[82lsju]

The real question is why are we slaves to Notre Dames scheduling, we don't get any money from them.  Or do Stanford and Low APR U still refuse to play Big Game Thanksgiving weekend too, for some reason?

last I heard there was still brobdingnagian resistance to having Big Game the week of Thanksgiving

- Stanford closes for the week
- Cal closes Wed-Fri

as to why keep the ND game, well there's the

- regular trip to the midwest for recruiting purposes (and the opportunity to tour South Bend Indiana)
- storied intersectional rivalry (but not as storied as their rivalry with USC)
- help it gives ND recruiting by giving them a west coast game every year (oh, I guess that's not good for us)
- at least back when we first started playing them, it almost guaranteed the game would be televised (no longer applicable as all the games are televised, but I cannot imagine this game ever being on the Pac-12 network so this guarantees either NBC (games there) or ESPN/ABC or FOX (games here))
- "The Legends Trophy"

[82lsju]

The real question is why are we slaves to Notre Dames scheduling, we don't get any money from them.  Or do Stanford and Low APR U still refuse to play Big Game Thanksgiving weekend too, for some reason?

last I heard there was still brobdingnagian resistance to having Big Game the week of Thanksgiving

- Stanford closes for the week
- Cal closes Wed-Fri

as to why keep the ND game, well there's the

- regular trip to the midwest for recruiting purposes (and the opportunity to tour South Bend Indiana)
- storied intersectional rivalry (but not as storied as their rivalry with USC)
- help it gives ND recruiting by giving them a west coast game every year (oh, I guess that's not good for us)
- at least back when we first started playing them, it almost guaranteed the game would be televised (no longer applicable as all the games are televised, but I cannot imagine this game ever being on the Pac-12 network so this guarantees either NBC (games there) or ESPN/ABC or FOX (games here))
- "The Legends Trophy"