Ep. 466 - Matt Fortuna on Notre Dame's future; Rapid Fire Friday
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Werner is joined by The Athletic's Matt Fortuna, who discusses the position Notre Dame is in amongst the conference realignment shifting, and whether joining the Big Ten is viable option for the Fighting Irish. Later, Joey Wagner and Trevor Vallese join for another edition of Rapid Fire Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the online inquire podcast, let's talk about the next big domino that could fall in the college athletics shifting landscape. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome in. I'm Jeremy Warner, a line-inquirer publisher. |
| 0:23.3 | Of course, we've had some tectonic changes here in college athletics the last couple years. |
| 0:28.7 | Texas and Oklahoma on their way, leaving the Big 12 to the SEC. |
| 0:33.8 | Now the Big Ten last week adds USC and UCLA. |
| 0:39.2 | We talked all about it earlier in the week. abraham who covers USC for usc football dot com part of 24-7 sports go back and listen to |
| 0:45.3 | that one Ryan gave us great insight on the move from USC and UCLA's perspective but now we know |
| 0:52.2 | who's next who's the big white whale? It's Notre Dame. And could |
| 0:57.2 | Notre Dame finally be leveraged into joining the Big Ten? They are the big fish, as I said, for the |
| 1:05.0 | Big Ten. They long have been. And now can the Big Ten leverage them enough with their |
| 1:10.5 | meteorites deal compared to what used to be a great meteor rights deal for Notre Dame in their independence with NBC. |
| 1:17.8 | Now that looks like pennies compared to what the Big Ten is going to bring in with its next deal. |
| 1:22.8 | Is that enough leverage to finally get Notre Dame to join the Big Ten? |
| 1:26.9 | Coming up, we talk with Matt Fortuna from The Athletic. He covers college football at large, but also I really knows Notre Dame. Well, it's part of the Shamrock podcast as part of the athletic. We talked to him. And before we get out of here today, we also have the Rapid Fire Friday. Joey Wagner and Trevor Valise joined me for that. But let's talk about it. Can |
| 1:45.0 | Kevin Warren, he's back? I don't know if he was ever here, but he just made a huge move, |
| 1:50.1 | a legacy move for Kevin Warren, who had a rough first couple years at the Big Ten Commissioner. |
| 1:54.6 | Can he wrangle in the Fighting Irish? Matt Fortuna joins us next on the Alignanquire podcast. |
| 2:00.2 | Matt Fortuna covers college football at large for the athletic, obviously in Big Ten |
| 2:05.7 | territory in the Chicagoland area. |
| 2:08.0 | And you can hear them on the Shamrock podcast talking about Notre Dame. |
| 2:12.0 | So that's how I figured to have Matt on to talk about some new things happening in college |
| 2:16.5 | football, Matt. Let's just get into it. |
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