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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5606392, member: 173"]
Good point, I forgot about the Big East.  The biggest issue with going back to the Big East is football scheduling.  One of the advantages to Notre Dame of the arrangement with the ACC is half their games are set each year, so they don't need to scramble to find 12 opponents every year.  They are trying to spin that as a huge value that they bring to the ACC (which does admittedly have value) - but its not irreplaceable value since school could be pushed to schedule more P4 games to replace ND games and Notre Dame is conveniently ignoring the value that deal brings to them.

Conceivably they could join the Big East and set up a scheduling arrangement with another conference - but by definition Notre Dame would be negotiating from a position of weakness.  And I doubt any conference would want to throw them a lifeline when the desire would be to have Notre Dame join for everything.  Notre Dame burned the Big East, is currently threatening to torch their deal with the ACC...I think the idea the incremental approach will succeed in getting Notre Dame to join a conference dies if/when they leave the ACC.  Everyone is going to take an "its all or nothing, baby" approach to negotiating with Notre Dame from that point.

I think you're correct in your ordering - but rejoining the Big East is so far behind staying with the ACC that Jim Phillips would need a telescope to see it.  And everything else is equally far from rejoining the Big East.  At some point the ACC will pat Notre Dame on their heads, give them binkys (in the form of some minor scheduling adjustment most likely)...and we'll all move along.
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