Do you want Notre Dame in the Big 12?

**cysocool** · 05-23-2012, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Topshelf

What, no poll? This would be a good poll question.

Yes, I want Notre Dame, great Hockey and Baseball program... wait, they would fit better with the Big 10... wait, I hate the Big 10, now I'm confused.

Hockey has its own league called Hockey East. Still worried about lacrosse and field hockey...

The 10-member league, already in the process of adding Notre Dame for 2013, has been looking for a 12th member to ease scheduling problems.

Read more: Report: Hockey East wants Connecticut as 12th member for 2013-14 :: USCHO.com :: U.S. College Hockey Online

**jboffer** · 05-23-2012, 08:20 AM

Notre Dame would be crazy to not listen to offers.

They're not just thinking about now, they're anticipating the future. Depending on how the landscape unfolds, they might find themselves wanting to make a decision within a month (at any given point in time). Contact and evaluation is a good thing.

Right now ND schedules a lot of ACC games every year. If that conferences goes down the tubes, you would naturally assume those ACC teams would get even weaker and less relevant. Then they might find themselves trying to schedule themselves as an independent while every desirable team is now part of a super conference with limited wiggle room. Plus, they would not want to allow themselves to get shut out of a playoff. The big boys will have no problem pushing ND out until they join one of them.

If we reach the age of the super conferences, ND will be in a conference.

**Hayes30** · 05-23-2012, 08:24 AM

Yes as full members

**Rockman** · 05-23-2012, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by isuno1fan

If all in and playing by the same rules as everyone else then yes. If ANYTHING is unique to ND only then emphatically NOOOOOOO>

Succinct but spot on. Having been a partial member with ND in the BE, they are all about ND. They were supposed to play a certain amount of BE games but that never quite happened. I know the Big XII is not the BE and maybe Deloss can keep them inline. I think it would be exceedingly hard for ND to put the conference before their wants and need after being ND-centric for so many years.....but according to most informed folks on the different boards, what Texas wants, they usually get. I hope they install a shock collar on them so they can be zapped when they get out of line.