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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 288926, member: 780"]
The problem with trying to understand what ND will or will not do for us outsiders is that we really don't know at least two critical pieces of information.
 
The first is WHO gets a vote on the ND side. I believe that the administration of ND had every intention of joining the Big Ten or they wouldn't have gone all the way through the application process. The Big Ten wouldn't have allowed  them go through the application process only to (embarrasingly) decline in public without a lot of "agreement in principle along the way. Stuff like that is always agreed to in private first and the public part of it is "Kubuki Theater"  for the benefit of the public. What ND didn't do in 1999  was get the buy in of the powerful fans (The Chicago Mafia?) who give the school a lot of money. They now know that e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y has to buy in. (My experience is with the U. of Maryland where they have to bring the powerful Terrapin Club along with them on e very decision or pay the consequences. Just ask their ex-AD and ex-Chancellor about the Bob Wade as basketball coach debacle.)
 
Because SU doesn't have this large group of outside interests, the SU administration doesn't have to check with anyone or build any kind of consensus.
 
The second missing piece is WHAT they will consider in making a decision. We tend to think that schools are really just businesses and that they will seek their own purely economic interests. I have seen enough of academia and universities to know that isn't always true. And in this case, its a bunch of priests involved. They have a view of the world and what important that not many others have.
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