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Does anyone think ND will be forced to join the ACC full time as the next move by a P5 conference.
NO, NO, NO. Absolutely, positively, NO.
No one has ever, ever, ever, "forced" Notre Dame to do a single thing.
The LAST thing that the Big Ten (and all of the other power conferences outside of the ACC) wants to see is for Notre Dame to join the ACC on a full-time basis. Everyone might want ND to join their *own* conference, but no one wants to see ND join a *different* conference. That's why the power conferences will put up with ND's independence in perpetuity. ND joining the ACC makes that league into a financial powerhouse in the same hemisphere as the Big Ten and SEC. There's zero reason why Jim Delany (who would see his East Coast plans for the B1G blow up in smoke) and Mike Slive (who would now have an equal money-making competitor in the Southeast) would ever want that. This is something that I've seen way too many fans miss over the years.