Newsstand: Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick remarks on Irish football independence
College football is more about money, money, money with each passing day. It’s why USC and UCLA competing in the Midwest-driven Big Ten and Stanford and Cal joining the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning in 2024 somehow makes sense, on both fronts.
But monetary value is not the only value that matters, even in this era. Notre Dame director of athletics Jack Swarbrick made that clear at the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Forum in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Swarbrick beat the drum of Fighting Irish’s football’s independence.
“We don’t do it because it’s financially advantageous or competitively advantageous; we do it because of the value to the university,” Swarbrick said according to FOX Sports’ Bryan Fischer.
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The Irish survived the most recent round of conference realignment and remained independent thanks in large part to a lucrative TV rights extension with NBC inked in November. The Irish are the only program in the country that receives most of its TV money through a one-on-one partnership with an outlet like NBC. Just as Swarbrick said, and as head coach Marcus Freeman recently said, there is value in that.
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— Irish men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry
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