincides with the ACC's TV deal with ESPN through the 2026-27 season. That deal was worth $17 million per school per year, but sources told ESPN last year it is expected to increase to at least $20 million per school per year with the addition of Notre Dame.

 

"These are strong and definitive moves by the ACC and its member schools to further announce our desire to stay together and position ourselves among the top conferences in the country," Cunningham said in a statement. "We look forward to continued talks with the ACC and ESPN on how to best strengthen and position our multi-media package."

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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 23, 2013 -> 04:43 PM)
I'll make you click the link to see what they named the new college football playoff:

 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/...playoff-sources

 

Jim Delaney: ""I'll be happy w whatever. Obviously I'm not great with names."

 

LMAO.

Oh come on, it's only named that until they sign the contract. Soon it will be the Capital One __________.

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QUOTE (SexiAlexei @ Apr 28, 2013 -> 09:21 PM)
As a buckeye, I am not at all pleased with the new Big 10 divisions.

 

 

I dont see it being all too difficult in the near future.

 

Penn St is about to drift into irrelevancy, Maryland and Indiana sucks. Rutgers will be a bottom feeder. That leaves Mich St and Michigan. Michigan should always be good but if things are going right at Ohio St, OSU will be the much more talented team 3 out of 4 years vs MSU.

 

Unless youre not pleased with being stuck with the two new teams then I agree. I know its an East/West thing but thats in name only. Just split them up. You lose a traditional B10 game every year now.

 

 

Nothing says Big 10 football than the annual Rutgers-Maryland game.

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QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 28, 2013 -> 10:42 PM)
I dont see it being all too difficult in the near future.

 

Penn St is about to drift into irrelevancy, Maryland and Indiana sucks. Rutgers will be a bottom feeder. That leaves Mich St and Michigan. Michigan should always be good but if things are going right at Ohio St, OSU will be the much more talented team 3 out of 4 years vs MSU.

 

Unless youre not pleased with being stuck with the two new teams then I agree. I know its an East/West thing but thats in name only. Just split them up. You lose a traditional B10 game every year now.

 

 

Nothing says Big 10 football than the annual Rutgers-Maryland game.

It's not in name only, it's geographic. Having Rutgers play all the west teams every year just to split them up (who cares?) wouldn't make a lot of sense.

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QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 05:54 AM)
I liked the names simply because it irritated so many other college fans across the country for no reason.

It irritated Big Ten fans because it was stupid. I'd rather have my conference not have stupid division names, but TWTW syndrome I guess.

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QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 28, 2013 -> 10:42 PM)
I dont see it being all too difficult in the near future.

 

Penn St is about to drift into irrelevancy, Maryland and Indiana sucks. Rutgers will be a bottom feeder. That leaves Mich St and Michigan. Michigan should always be good but if things are going right at Ohio St, OSU will be the much more talented team 3 out of 4 years vs MSU.

 

Unless youre not pleased with being stuck with the two new teams then I agree. I know its an East/West thing but thats in name only. Just split them up. You lose a traditional B10 game every year now.

 

 

Nothing says Big 10 football than the annual Rutgers-Maryland game.

PSU wont be down long. Arguably a much tougher division for football as Nebraska isnt great and Wisconsin has an easy road year after year.

 

However, for recruiting this is great news as we get to play on the east coast more often.

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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:49 AM)
He doesn't have the hands for WR. I don't think he stays around very long.

 

Probably not. No clue why they drafted him so soon. Maybe a kick returner at best.

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Apparently, Wes Lunt is considering transferring to Southern Miss, Illinois, Louisville, Tennessee or Vanderbilt. Despite the fact that Illinois seems like [is] a bad fit on the surface, if his top priority is getting closer to home, you'd have to think Illinois has a pretty decent shot with a list like that... I'll believe it when I see it, though.

 

 

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QUOTE (gatnom @ May 13, 2013 -> 09:45 PM)
Apparently, Wes Lunt is considering transferring to Southern Miss, Illinois, Louisville, Tennessee or Vanderbilt. Despite the fact that Illinois seems like [is] a bad fit on the surface, if his top priority is getting closer to home, you'd have to think Illinois has a pretty decent shot with a list like that... I'll believe it when I see it, though.

If Monken was our HC maybe. I just don't see any way he'd come to Illinois.

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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 13, 2013 -> 09:46 PM)
If Monken was our HC maybe. I just don't see any way he'd come to Illinois.

 

It's tough to make a case for it when there's a realistic chance that he won't even be eligible to play while this coaching staff is still in place.

 

 

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05...ampionship-game

 

Pretty pathetic. Wisconsin has an outdoor stadium yet is complaining about weather?

 

Big Ten used to finish their season a week before Thanksgiving. Now they do play Thanksgiving weekend, but the championship game is a week after Thanksgiving and there can be significant differences in the weather a week later, not to mention that Soldier Field tends to be even windier than your average outdoor stadium.

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