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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 3441468, member: 3399"]
My Big Ten discussion (I hate them with a white hot passion, by the way) is based on the following assumptions from this thread:

1) Covid forces all P5 conferences to play only conference games in 2020;

2) The ACC uses this to present a "join in full or suffer in 2020" ultimatum;

3) Covid  and the ACC ultimatum forces ND to seriously re-consider its entire situation.

If these things force ND football into joining a conference, it would be foolish not to look at making over a half a billion or so extra dollars over 15 years  in the process, GOR be damned.

Does anyone seriously doubt this?  Does anyone think that ND will not consider this half a billion dollars in its calculus?

Some of you think that ND is "greedy" when it makes less than everyone else.

What do you think that ND might do when presented with a chance to make a half a billion more?

Don't just assume that ND will meekly say "OK, you got me."  and just join the ACC in full without exploring something unexpected.  It has done it before (NBC deal, Big East deal, ACC deal).

Did anyone see those deals coming?

I mean, if ND is forced to surrender to a conference, it may as well get paid as much as it can for its surrender.

I think that all bets are off if the ACC forces ND into this situation under these circumstances.

One of the main reasons that ND is in the ACC is that the latter did not require football.  Remove that...and force ND football into a conference, you can be sure that money will talk in that scenario.

Once things like this start, one never knows how things end up.  That is my only point and is based on 1-3 above.

I don't think that I am discussing anything outrageous or controversial here.
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