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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 4171814, member: 3399"]
If ND surrendered independence in football to fully join the ACC, it might be a bigger fish for a while but in a smaller (ultimately non-P2), rapidly drying up pond.

It would have more influence in the ACC, but at the cost of around $40-50 million a year until the day the P2 poaches the still far behind ACC.

I think that even if ND football joins the ACC, the latter is not going to survive long term, not as a P5 type conference.

Even if it did, that move would lock ND out of the P2 and cost ND hundreds of millions of dollars, and still require ND to surrender football independence.

So, what business sense does that make for ND to surrender football independence to the lowest bidder for a number of years just to quite possibly end up in the Big Ten anyway (or be locked into a long term disadvantage) ?

I guess someone needs to spell out to me how this is ND's smartest possible move in realignment.

It seems the better course of action for ND would be to renew the NBC deal (hopefully for lots more money--especially if NBC snags a Big Ten deal and cross markets as announced) and try to stay independent unless/until the day it has to surrender football independence.
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