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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame outgoing AD (athletic director) Jack Swarbrick insists that Cal & Stanford are still being considered for ACC membership. Swarbrick is scheduled to retire sometime in the first few months of 2024.

The Notre Dame AD is not doing Stanford & Cal any favors by fighting for them to be accepted into the ACC. Will be disastrous for Cal & Stanford due to the burdens of frequent cross-country travel.

Swarbrick probably wants to stay on at Notre Dame until a new contract with NBC is negotiated between Notre Dame football & NBC. Notre Dame football has two early season games which may impact contract negotiations: Navy this Saturday, August 26, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland (anything can happen when jet lag is involved) and Ohio State at Notre Dame on September 23, 2023 with an always tough NC State in between.

If Navy upsets Notre Dame or Ohio State blows out Notre Dame, then contract negotiations might lean toward a lower price which may lead to serious consideration of conference membership once Swarbrick is gone. On the hand, if an undefeated Notre Dame beats Ohio State, then the negotiations should lean toward a higher price that is likely to keep Notre Dame football independent for many (5 to 10) more years. [/quote]

Winning matters less than how many people watch Ohio State blow out Notre Dame. It's good to see that the rest of the ACC sees the hypocrisy of ND trying to foist Cal and Stanford on a league they aren't willing to join. [/quote]

Great points.

I have raised the issue of transgender athletes competing for Stanford University and how that may result in difficulties for any women's athletic events in the state of North Carolina (UNC & NC State are ACC member schools).

To illustrate California craziness on the transgender athletic issue of women's sports:

https://thecentersquare.com/california/article_c691948a-4080-11ee-a99c-0b2dcf6d7d53.html

Event disbanded because presenter used term "biological male" to refer to transgender male-to-female athletes.[/quote]

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