Re: TNET: Paul Finebaum says ACC has no chance of competing without Notre Dame

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Clemson, and the ACC, can do very well without Notre Dame

Jul 13, 2022, 9:21 PM

as a full time footballer. We have enough juice at the top in football to put together some compelling, exciting, and lucrative Saturdays week in and week out. We just have to leverage that top end better, way better, than we've done since we grew past nine. Back to nine wouldn't be bad. A top 9, then recruit some tweener programs in as football affiliates for scheduling purposes to pad out the league's basketball schools in the other 9. We could treat football affiliates as tryouts for full league. Who knows. Schedule 4 of Notre Dame's annual games against the top batch, so 2x both for the ACC and NBC - prime time. That's bank, baby. Let 'em travel around and play other leagues. It only makes us look better, and we can bank on that also.

All's I'm saying is we have a lot more sizzle in the football arena than we've been allowed to showcase. We've sidelined far too much in exchange for a more equitable schedule, but the times now call for something different. We're proven on the field and in the trophy cases. We have all the tools right now to create a highly watched, highly valuable enterprise. Just got to rearrange the pieces to let them work better together, and for each other.

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I'm saying put together a potent 'football' division within the current ACC's mix, which is essentially 8 programs of the 14, maybe add a WVa and/or Cincinnati to that, and schedule heavily within that division to create much more attractive games for the general public every week. With the other division, attract some eastern G5 programs into that mix so it's the same size as the upper division, and let them all play more games together also. Schedule a few crossover games between. For Notre Dame's annual 5 games with the ACC, make four of those against the top division and one against the lesser.

We water down our schedule and impact by having too many non-football powers in the league. At the top, we have as much firepower as the SEC or B1G. If we would let the top play each other more often and the bottom play each other more often we'd have a much more attractive football product to sell a media partner.

TNET: Paul Finebaum says ACC has no chance of competing without Notre Dame