mostly vague Swarbrick update on future schedules
"I think 2013 is done, but I'm not sure," Swarbrick said after BCS meetings concluded Wednesday at the Hilton O'Hare. "I know I've got a hole in one year, but I don't know if it's '13 or '14 or '15. But we're in really good shape. Right now, we have three holes through '17."
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Future schedule spreadsheet here.
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more Swarbrick on BCS
by Jay 
, San Diego, Thursday, June 14, 2012, 09:58 (4608 days ago) @ Pat
By Brian Hamilton, Chicago Tribune reporter
7:29 p.m. CDT, June 13, 2012
Jack Swarbrick emerged from a hotel meeting room Wednesday in Chicago virtually arm-in-arm with mighty SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, the Notre Dame athletic director looking supremely unworried about his school's station in college football's hegemony.
So long as his cohorts aren't metaphorically walking him into an empty wood-paneled room to whack him and Notre Dame's interests, "Goodfellas"-style, he should be so sanguine. Another lurch forward in BCS talks, another confirmation of forthcoming independence days.
"I've never been uncomfortable," Swarbrick said. "Throughout the process, there never has been any suggestion for anybody, Notre Dame or otherwise, that if you earn your way, there isn't an opportunity.
"That's what we're focused on - if we put ourselves in a position where we deserve it, do we have the opportunity that everybody else has? And every discussion we had has that element to it."
The BCS talks likely will end with a four-team playoff. School presidents will hear proposals for that June 26 in Washington. No iterations of that format outright displease Swarbrick, especially given what he called "absolute unanimity" about an emphasis on strength of schedule.
"We love that," Swarbrick said. "We fully embrace that."
Publicly anyway, Swarbrick's peers embrace Notre Dame. As BCS executive director Bill Hancock put it: "Their voice is heard."
"You have to have an opportunity and points of access for the few independents out there," ACC Commissioner John Swofford said. "They're an important part of college football, and they deserve to have a place as we go forward. And I think they will."
Swarbrick doesn't consider difficulty-of-access to the new BCS to be a Notre Dame-only issue. As for filling schedules as an independent - another flashpoint - he said he has only three holes left through 2017.
"Fortunately people have still been eager to play," Swarbrick said. "You have to remember, Notre Dame is one of the (BCS) founders. It couldn't have been formed without us any more than it couldn't have been formed without any of the key conferences. There never has been a suggestion otherwise."