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[QUOTE="sabach, post: 1224500, member: 866"]
What are you talking about?  What ND has now allows them to play USC/Stanford, Navy and four other schools nationally.  That is a tangible benefit to a school that insists on a national schedule.  Limited membership in the ACC allows ND to have five guaranteed scheduled games per year with the conference.  Going forward that will be important as the P5 conferences schedule less and less outside of the P5.  Limited membership in the ACC gives ND access to all of the ACC bowls.  Without it, the only bowls ND could get into would be the playoffs and years in which there were not enough bowl teams from a conference to fill its allotment (like last year when the Irish had no bowl arrangement and were lucky the Big 12 could not fill the Pinstripe Bowl).  ND gets to keep all of its money from New Years 6 bowls and keeps its NBC deal all to itself.  Your post is amazing.  Most people complain that ND's deal is unfair because they get too much and give too little. You seem to think that ND's deal is so bad it is causing them to die for tradition.  I will acknowledge that semi-membership in the ACC has disadvantages in access to the playoffs for ND in years it finishes at 11-1 with no conference championship.  But that is hardly something that is going to cause the ND football program to die on tradition.
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