Rumor of Navy entering the ACC

Many people don't know that Notre Dame and Navy have a multi-decade agreement to play each other. It comes from the fact that back during the WWII era and the "days of Army and Navy" football dominance, Navy agreed to play Notre Dame (who was struggling financially if you can believe it) and this helped ND survive financially. To ND's credit, they never ceased to acknowledge what Navy did to assist them in their years of financial struggling and they agreed to 'always' play Navy. Look it up. This is why you are seeing current references to Navy entering the ACC....probably to help broker a deal to convince ND to be a full fledged member because they would be able to still fulfill their commitment to play Navy every year and they could easily schedule Navy as a conference member every year. Look it up !!!!

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Nov 28, 2012, 4:39 PM

Louisville was the more prudent get. They're a football school on the rise and they've built themselves a nice home college football field in the process. They have a great basketball tradition and I'm stoked about us playing them in b ball. The ACC needed a football name and they've got one in an up and coming program. Petrino did pretty well there also, so it's a program that can spend the money on a head guy and get greater exposure in areas they need to recruit from. They'll be a challenge on the field.

I would prefer that we hold tight for now but if there's a legitimate opportunity to add Navy with Notre Dame, or even adding Navy as a non-football program with Notre Dame's 5-team rotation set-up and let them remain independent in football, IMO that would be a much better school to align with than any more other Big East schools. We could use some of Maryland's money to help Louisville and Navy make the transition. 14 in football for the time being with 16 in all other sports, with an opportunity to go full 16. Not bad.