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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1596993, member: 1145"] ND has already joined ACC football - 5/8ths worth. When a conference schedules league games for you, you are a member of that league. The ACC schedules games for ND football every year. The issue is whether ND will remain at 5/8ths forever or go full. Eventually, the latter will be done. It is just a matter of when. You have hit on something that is essential to the equation that was not applicable in 1970 or even 1980: the status of of non-revenue sports with the administration. The ND administration sees NR sports the way UNC, Dook, and UVA do, the way Ivy League schools do: very important and worth being promoted a great deal. ND's administration is never going to make what would amount to a football-factory decision. ND's basketball and non-revenues will never be placed in a non-Major conference, even if the football boosters were unanimous in demanding just that so football could go back to being independent. [/QUOTE]