Notre Dame’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff marked the end of the season for coach Marcus Freeman’s team, but the beginning of a war of words.
On Monday, fewer than 24 hours after the Fighting Irish didn’t see their name revealed on the 12-team playoff bracket, Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua went on “The Dan Patrick Show” to lash out at the ACC, saying the league that houses most of the school’s non-football sports had “done permanent damage to the relationship” between the two parties after the conference publicly lobbied for Miami to make the playoff field over the Fighting Irish.
Bevacqua’s comments received widespread criticism — including from one of his fellow power brokers in the world of college athletics.
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During a sit-down interview at Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in Las Vegas, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark slammed Bevacqua’s criticism of the ACC, describing the administrator’s words as “egregious.”
