Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick doesn’t have all that long left on the job but joined the Dan Patrick Show from Ireland on Wednesday. He was asked by Patrick about the latest part of realignment in college football and certainly didn’t mince words.
“[It’s a] complete disaster. I wish I knew (how it got to this point”
“Everybody in the industry has to take responsibility here. I’m not excluding myself from that. I think the decision making has lost its way in terms of the focus on the student-athlete and what’s primarily best for them. But we are where we are, we have to try and make it work.”
-Jack Swarbrick to Dan Patrick Show
Swarbrick also took a further stand on Notre Dame’s football independence, saying that the only things that would change that are the lack of a media partner and no fair shot to the College Football Playoff.
Swarbrick added that Notre Dame is indeed lobbying hard for Stanford and Cal to join the ACC and that realignment decisions of late have been “based on money”.
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