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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 1053776, member: 3399"] They still don't put THAT much emphasis on the other sports. ND does not have a separate basketball practice facility and plays in an arena that is 46 years old. ND baseball has faltered since Paul Mainieri left for LSU. ND made a couple of uninspired hires from Evansville and BC since then. All non-football sports have to have donors come up with the cost of constructing new facilities. Meanwhile, ND has committed $450 million to upgrade/expand Notre Dame Stadium. I think that the ACC deal had more to do with 5 late season games, minor bowl access and playing in the Southeast regularly for football recruiting purposes than it did with the other ND sports programs. I am not saying that the other sports were not a factor, they certainly were, just that football aspects of the deal were more important. [/QUOTE]