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[QUOTE="kyleslamb, post: 17858, member: 895"]
Notre Dame a fish out of water in the Big Ten?

With all due respect... Notre Dame has been involved with Purdue, Michigan and Michigan State for many years. The Big East was something of a newer thing for them. The only reason they were hitched to those schools is hoping they could preserve independence, not because of loyalty to the schools themselves.

They've played their Big Ten rivals (UM, MSU and Purdue) over 190 times combined, with potential, natural rivalries awaiting against Ohio State, Penn State and Northwestern plus being able to participate in the newly formed Big Ten hockey conference. They've played all the Big East football teams combined less than 100 times.

To say they're a fish out of water in the Big Ten is ridiculously inaccurate. Heck, their faculty dearly wants to join the Big Ten because of the relationship with the CIC and what it would mean to institutional research.

The only reason they were in the Big East to begin with is simply because they needed a place to park their conference sports so they can share in the Men's Basketball Fund. The Big Ten wouldn't let them be an associate member, so they had to find someone who would.
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