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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 284944, member: 1145"] WE'll start with your final assertion. It is, of course, historically inaccurate, unless your definition of anti-Catholic is merely not having large numbers of Catholics. The riots against Catholic neighborhoods, churches, schools, orphanages, nunneries, etc. in the US did not occur in NC or VA or SC. They occurred in most northern states. The Catholic Church is booming in the Atlantic coast South, at the same time that parishes by the dozens close every year in the upper midwest. Just to cut to the heart of the ACC, a new Cathedral is being built in Raleigh, and a new seminary is being built between Raleigh and Charlotte. The Catholic population of NC has doubled in less than 20 years, and all signs indicate that the high Catholic growth rate in NC, VA, GA, SC, and FL will continue for the foreseeable future. And in the South, Catholics actually attend Mass and take seriously what the Church teaches. As ND's subway alums are almost uniformly Catholic, the seriously decaying Catholicism in the upper midwest is not going to provide the next generation of ardent Irish TV fans. ND and the ACC have had a close relationship working on issues relating to cleaning up athletics issues, including academics and major college athletics back to the late 1960s. In fact, the issue that might have been the final insult that led SoCar to leave the ACC, the ACC voting to ban jock dorms, proved a particularly close tie as ND and the ACC then led the class for the NCAA to ban jock dorms. If you think that one academic administrator at one ACC school is the only ACC tie to ND and the only person with power at an ACC school who thinks that eventually ND will be an ACC school, then you are ignorant of not merely the ties in the past but the negotiations earlier this century when ND was ready to join the ACC for all sports but football and even to join for football as long as it could play a reduced football schedule. Your understandings of ND football traditions are limited. You seem to think that Michigan is as often played a series as Navy, SoCal, or even Pitt. But ND has played Michigan only 39 times. To compare, ND has played GT 34 times and played Pitt 65 times. ND has played Miami 24 times, and the series was ended in 1990 because of Dennis Erickson's thug teams. If not for the Convicts era, ND would have played Miami more than it has played Michigan. There are only 2 Big Ten schools, Michigan St and Purdue, that ND has played more than 40 times. And Michigan is the only other Big Ten school ND cares to play. When Michigan led the boycott of ND, keeping most Big Ten schools from playing ND (Purdue was the only one that kept playing ND regularly - Mich St was then not in the Big Ten), ND was forced to turn to the East, to play teams from the East coast, playing them on the East coast more than in South Bend or Chicago. That move is what made ND football great. [/QUOTE]

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