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I thought this whole thing about the SEC breaking away from the NCAA was dying down, but ESPN’s Heather Dinich gave it more steam during a report on SportsCenter yesterday.
Now, obviously, so much of this is posturing for political sake as schools and conferences are openly out there lobbying for congressional help. That’s probably going on here, but let’s talk about the possibility of it happening.
What if the SEC breaks away from the NCAA? How does this affect Notre Dame?
The short answer is something like… it really doesn’t. Outside of some scheduling dates, there’s nothing here that would ultimately force Notre Dame to do anything different. In essence, it’s just a handful of schools now that are less important to the national championship than the MAC.
Notre Dame is one of a number of other programs that are outspending and outworking most of the SEC. In truth, I’m probably wrong — it would affect Notre Dame, but much more on the positive side of things such as recruiting, NIL deals, and paths to championships.
So… go right ahead Greg. Notre Dame isn’t the only program that would benefit from the SEC’s departure from the NCAA.
The only move that would begin to greatly impact the Irish is if the Big 10 would join the SEC in the departure. Rather than the SEC being just a splinter group of travel baseball crybaby parents, the move of the two most dominant conferences would create the super league that changes everything. It would be a whole new world, and Notre Dame would have to make a decision about what’s important for its football program and as a university as a whole moving forward.
