Re: Is Notre Dame REALLY a Big Ten school?
For Mr. pgb-ohio, I guess the rationale of this thread was to solicit opinion and compare it to mine. Here you have Notre Dame in their 3rd conference in what, 5 years although leaving the CCHA was certainly not their fault.
And it is a marriage of convenience that benefits both Notre Dame and the B1G at this point in time. My concern is what will keep Notre Dame here and what will it do to our conference if they for whatever reason choose to leave?
I personally feel the independence Notre Dame has enjoyed all these years has not worked to the benefit overall of the various conferences they align with for different sports because of their ability to leave a conference and align with a new one that's willing.
I think Notre Dame would be a natural as a full B1G member. Some have pointed out that research universities and other factors of education dominate the Big Ten however I would remind people that the Big Ten was formed in 1895 with the sole intent to promote intercollegiate athletics, not to promote other aspects of the member schools although that seems to be some of the focus in these modern times.
From what I'm told the conference is more focused on wanting a west coast university as a potential member so the conference's sphere of influence would extend coast to coast - a huge boost in broadcast revenue for it's TV network but if Notre Dame wanted to fully join they would with the right conditions accept them.
But back to what I was originally saying, I'm glad to play them in hockey but the just don't FEEL like part of the conference to me without them being a full fledged member school because this IS Big Ten hockey and the CCHA days of not having our own conference for hockey are gone. If we had more B1G schools with a hockey team would we be really willing to allow an outside program in if we had the numbers we desired?
For Mr. pgb-ohio, I guess the rationale of this thread was to solicit opinion and compare it to mine. Here you have Notre Dame in their 3rd conference in what, 5 years although leaving the CCHA was certainly not their fault.
And it is a marriage of convenience that benefits both Notre Dame and the B1G at this point in time. My concern is what will keep Notre Dame here and what will it do to our conference if they for whatever reason choose to leave?
I personally feel the independence Notre Dame has enjoyed all these years has not worked to the benefit overall of the various conferences they align with for different sports because of their ability to leave a conference and align with a new one that's willing.
I think Notre Dame would be a natural as a full B1G member. Some have pointed out that research universities and other factors of education dominate the Big Ten however I would remind people that the Big Ten was formed in 1895 with the sole intent to promote intercollegiate athletics, not to promote other aspects of the member schools although that seems to be some of the focus in these modern times.
From what I'm told the conference is more focused on wanting a west coast university as a potential member so the conference's sphere of influence would extend coast to coast - a huge boost in broadcast revenue for it's TV network but if Notre Dame wanted to fully join they would with the right conditions accept them.
But back to what I was originally saying, I'm glad to play them in hockey but the just don't FEEL like part of the conference to me without them being a full fledged member school because this IS Big Ten hockey and the CCHA days of not having our own conference for hockey are gone. If we had more B1G schools with a hockey team would we be really willing to allow an outside program in if we had the numbers we desired?
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