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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4899764, member: 3850"] [B]Plenty of references to Notre Dame's contractual obligations to join the ACC if they join any conference before 2036...[/B] [I]It all goes back to the ACC deal that Notre Dame has. The deal states that Notre Dame competes in the ACC for most of their sports, like basketball and baseball, while football gets to remain independent. The caveat is that they have to play five ACC teams annually in football. [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/why-the-notre-dame-acc-marriage-of-convenience-may-evolve-into-a-meaningful-relationship-beyond-2020/']This deal goes through 2036,[/URL] and during that time period, the only conference Notre Dame can join is the ACC.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://slapthesign.com/2021/07/30/notre-dame-football-stay-independent/[/URL] [I]First, I start with the suspicion that Jack Swarbrick might not mind the Fighting Irish entering the ACC as full members. He started them on this path as members for the Olympic sports, with five of the twelve football games scheduled by the ACC. He included in that deal (or agreed to include) that Notre Dame would have to join the ACC if it entered a conference before 2036, seemingly tilting the playing field in the direction of the ACC. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.uhnd.com/football/2022/07/04/is-acc-membership-better-for-notre-dame-football-than-b1g-mega-conference/[/URL] Almost everything from that story can still apply to today, changing world and all. If Notre Dame were to join a conference in football before 2036 — a deal concurrent with the league’s grant of rights — it would be contractually obligated to join the ACC. But Notre Dame has long made the calculation that the financial gap between independence and conference membership is not significant enough to sacrifice the prestige, freedom and ownership that comes with being able to call its own shot. (Swarbrick [URL='https://www.ndinsider.com/story/sports/2021/07/18/conversation-college-sports-notre-dame-athletic-director-jack-swarbrick/8002103002/']told the South Bend Tribune last week[/URL] that “we were as challenged financially as any school in the country” because of COVID-19, but it’s hard to see that lone year dictating the football program’s future identity.) [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/2732745/2021/07/27/notre-dame-the-elephant-in-the-realignment-room-loves-its-independence-thats-not-likely-to-change-not-even-for-truckloads-of-money/[/URL][/I] [I]Should Notre Dame decide to join a conference full-time before 2036, it would be required to join the ACC, with which it has a contract that currently calls for the Irish to play five league games per season.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://abc7chicago.com/4988420/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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