[NU Sports] ND neutral sites

[Brad Wilson]

... are "home" games for ND. So Teevee will be NBC. 

The old idea of "neutral" site games was exactly that:
teams would split the tickets and revenues, wanting to
play in a place good for both. 

But this ND move seems very different.

I dislike the idea of "home" games where most students
and local fans cannot attend. What's the point of
college football then? A team that has fewer and fewer
connections to its university and its local fan base
seems more like an NFL team than anything CFB fans
would recognize. 

I rather doubt ND will play Louisville much in the Big
East deal: they have a long-established series with
Pittsburgh and have played Syracuse and Rutgers in the
past and would stick, I suspect, to those teams. 

bw

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