Does the ACC profit from Notre Dame football
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Probably not. Notre Dame profits are for Notre Dame. It is about them.
Uh...the conference gets five or six games a year from Notre Dame. Nobody here thinks we profited from our Primetime Game at L&N the week after they had a Primetime game at Duke last year?
When they play in ACC stadiums I guess there’s the benefit of a bigger crowd and more paid attendance. As far as non-monetary profit goes, ACC schools get a quality opponent on the non-conference schedule, which helps with SOS and probably some with recruiting.
There were a lot of green and gold in the stands when we played ND but begs the question, if they bought tickets through Stubhub or whatever, how does the University benefit from that? Concessions are concessions, do ND fans eat and drink more than other fans? I fail to see any real substantial benefit.
Went back and looked it up, scheduling ND at home is basically the same as having UK at home, about 58,000. I guess more ND fans would stay overnight and eat at restaurants in town so I could see how the city might benefit from that but again that's not the University.
Went back and looked it up, scheduling ND at home is basically the same as having UK at home, about 58,000. I guess more ND fans would stay overnight and eat at restaurants in town so I could see how the city might benefit from that but again that's not the University.
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I will add despite the fact that I wasn't at the Notre Dame game last year--being represented by my son and daughter being in the same stadium for the first time in ten years--but I'd bet that the money that went towards NIL DURING the Notre Dame last year with all the markups on drinks/concessions in the Club Suites and that scan donation far exceeded any other the two years they have been drawing into NIL at L&N.
ND series is good for UL; certainly better than without. They compete in all sports except Football, and if that is as good as it gets, I am fine with it.
I agree having ND associated with the ACC is a big bonus. As much criticism as the ACC is taking this year Notre Dame could be used as an argument in our favor. They are not officially an ACC football school but they play an ACC football schedule. If ND was not associated with ACC instead they were associated with the B1G we would notice our loss.
Stubhub doesn’t print the tickets. They ultimately come from the university- ticket/holders who bought them resell them. So yes, the university benefits. But not really more than if we were playing Kansas State.
I don't believe the University can resell them at those prices, only ticket holders and that benefits them, not the university.
Look at the TV ratings when a team plays Notre Dame and you’ll find the value in playing them.
Everyone wants Notre Dame in their conference. That is all you need to know. I wish Louisville played them every year. The benefit outweighs the risk.
Notre Dame will never join a conference until they are forced and not sure what set of circumstances would force their hand. I said it another post. They may become extremely good in this NIL-Transfer ERA. They have the entire package as a program.
Notre Dame will never join a conference until they are forced and not sure what set of circumstances would force their hand. I said it another post. They may become extremely good in this NIL-Transfer ERA. They have the entire package as a program.
Does that translate into money for the University? If so, stop playing Murray St, WKU, Austin Peay, Jax St and play the MIchigan's, Ohio St., Texas, Alabama.... If we start winning again, we can get sellouts no matter who we are playing.
It certainly does - it makes the ACC TV package more attractive, giving the ACC bargaining power when selling those TV rights. That translates into more money for each school from that source.
We do have Georgia home and home in 26-27 and Texas A&M in 28-29.
ND is coveted by all conferences. The fact that ND competes in all sports inside the ACC except football appeared to be a huge advantage for the ACC before the aggressive expansion by BIG and SEC. I am afraid the ACC has since lost the inside track, in fact I suspect any departures from the ACC could result in the conference being cannibalized.
Does the ACC profit from Notre Dame?
Absolutely.
It is true that Notre Dame does keep all their football playoff money.
But I'm pretty sure that ND shares in all other bowl money as part of their agreement with the ACC. With ND being part of our bowl lineup, we should get better bowls in our lineup.
All you need to know about our arrangement with Notre Dame is that the Big XII would give their left nut to have our ND deal.
I wish we had them on our schedule every year. It sucks when they aren't.
My only point that I was trying to make is that some fans think we get extra credit or recognition that ND plays us and ACC opponents but they are also smiling and giving us the middle finger by not "joining" as an actual member. They have always acted as better than anybody out there by being an independent. For those who want to say but we only lost by 7 to ND, its almost nearly as bad as UK saying they are a football powerhouse because they're SEC, SEC, SEC. They're hanging on the coattails of the Alabama's, Georgia's, LSU's and soon to be Texas and Oklahoma except those teams are actually SEC members. I hate both Ohio St and ND, but if it had to come down to it, I would pick the Buckeyes over the priviledged green and gold.
Also, there would’ve been no ACC network without ND being involved in non- football sports.
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