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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 284982, member: 780"] I'm an SU fan so I'd prefer that ND join the ACC if they were to stop being an independent. But, in trying to be intellectually honest with myself, its clear that the Big 10 is the odds on favorite. The ACC is a huge underdog. I find your arguments to be specious. You're not trying to be intellectually honest. You are just selling. Good grief! Of course there were no Anti-Catholic riots in the South. There weren't any Catholics in the South to speak of. Why would the good citizens of Charleston or Atlanta riot against a group that wasn't present. Do you not know that or are you being deliberately dishonest? Parishes that are closing in the North are those in neighborhoods that have transitioned. Most Catholics have move to the suburbs and Catholic churches are being built there. Did you not know that or are you being deliberately dishonest? "Seriously decaying"? Where are you getting that nonsense from? In our parish there are lines of people taking religious instruction to become Catholics as they flee the mainline Protestant Churches particularly the Episcopal Church. Did you not know that or are you being deliberately dishonest? Of course, RC churches are being built in the south with the influx of nothern Catholics. Its easy to have a high growth rate when your starting point is near zero. Did you not know that or are you being deliberately dishonest? You are selectively choosing the two schools that ND has any kind of history with that are now in the ACC. Please list the number of times ND has played Maryland, Florida State, Clemson, Duke, UVA , VT, NCSU, etc, etc. You get the point. And I doubt if ND has any interest in playing Miami again given the Catholics vs. Convicts history. In spite of your weak attempts at obfuscation, you still haven't addressed the points. You do understand that Notre Dame is in Indiana close to Chicago and that Indiana does not touch the Atlantic Coast at any point. The proximity of the Big Ten schools to ND greatly simplifies the travel costs and time associated with all of their men's and women's teams. You must know that ND has a long history playing midwestern schools. And that if you take GT and Miami out of the mix the number of times they have played the current ACC schools they have played is miniscule. You should know that ND went all the way through the application process with the Big 10 including a vote by the faculty to accept the invitation. And finally, you do know that Catholics were targets of the Klan along with blacks. And that the majority of Protestants down there still harbor negative feelings about Catholics in general. Stop with this nonsense. [/QUOTE]

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