Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME teams from different conferences. Basically, I'm just glad to play football, whoever it is, wherever it is. Just put somebody in front of us and put a game on a Saturday, whether it be home or away just put somebody in front of us and it doesn't really matter." Notre Dame junior linebacker Manti Te'o "I have no say in it, but it's cool playing THEY SAID IT dence while trying to swim parallel to the prevail- ing undertow. This isn't musical chairs. It's a slam dance, everyone bloodying everyone else with titanium-spiked elbows. And no one can make sense of anything in a clamor that could reshape college athletics into something entirely unlike what it was just a month ago." — Brian Hamilton, Chicago Tribune "Notre Dame is clinging to football indepen- Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters in Greens- boro, N.C., because tomorrow may be too late. If I'm Notre Dame today, and I see the Big East in mid-implosion, see that the ACC has essen- tially left a spot for me (temporarily) and see the long-term demographic trends for the Midwest, I'm spending the afternoon having a long, soul- searching look in the independence mirror. And then I'm starting negotiations to join the ACC, not the Big Ten, my persistent local suitor and the one everyone assumes I'll eventually marry." — Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports "If I'm Notre Dame today I'm on the phone to collegiate president on something that has the potential to provide some benefit for your institu- tion and the conference you're affiliated with but "I don't understand it. How do you vote as a PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL has a very negative consequence for a host of other members of the academy, as presidents like to call it? I'd like to know how much of these discussions are: What's right? What is the best thing for the larger enterprise, and how many other schools would be adversely impacted?" — Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick in USA Today Dame wanted to save the Big East football confer- ence it could have at any time in the past 20 years by simply saying one little phrase "we are going to join" but they haven't. … Notre Dame chose not to because it wants to hold onto its lucrative NBC money and access to the BCS on its own merits. In other words, Notre Dame has always looked out "Give me a break. If Jack Swarbrick and Notre