College football fell into another wave of major conference realignment chaos this summer, but there was one constant: Notre Dame’s standing as an independent, something dating to 1887.

Depending on one’s view, that strategy could be seen as refreshingly pure or foolishly anachronistic. But no such debate exists in South Bend, Indiana — the Fighting Irish are content with the hand they’ve played, and they’re sticking with it.

“We haven’t flinched and still adopt the same stance as [an] independent, and what we need to continue to be so,” Aaron Horvath, Notre Dame’s senior associate athletics director, told Front Office Sports. College football fell into another wave of major conference realignment chaos this summer, but there was one constant: Notre Dame’s standing as an independent, something dating to 1887.

Depending on one’s view, that strategy could be seen as refreshingly pure or foolishly anachronistic. But no such debate exists in South Bend, Indiana — the Fighting Irish are content with the hand they’ve played, and they’re sticking with it.

“We haven’t flinched and still adopt the same stance as [an] independent, and what we need to continue to be so,” Aaron Horvath, Notre Dame’s senior associate athletics director, told Front Office Sports.