Blue Devil Country's Shawn Krest and All Wolfpack's Brett Friedlander appeared on a podcast to discuss the new ACC schedule. Here, they talk about bringing Notre Dame in as a football member
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00:00 Welcome back to another podcast here on TarheelIllustrated.com, UNC football related, ACC football related
00:06 because earlier today, huge news.
00:09 The ACC has a schedule that I'd like to welcome very good friends of Tarheel Illustrated,
00:15 very good personal and professional friends of mine, two of the best in the business.
00:19 They both write for the Sports Illustrated Maven sites.
00:22 First Sean Crest, who covers Duke for the SI Maven site, and Brett Freelander, who covers
00:27 NC State for the SI Maven site.
00:31 You see that Notre Dame's in there and it just put a charge into me, especially given
00:35 the fact that the last few months has been a challenge coming up with interesting stuff
00:40 to talk about, but now we finally get something.
00:42 I think the biggest thing that came out of this is the fact that Notre Dame is going
00:46 to share its TV revenue from NBC with the other 14 teams.
00:51 I think that's huge because David Cutcliffe made a point of saying that if Notre Dame
00:55 is going to be involved in this, that they should pay up and good for John Swofford for
00:59 making it happen.
01:00 Yeah, no, I agree.
01:03 The Notre Dame news was huge.
01:05 I was frankly surprised to see that.
01:07 I assumed that Notre Dame usually gets the best, the better of these types of negotiations,
01:12 so I was assuming they were going to get to keep the lion's share of their NBC money and
01:15 then share in the ACC stuff.
01:17 I think what this tells us is for the first time in our football watching lives, Notre
01:23 Dame didn't hold all the cards.
01:25 They need a season.
01:28 And if you look at what's going on around the nation, the prospect of them trying to
01:32 find a schedule that NBC would be happy with, I think Notre Dame had to do this and the
01:38 ACC was there to help Notre Dame, which I think positions the ACC very well in its quest
01:43 to bring Notre Dame on down the road.
01:45 I think this hastens Notre Dame.
01:47 I think it was inevitable eventually Notre Dame is going to end up being in the ACC.
01:51 I think this is going to speed the process.
01:54 John?
01:55 Yeah, Notre Dame was in a tough spot.
01:58 They lost a quarter of their schedule.
02:00 Three or four of their games were against Pac-12 or Big Ten teams who have already canceled
02:04 non-conference games, so they were scrambling to fill out a quarter of their schedule and
02:08 that's if everybody else agrees to keep them on the schedule.
02:11 So they needed to do something desperately.
02:14 John Swofford has not minced his words.
02:17 The end game is to get Notre Dame in the ACC playing football.
02:20 That's why they're in the league for everything else.
02:22 They got the six game schedule.
02:23 They had six game ACC teams on the schedule this year.
02:27 How about?
02:28 Yeah, I mean, I think that I think this has been the long range plan that Notre Dame needs
02:34 to join this conference and Notre Dame, if they were going to join a conference, I think
02:39 they made it clear it was going to be the ACC a couple years ago.
02:42 I think this expedited things by several years.
02:45 I don't know how long that have held out with this weird arrangement that they've had.
02:48 I know that the games are scheduled almost to 2030, if not to 2030.
02:53 So I think they were planning on doing this going forward.
02:55 But yeah, I think we're going to see changes to that model.
02:59 A lot of models across sports, but specifically that model, thanks to the pandemic here.