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Message: [QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 4171884, member: 2585"] Whoa! Lots of presumptuous blathering here. 1. The ACC is non P2 now. Sometimes I think we wrongly equate money with wins. The SEC isn’t a power because of money alone. It’s recruiting areas and money. ND just lost their HC for this reason, I think? 2. What if the big teams bug out and decide to just start paying players? ND cool with that? 3. We’ve gone around and around on the value of independence. It makes little sense to me outside of the positioning and clout the P5 [B]allows[/B] you to have as a “free agent.” It’s cute, but if it comes down to it, the P5 or just a couple of conferences could cut off the playoff to you. 4. I think ND would strengthen the ACC. I think the ACC would be a good partner and keep a relatively easy path to the playoff while getting more money. [USER=652]Alsacs[/USER] is right in that the B1G would happily gobble you up and you’d be worse off power-wise, but richer. If the donations to the school dry up completely, that is more of an indictment of the people donating and ND’s commitment to it’s actual values than anything else. I’d call that bluff if I were ND. 5. I think it’s convenient that you use “business sense” when it’s convenient and “mission” when it’s not. Someone said you can’t love two masters… is ND doing what’s best for itself financially or what’s best for it’s mission? Joining the ACC doesn’t help or hurt the mission per se, but it does help stabilize a sport against the greed that is driving it. Maybe over a cliff (regional sport, paying players, etc). I could make an argument that ND is uniquely positioned to do something good for the sport if it got out of its own way. But I guess it’s moot vs $$$. [/QUOTE]

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