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Chip Kelly points to Notre Dame football as an example for realignment (lemmy.ml)

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Notre Dame is an independent in football, but they’re in a conference for everything else, why aren’t we all independent for football? Take the 64 teams in Power Five and make that one division, take the 64 teams in Group of Five, make that another division. We play for a championship, they play for a championship and no one else gets affected. Our sport’s different than everybody else — we only play once a week, travel’s not a big deal for football, but it is a big deal for other sports. So that’s my theory.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chip, it's about the money and tv rights. It's not about football.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah if it was about the sport itself Rutgers wouldn't be in the Big 10.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No no, he's got a point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

G5 would NOT take kindly to an official demotion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Notre Dame also isn't a research University that would benefit from being in a conference when competing for research funding.