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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 1053055, member: 3399"] ND was looking for a partial deal with either the Big 12 or the ACC. It wanted out of the AAC, pronto. It was going to sign a partial deal somewhere. Texas and ND are pretty chummy and ND wants a Southwestern presence. If the ACC had not given the partial deal, Deloss Dodds would have made sure the Big 12 did. Now, I think that ND used the Big 12 talks to leverage the ACC into a partial deal. The East Coast and Southeast recruiting grounds are definitely where ND wanted to be. But, if the ACC had not blinked, ND would have likely signed a partial deal with the Big 12. It was not going to stay in the AAC, was not going to join any conference full time and was going to use the Big East/C7 as a last resort. [/QUOTE]