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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 316877, member: 1145"]
ND has had a standing offer from the ACC since we expanded to 12. 
 
Your friend is correct that the ACC's non-revenue sports mean a great deal to NBC, but he may overstate the women part. That is big for ND, but ACC baseball and men's lacrosse and soccer are also major draws. Non-revenue sports are very big with ND alums, and save for water sports, which ND does not do, the ACC is the best. 
 
He did not mention ACC basketball? ND basketball wants to be in as big a conference with as large a national TV drawing power as possible. Even with the ACC down a good deal, we are a clear #2 to the Big Ten in total basketball viewers nationally. With Syracuse and Pitt, our quality rises and so will our viewership. BE basketball was drawing fewer viewers than the SEC, and that will get worse for the BE without Cuse and Pitt and adding UCF and SMU. 
 
I think if/when ND joins the ACC, it is going to want Navy in ACC football, because ND has played Navy more than any school and intends to play Navy annually forever.
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