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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 2696754, member: 3609"] ND wants less than no part of the B1G. Apparently, there's a [I]lot[/I] of bad history. If you go to [URL='https://ndnation.com/boards/index.php?football']their hard-core board[/URL], you'd see they are pi$$ed that their hockey team is forced to play in the B1G (and have the "B1G" logo on their unis) because something happened to Hockey East. Their alums largely live in the Northeast, Florida, and Chicago. That makes them consider themselves an East Coast school that just happens to be in the Midwest. That's also why they were in the Big East for the time that they were. Unless and until they get shut out of the CFP in a year they believe they deserve a bid because a conference champion was taken over them, they [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][U]will not join any conference for football[/U][/COLOR]. This idea overrides any argument any outsider may try to make about "what I think makes sense". The B1G would/actually did insist on their joining for football as well; we did not , so they joined the ACC. If they join a conference for football before 2026 (and maybe it's now 2036 because of the ACCN) they must join the ACC per their agreement to join for the Olympic sports, and they have no problems doing that because they feel very comfortable in the ACC. There's a very remote possibility they may join for football as the Baby Boomers die off, but that's very remote. As one of our board gurus has repeatedly said, Texas was offered the "ND Deal" by the ACC before it was offered to ND and turned it down. They won't turn it down if offered again. The Big XII can't enforce the Grant of Rights against Texas if they've been disbanded. And there's absolutely no freaking way that UMass, UConn, or any school east of the Mississippi has more to offer the ACC than Texas does. Don't ignore the Longhorns as a potential #16. CousCuse, you put a [U]lot[/U] of thought into your posts. The problem you face in these discussions is everyone connected with ND has a totally different thought process than you do when it comes to what to do with football. [/QUOTE]

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