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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 1684958, member: 1615"] There is also this from yesterday: "When looking at the value of a Tier Three package, you really need to look at where a university pulls its students. Some schools draw nationally and have a smaller group of local students. Most state schools, on the other hand, draw primarily from an area of about three to four hundred miles around the university. Let’s look at two ways schools have handled this same situation differently. Notre Dame is located in Northern Indiana, just east from Chicago. [B]While it definitely has a local presence and is quite popular in Chicago, particularly on the South Side, its alumni are in two main bands. The first resides within the metroplex from Boston to DC, an area of nearly fifty million people nowhere near South Bend, Indiana. The second grouping is on the West Coast, namely California. Compare that with Notre Dame which only has 35% of its students from the Midwest, even less from Indiana, [/B] [B]When Notre Dame considered how to work its sports conference affiliation, being tied to a Midwestern or Southern conference made little sense[/B]. Instead it made a deal with the ACC, to play five football games a year against the conference, which had schools up and down the east coast, including Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia. The rest of their football schedule allowed them to ensure they kept games against USC and Stanford to keep their West Coast ties, while the rest of their non-football sports would bundle up within the ACC’s Tier Two and Three media deal with ESPN, where all of their men’s and women’s teams would be featured on the East Coast. [B]It is a perfect match for what the university is trying to market.[/B]" Another reason that it seems unlikely that ND football will join the Big Ten. [/QUOTE]

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