For the life of me, I dont know why other schools continue to schedule them as an OOC game. They should have been coerced into joining a conference years ago by scheduling avoidance.
Remind me again of how many other INDIVIDUAL teams have an EXCLUSIVE contract to show ALL of their games regardless?
Notre Dame is money in the bank for the team that plays them.
That "we'll force them to do what we want" might work if we were talking about, say, BYU.
USC is not going to suddenly stop playing Notre Dame - given the squishy support for them when they're not good, they need it.
Navy needs the money - they're not going to give up that game, either.
Stanford has played them every year since 1997. Stanford is not going to replace the Irish with some small FCS team with the wrong colored football field.
Your objection here is sorta like the objection that used to be lodged about "I don't know why we can't have a playoff and just tell the bowl games the go screw themselves."
Because the bowl games were GUARANTEED CONFERENCE MONEY and GUARANTEED TV MONEY.
Jim Delaney doesn't want the Rose Bowl to match the Big 10 and Pac 10 because he's a stubborn jerk; he wants that because he wants the conference money.
It's no accident we got the BCS only AFTER the Rose Bowl contract expired and could be figured into the negotiation. Even then, the Rose Bowl wanted to go last in the rotation - and then got their way with the additional BCS game that meant they could have both "the Rose Bowl" and the "BCS Title Game."
And if you doubt Notre Dame is big money.......CBS just abandoned a cash cow of prime time LSU-Alabama in order to show prime time Notre Dame-UGA.
That's why this "let's boycott Notre Dame until they join a conference" won't work.
