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Teel as we've seen is well-connected to the ACC office.  This article might have been floated as a trial balloon to see what the constituency thinks (along with an endorsement from a significant figure but not an ACC decision-maker so they can plausibly deny the ND partial invite if necessary later on).  
 
I could live with the partial invite IF ND held up its end of the bargain.  They had a similar deal with the BE but never played the games they said they would and weren't prepared to play the whole conference (just Pitt and the tri-state teams).  If they agree to a partial invite, there needs to be a minimum of 5 games a year rotating through the conference.  They don't get a free ride to the Orange Bowl and no stealing the secondary bowl tie-ins.  There should also be some guarantee on ND's part that they will participate and pay into whatever academic consortium the conference puts together.  I think if you want ND to eventually join a conference, you've got to make it so that it becomes increasingly difficult for them pull out from it in the future.  I don't think you'll get ND to agree to a 5-year plan for deciding on whether to to become a full member or leave.  The arm-twisting doesn't seem to work, as the B10 has seen.
 
Finally, if this re-opens the ESPN contract for negotiation, then I think that's another major point in the favor of partial membership.
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