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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 5174185, member: 3399"] ND is not going to join the Big Ten. People keep saying that it might, but everything that it has done lately (New NBC deal, favorable indy bonus playoff deal, adding Cal/Stanford/SMU to ACC) says the opposite. Big Ten people thought ND might budge when USC joined and both USC and the Big Ten put on a full court press in the summer of 2022. Flug predicted that ND was "on the clock". Nope. ND has been doing everything that it can for over thirty four years (NBC deal, partial Big East membership, partial ACC membership, etc...) to stay out of the clutches of the Big Ten. From ND's perspective, joining the Big Ten is its worst case scenario regarding conference realignment, among likely/realistic options. [/QUOTE]