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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 4612192, member: 3609"]
Excellent posts [USER=622]HtownOrange[/USER] .

From what I gather:

1. ND considers itself an Eastern school that happens to be in the Midwest because the main population centers for their alumni are primarily East Coast cities (FL and the Northeast) and Chicago.  They don't seem to schedule West Coast teams often, just USC (their blood rival) and Stanford.

2. They've played USC forever because USC would play them when many in the B1G wouldn't because of anti-Catholic bias.  Remembering from back in the day, Purdue seemed to be the B1G team they'd play most often.

3. Stanford is viewed as a peer academically.  While they played them sporadically in the past, the annual game is a fairly recent development.

4. ND fans seem to have a fairly strong aversion to the B1G (remembrance of past slights?), to the point that many of them really didn't like the idea that they have to play hockey in the B1G because of the "mandated" regionalization of the conferences.
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