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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 2738193, member: 3399"] I didn't write the damn article. ND helped stabilize the ACC, it was ripe for plucking in 2012. No spin, fact. Take care. "Notre Dame brought most of its portfolio to the conference, with one oversized exception. Coveting their longstanding football independence, the Irish resisted full-time membership and agreed to play, on average, five football games each season against rotating ACC opponents. Some ACC fans and media resent the arrangement, viewing it as one-sided with Notre Dame gaining access to the conference’s bowl partnerships, revenue and unsurpassed men’s basketball. But the truth is, the Irish have brought plenty to the ACC, even in football. Look at Saturday. ABC is airing the game at 8 p.m., the network’s most prestigious window, with its top announcing team of Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor. Notre Dame’s prime-time contests at Florida State in 2014, Clemson in 2015 and Miami last season were even more high-profile, clashes of top-15 squads with national-championship aspirations. Indeed, victories over the Irish helped the 2014 Seminoles and 2015 Tigers reach the College Football Playoff. The Irish’s other teams have been a boon to the ACC, too. They have won national championships in fencing, men’s soccer and, most indelibly, women’s basketball — take a bow, Arike Ogunbowale. They have reached two NCAA Elite Eights in men’s basketball. Which makes for a convenient segue to money. The ACC’s most recent tax records, through fiscal 2016-17, show that Notre Dame received $21.2 million in league revenue during its first four years of membership, a modest annual average of $5.3 million. Meanwhile, the conference’s average distribution to its 14 full-time members was $95.9 million, $24 million annually, more than four times the Irish’s share. Still, Notre Dame costs the ACC money, right? Au contraire. Notre Dame makes the ACC money." [URL="http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-notre-dame-acc-membership-1004-story.html"]Game at VT affirms assets Notre Dame brings to ACC[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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