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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 638310, member: 652"]
ND is 5/8s a member of the ACC, which is a huge step for the ND football program. When you were in the Big East because the leadership of that conference was horrible and cared more about protecting Providence College's little relevancy in basketball rather than forming a real conference of strength Notre Dame never helped the Big East football schools by even playing 3 of them in home/home arrangements. With the ACC you are playing 5 of 12 games a year against ACC competition which is 42% of your schedule. Whether it means ND is going to wait 10 years or more to join fully is another thing.
 
ND has given the ACC its "verbal" and don't think you have signed the LOI to become a full-member but eventually I think ND will join fulltime(after the 2026 season) and will have significant say as to whom the 16th team will be. ND has 3 games they must play each year Navy, USC, Stanford(Navy for helping keep ND afloat during WWII and Stanford/USC for CA recruiting purposes) you guys enjoy long time rivalries with Purdue and Michigan State as well, but when the B1G goes to 9 or 10 conference games do you think that Purdue and Michigan State will automatically have room to schedule ND? I think ND has time to remain independence, but this deal with ACC was to eventually set the table for when they want to join a conference. The B1G blackballed ND in the 1930s/40s and ND doesn't want to join that rustbelt, but the ACC is located in a good recruiting grounds and won't be that difficult for ND to win a NC out of like the SEC.
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