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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1052043, member: 1145"] Yes, ND is very happy with Louisville in the ACC. First, it means ND is not totally isolated, because IN borders KY (and Louisville is the heart of what is known as Kentuckiana: basically the Louisville TV market, which includes several counties in southeastern IN). ND also had developed a fierce basketball rivalry with the Cards and a growing baseball rivalry. And ND likes the idea of football games at Louisville, because they will be essentially like ND playing at BT teams - in terms of geography. Louisville in the ACC makes it very easy for ND to play only 1 BT team per year. As for academic rankings - Louisville is a school that until fairly recently was funded by the state as if it were merely a regional open admission university. Increased state funding, which now recognizes that KY is best served by dual top funding, means the UofL will have steady rise in academic rankings. The school's freshmen ACT scores have already risen, over about 5 years, from 22 to 25. And that is before increased funding and ACC membership could help improve such scores. A UConn fan with sense (if such a thing exists) will be bothered that ND would prefer Louisville to UConn and will castigate UConn for its many failings, including the lawsuits. My guess is that ND looks at that mess much the same way that BC and I do: as proof that UConn and CT state leaders are like ambulance chasing lawyers and thus totally untrustworthy. Beyond all that, Louisville got in ahead of UConn primarily for 3 reasons: Louisville has much more football history; Louisville, with much better facilities and more fans, has much more football upside; and because KY borders OH, IN, and IL, adding Louisville was a shot back at the brow of the Big Ten. [/QUOTE]

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