very hard to keep the Navy game intact. I am pretty sure if they really wanted to, the ACC would have let them go to Maryland to play. Sounds like they didn't want to go to Annapolis in the first place.
I would also have liked to have been a fly on the wall to hear the conversation between Swarbrick and the Navy AD. I am guessing that there was much less mutual understanding than the Navy AD gives ND credit for. Who knows, but it just seems par for the course with ND.