What it thinks "it gains" has to do with more than football
ND sees its football program simply as the marketing arm of the university.
ND sees itself, its identity, its core, its "brand" as "The National Catholic University".
Father Edmund "Monk" Malloy called ND's core as "private, Catholic, independent" when it turned down the Big Ten's membership offer in 1999.
It tries to play a national schedule because it recruits nationally and its fans are spread out all over the country, sure.
But..It uses the program's notoriety to attract students from all over the country, and uses football to schedule games all over for that (and other) reasons.
Playing an 8 or 9 game conference schedule handcuffs that goal.
So, non-football goals and "gains" factor in here, maybe more so than lots of other schools.
[Post edited by TerryD at 05/11/2017 1:40PM]
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