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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 4174523, member: 3399"]
I didn't answer because I thought it was not a real question but an snark attempt to just bash ND.

ND's other sports are not ND football and do not have the history of overcoming the Michigan/Big Ten attempt to boycott/quash the program, having to barnstorm across the country and acquiring fans all over the USA.

ND people care a whole hell of a lot less for the other sports than for football.  Basketball at ND comes in a very distant second place, miles behind ND football.

Basketball to some ND fans is just something between the end of football season and beginning of football season.

Lots (not all, but some) of non-alumni ND football fans are fans of Indiana, Purdue, BC, etc. basketball, historically.  Irritated Hoosier and Boilermaker fans call such local ND football only fans as "reversible jacket" fans.

ND basketball was an independent from the 1896 until 1995, when it was no longer feasible and was no longer in ND's best interests for basketball to remain an independent.

I miss those days.  My favorite days of ND basketball were the 1970's when it was independent and played national games on NBC (Dick Enberg, Al McGuire and Billy Packer) against UCLA, Marquette, DePaul, Kentucky and Louisville, among others.

More is the pity basketball is no longer independent.  I wish it were so.

In conclusion, football matters much more.  It has the clout.  Basketball doesn't.

Football has different history and has built up fans all over the country.

Apples and oranges.

ND believes that an independent football platform is the best vehicle to recruit athletes and the general student body and the best way to promote the program and the school nationally.

Football generates lots of money.

Football is independent because it can.
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