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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4899812, member: 71"] 1 - There is no mandate. ND never would have agreed to that. 2 - ND realizes that eventually they will have no choice but to join a conference for football. They will continue to avoid the question as long as possible and will attempt to remain independent for football until their agreement with the ACC expires, making them a free agent that can go out to bid when the time comes. 3 - I find it very humorous that someone who has been preaching for quite some time that one of the ACC's full member schools should not be required to honor a contract that they freely signed is now chiming in on the contractual obligations ND signed into. Bottom line, shy of some unimaginable shake-up, ND will not join a conference for football until after their current agreement with the ACC expires. I personally believe it's bullspit that others have always been willing to accommodate ND while ND takes advantage of them but as long as conferences (initially the BE, now the ACC) are willing, ND will continue to take advantage. [/QUOTE]