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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 1037728, member: 1615"]
I tend to think that "threat" is overstated, but that is another topic.

It is the idea that ND got some advisory opinion from the playoff committee that "blindsided" them or made them "panic" into a sudden course reversal this quick over the thing most fundamentally important to them that I find very doubtful.

When have you known ND to be blindsided or outflanked at the negotiation table?

Jack Swarbrick was credited with brokering the playoff deal in the first place.  The conference commissioners picked him to go to the podium to announce the deal.

He has done a great deal of work the past couple of years setting up the partial ACC deal and the ten year renewal of the NBC deal (which doesn't start until 2015).

The idea that he was completely in the dark of the implications of the playoff deal and spooked by some advisory opinion (from a dubious source) into abandoning one of the pillars of ND's (not just its sports) identity so fast is doubtful, to me at least.
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