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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 2812437, member: 173"]
I think another underappriciated aspect of Notre Dame’s position is due to either an ignorance of history, or lack of appreciation for its significance.

Notre Dame wanted to join the Big Ten in the 1920’s, but were blocked largely due to strong anti-Catholic bias (led by Yost at Michigan and Stagg at Chicago).  Many of the Big Ten schools - that would have made more sense geographically - refused to schedule Notre Dame over what they called eligibility concerns, but that Notre Dame felt (with some justification) was thinly veiled bigotry.

Those decisions partly forced Notre Dame to play a national schedule, which helped turn them into a national program.  So some of Notre Dame’s insistence on football independence is because it’s a giant “**** You” to the prejudice which helped keep them out of the Big Ten a century ago.

It’s unrealistic to say they should just accept it’s a new time and move on; I could make comparisons that would devolve this into a political thread, so I’ll avoid that and just say it isn’t arrogance which drives Notre Dame’s desire to remain independent.
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