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Message: [QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 1224533, member: 2585"] [B]"That is a [I]tangible[/I] benefit to a school that insists on a national schedule"[/B] 1. Tangible how? Being well known? (Do you really need this in the age of digital media? Do you think ND would fade from the national conscience because it plays 1 or 2 less games on the west coast?) Recruiting? (You're ND. Should be fine. We get kids from the west coast and never play over there). 2. The school insists that it's important. Why? If Syracuse insisted on a national schedule, we'd add a west coast team and a mid-west team to the OOC and be done with it. (East and South are covered). [B]"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)."[/B] [B][/B] 1. Full membership gets you the same thing. 2. It also gets you one more quality chance at a highly ranked team on a neutral field (that could be the difference in getting you into the playoffs). [B]"ND gets to keep all of its money from New Years 6 bowls and keeps its NBC deal all to itself."[/B] Finally some honesty. It had better be about money. That's a hill you should die on. So... to re-asses my previous post: "No tangible benefits from independence. Limited advantages to semi-membership in the ACC. A lesser chance at playing for a national championship. [I]If that's the kind of tradeoff you want to make for cash, good luck[/I]." [/QUOTE]

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