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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 288659, member: 127"]
Notre Dame has always been controlled mainly by its Chicago alumni boosters who consider themselves the traditional core of ND. Many in the ranks of their national alumni derogatively call them the Chicago mafia or mob. There has been a longtime power struggle within their ranks - Chicago with their numbers and big $ has usually won but not without hard feelings and working towards a more decentralized and national power base. Those Chicago alumni would fight tooth and nail against an ACC affiliation but their power has being challenged.
 
ND and BC have a long relationship and is really their only Catholic institutional "friend" in the BCS football world.  It wasn't enough though to lure them into the Big East for football when BC was in it. The Catholic ties can't be ignored, it's why the Big East was an attractive destination for their non-football membership. If they go to a conference for football they would have to relinquish some power and control of their own destiny - not an attractive solution for them unless absolutely forced. They have always considered themselves a unique institution so they look for unique resolutions.
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