The Blue Board

With those academic requirements, I don't care where they sit, they have the smallest recruiting pool in the country to draw from. Vanderbilt is in the south, and they lose the cream of the crop in academics and football talent to the west coast.

Plus, they have to compete with USC that has a grander tradition in CFB than they do, and while Stanford has elite academics, USC is no slouch in that category either.

Cal may not win, but look at the players they put into the league...evidently, enough kids want to play football for the flagship school of the public university system. UCLA are just a joke with no excuse for being so shitty.

Well said.

A lot of ND haters like to poke fun of the fact that ND plays Navy every year. Navy helped ND tremendously in a time when ND was struggling financially to survive so I do not see ND ever ending that rivalry.

Trojans know and understand it. Notre Dame is loyal to those they call rivals...and the Domers pick them well!

Michigan began the crusade against Notre Dame when the Irish began beating them soundly...and didn't play the Irish for 40 years. All these interesting little facts put winning percentages of some of these various programs into perspective...playing the system to pad your winning stats. All that losing to the most dominant football program of it's time, didn't help us one bit.

Old Trojan saying...

"There is nothing better than to beat Notre Dame, and nothing worse than to lose to UCLA"

has been a rivalry for a long time but you join a conf and all bets are off

This is where power comes in....USC did not back down to the PAC to change anything about this rivalry, an exception made for it's traditional time slot (the "Notre Dame exception") the only OOC game that can be played during the conference season. Helps to have godless Stanford - one of the two California schools that is against admitting a religious school into the conference, also wishing to continue their renewed series with the Irish.

The Domers have a strong bargaining power in any conference they chose.

I love Notre Dame/Navy and actually would be for them playing Army as well. I like the tradition of the game even if it isn't a great matchup every year.

Strong bargaining power for sure. I just hope they don't try to make that bargaining power something that they and other teams in a possible conference regret.

I want Notre Dame to do what they think is best for them. I would love to see them good again, but don't know if they want to do the things that are best for the football program or what's best for their image as a University. Those priorities have to be decided first. Personally, if a conference is the way the decide to go, I think it needs to be the B1G as the ACC or even worse, the Big East would do more to marginalize the brand than help it.

Notre Dame and the B1G certainly don't need each other, but they would both be good for each other, if that makes sense at all.

Recruiting hasn't been the problem. Losing players because of poor coaching hires and just plain poor coaching is what has currently hurt the most.

Clearly a younger poster...or a troll.

They had their chance. I'm not so sure the door is open. Not to mention I have my questions as to the authenticity of the info. I hope this is not true. Let em play in the Big East !