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Would be interested to know if the recent statements from various coaches (including Dabo Swinney) about Notre Dame needing to join a conference are simply the result of questions from reporters, or a concerted and calculated effort to apply pressure on the Irish.

Maybe a little bit of both.

Not that it matters much, because it's going to take a lot more than that for them to feel compelled to join up with the ACC full-time.

Anyway, Stewart Mandel joins the growing chorus of media outlets basically telling these coaches to mind their own business.

It's bizarre, isn't it? Notre Dame is coming off an 8-5 Music City Bowl season, yet a lot of coaches out there are suddenly concerned about the Irish's playoff access. Gary Pinkel's seemingly out-of-nowhere comments began the whole thread. I'm not surprised that ACC coaches would say the same when asked, given that Notre Dame is playing ACC teams every year, sharing in their bowl partnerships and conference revenue but still not actually a member. You can see why that'd cause some grumbling.

That being said, not only do ACC coaches lack the power to force Notre Dame to join their conference, but the College Football Playoff itself can no sooner force a school to join a conference than it can force the Big 12 to hold a championship game, force the SEC to play nine league games or force Texas and Texas A&M to schedule each other.

Always remember my golden rule of college football: No one is in charge.

The thing I'd tell Dabo Swinney, Dave Doeren and everyone else quoted in that article is that no, the sport is not uniform, but the whole purpose of having a selection committee is to weigh those discrepancies. It did just that last year when it picked four 13-game conference champions and left out 11-1 TCU and Baylor. The Irish could well meet the same fate one year. Or, the opposite could hold true. Or, on the off chance Doeren's NC State team is a contender this year, the committee could look at a schedule that includes Troy, Eastern Kentucky, Old Dominion and South Alabama, put it up against an ND schedule whose four worst opponents include two other Wolfpack foes (Wake Forest and Boston College) and say . . . really Dave Doeren?

By the way, Notre Dame's last game this season is at Stanford. What odds would you give me that the Cardinal go in ranked higher than one of the two teams in the ACC championship game?

In Newport News, David Teel says advocates for full Notre Dame conference membership are misguided.

First, if coaches ruled the world, the NCAA men's basketball tournament would be at least 128 teams. So while their opinions can be interesting and newsworthy, they hardly portend change.

Second, until the NCAA permits conferences with fewer than 12 members, such as the Big 12, to stage a football championship, the hand-wringing over Notre Dame is pointless.

Third, and most important, Notre Dame's 12-game minefield often is more challenging than the 13-game schedules navigated by teams that compete in a league title contest. The primary reason is that the Irish do not play Championship Subdivision programs.

Meanwhile, most of the 64 teams in the five power conferences do play FCS opponents. This season the number is 50, including all 14 in the ACC and 13 of 14 in the SEC.

But even the SEC's exception, Florida, comes with an asterisk. All four of the Gators' non-conference games — New Mexico State, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic and Florida State — are at home, giving them just four road games.

Conversely, Notre Dame plays six games away from home, including Clemson, Pitt and Stanford. The Irish host Georgia Tech, Southern California and Texas.


A few Thursday links:

-- Mark Schlabach gets Mike Leach's take on Deflategate, and not surprisingly Leach gives an interesting take.

Leach, whose teams have produced some of the most prolific passing attacks in the country over the past several seasons, said the NFL is making too much of a deal about how footballs are inflated. He said a football's air pressure really doesn't affect a game's outcome.

"Give them an empty football and let them fill it however they want to," Leach said during an appearance at ESPN on Wednesday. "If your quarterback wants a deflated football, your soccer-style kicker is going to want it kind of full. If your quarterback wants it really full, your straight-on kicker is going to want less air in it. It's a regulation football; let them use it however they want to. You use your own ball."

Leach said the NFL and its fans should focus their energy and attention on more important issues.

"It's kind of disturbing if you think about it," Leach said. "With everything that’s going on, we're worried about how much air goes into a ball when everybody uses their own ball. It's not like it's a forged football.

"We waste a lot of time with that, and then we worry about the Kardashians. How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service."

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In Charleston, Gene Sapakoff says age won't be the reason Steve Spurrier decides to hang it up.

The more Spurrier talks about himself, the more he takes pressure off of players. Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was the master at such deflection.

“He can handle it any way he wants but I thought it was a positive thing,” recruiting coordinator Steve Spurrier Jr. said of his father’s age-defying onslaught. “To have him come out kind of loud like that for our program, I kind of liked it.”

Spurrier Jr. said rival recruiters “constantly try to convey” Spurrier’s age to prospects. But, Spurrier Jr. added, such negative buzz has been out there for several years.

“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “We’re rolling forward.”

And this:

If anything, Spurrier is the victim of his greatest South Carolina success. But note that he was a better coach at 66, 67 and 68 than at 61, 62 or 63.

Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder, 75, has won 38 games over the last four seasons.

Central Florida’s George O’Leary, 68, went 12-1 with a Fiesta Bowl win in 2013.

The only loss was to Spurrier.

A rematch is set for Sept. 26, a must-win for South Carolina between road games at Georgia and Missouri.

But while Spurrier is aging so well, why not mix in some humor? Former President Ronald Reagan took the initiative with a jab at Walter Mondale during a 1984 debate preceding an election in which the incumbent won 49 states.

“I will not make age an issue in this campaign,” said Reagan, 73. “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

Take that, Dabo.

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ESPN programming note: Mark May will be saying inane things in an ABC studio this fall.

-- And we close with some cool improv blues from Paul Butterfield.



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