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Message: [QUOTE="JPS, post: 355960, member: 501"] The football playoff will be a factor as to whether ND needs a conference home as much as the new tv contract they will have to negotiate. The exposure they seek for the ND fan base is/was a huge factor in all of this. Playing games in NY- NJ market, MD-DC, And Boston are important to them. Add in games in southern cities like Atlanta and the like, and now you are adding to the ND alumni and fan base areas. Playing against the ACC's finest is all good to them. Plus they still have room for their traditional rivalry games. They may have to juggle some and make certain concessions, but they can keep the games. It's a huge bonus all the way around. They weren't to keen on some of the new members of the big east and adding those games would have been less than marginal tv wise. It was equally risky with b1g. They felt the ACC school locations and tv markets were far better in the long run for all of their sports. [/QUOTE]