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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5618537, member: 173"]
Eh.  I've been critical of how Notre Dame played their hand after the selection this year - but the deal they have now is wildly overplayed by their haters.  Realistically if they were top 10 they were guaranteed to be in, now its top 12...so what.  Its not like there can't be some game playing to knock them down to #13 somewhat similar to what we saw this year.

I'm not sure how they are going to be legally pressured to join a conference - I've said Notre Dame has got a great deal with the ACC that they like to undersell - but its also not a situation the ACC can do better than either.  If the ACC demands they join fully or get out - I think Notre Dame would leave, put non-football sports back in the Big East and take their chance at scheduling 12 games a year instead of 6 like they do now.   What has 0.0% chance of happening is Notre Dame football in the ACC.  Feel free to propose a way that anyone can "pressure" Notre Dame to join a conference that isn't illegal (like - join a conference or you can't be in the playoff that would get tossed out as illegal which is why it won't happen) because any suggestions I've seen are bat-crap crazy nonsense.

At some point the ACC-Notre Dame deal will implode because its a marriage of convenience nobody really likes - but it won't happen anytime soon.
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