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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 284812, member: 780"]
Alot of interesting stuff, but its obvious you don't get it. You are trying to present the ACC case. It'll fail.
 
Why? Because ND is the national Catholic university and the Catholic (esp Irish-Catholic) population that supports it is centered in the Midest and to a lesser degree the East Coast from Boston to DC. Playing UNC at ND once every other year is not equivalent in the minds of these people as playing Michigan home and home. To suggest it is, is clever but dishonest.
 
Michigan's relative size or Purdue's has never been an issue before. Now its a barrier to ND joining the conference that tradition and geography and proximity of the fan and alumni base make the obvious choice?
 
Much of the ND mystique is based on tradition and the glories of the past. Leon Hart and George Gipp and whoever else didn't play against Clemson or Wake Forest. In fact, the only case one can make for ND continuing to play usually lightweight Navy is tradition. It matters hugely to them.
 
The only person who seemed to feel that ND might join te ACC was NCSU's President, Fox, who had come from ND. Turns out she was as clueless as you might expect. Academics have a poor sense of how and why athletics works.
 
And the final card is this ... The States in the ACC footprint are largely fundamentally anti-Catholic. I don't think ND wants to be anywhere close to that sentiment on a regular basis.
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