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Message: [QUOTE="SU94, post: 4727774, member: 202"] You forgot consistently conceited/vain. Correct, that’s your right. But it is not a good look, especially when other institutions have on multiple occasions reached out to assist/lift up/support the University of Notre Dame. I am thinking about the Naval Academy and the other 14 ACC institutions during the COVID year. Believe me, Terry, I get ND’s stance. Independence has served you well to date. Incredibly well. But it is also with diminishing returns in this modern time. And to be overly dramatic on my end, there are 16 or so of your close friends that could stand for some of the same support and flexibility that has been bestowed upon ND in the past. That includes Cal and your second West Coast crush/academic hero, Stanford, who you will now allow you to founder and perhaps suffer significantly for your vanity. Why would you allow for that? I don’t believe that ND will forever be an independent when it comes to football (has conference affiliation hindered your other sponsored sports? The answer is unequivocally no). It is time. Most sense it. And when it does happen, the story of independence lost it will be in the headlines for about 12 hours. Bevacqua will hold out for a bit, but he is forward leaning. Always has been wherever he’s worked. Check out his record. It will happen on his watch. If nothing else, ND can help restore some degree of sanity to the entire college football landscape and at the same time, douse the B10’s selfish imperialistic urges that they chose not to control. They think they’ve got you. Don’t give them that pleasure. This is can be ND’s pivot to a new legacy in modern times: play it forward, help those that helped you. And give the B10 slap diicckk Commish, presidents and (especially) ADs a super-sized middle finger. Remember, yours is a Catholic-based institution (based on giving and service) and this is all about three football games against teams you’ll most likely play with some degree of regularity anyhow (at least the majority of them). [/QUOTE]

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