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[QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4358132, member: 55"]
The exit fee is what it is.  Even if they are paying the same exit fee that a football playing member would pay, $100 large is just not going to stop a generational (if not permanent) move.  The GOR might  stop a team that had pledged its media rights for football.  Oh, just to take one example, FSU.  But Notre Dame could shut down all its sports but footballl, much less just have them shut off from television, and if they wanted to go to the Big Ten to play football it wouldn't deter them.

Everyone else pledged football media rights.  Those schools going this many years early is a horse of a totally different color.  As for the agreement not to join anywhere else, how do you show damages?  ND just says we never would have joined the ACC, we just would have stayed independent (which is almost certainly true), and then what are your damages?  Three lost games a year where ND would be your opponent?  Trivial, and they could still give you those games as OOC games if they want to.

I think you are being sincere here, and you've never thought of this before.  I'm so sorry.
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