Notre Dame Interested in Joining Football Conference?

Are the Irish ready to finally join a football conference? Will Notre Dame be forced to seek refuge from an always-brutal schedule and take part in a conference’s schedule? Some say yes. In fact, it’s one of the hottest rumors in the college sports section of the Truth and Rumors side of FanNation, a sub-site of SportsIllustrated.com.

Apparently if the Irish have another losing season, the pressure to join a legitimate conference will be too high to resist. As you probably know, the Irish are, and have been, an independent football school for years. Staying outside of a conference allows them to have a more flexible schedule, and because the fan base for this school is so high, many people like the idea that Notre Dame can travel all over to play.

Of course, this is all speculation. The SI.com page has a link to the actual source of the article, the New York Times, so you can judge for yourself. But if this does happen, the questions boggle one’s mind.

Will Notre Dame join the Big Ten with some of their traditional football rivals? Will they go to the Big East, where their other athletic teams participate? Or will they go to another Midwest conference, like C-USA? Too early to start thinking about all of this stuff, say we.

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