ND folks view joining a football conference as a disaster......
It could have made millions of dollars more just by picking up the phone and calling Jim Delaney.
There has never been any chance of that. More TV money is just not important enough to ND to join a conference.
It will join a football conference...but only IF the P4 champs only playoffs come to pass.
That will be a seismic event for ND.
I don't think that other fans appreciate the internal cataclysm that will cause ND.
Donations will drop by a good bit and a segment of the fan base will quit following ND football for good.
It will be surrendering 128 years of identity and tradition to "the enemy"...... the conferences and the networks.
The only thing worse would be if ND football had to join the Big Ten.
That would have been like the Bataan Death March.
That is what people on the outside of the ND bubble never have understood.
It has never been about the most TV money or anything like that.
It has been to preserve ND's football independence against outside forces (at almost all costs) who do not have ND's interests at heart.
That is why ND and its fans hold so tight to football independence.
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Posted: 05/07/2017 at 11:17PM