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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1163162, member: 2141"] I agree that ND will only join a conference if it has no other way to ensure itself a path to the football playoffs and that the ACC is ND's preferred destination. Thus, assuming that ND does have to join a conference, would a B1G with members in the Northeast and Texas plus lower Olympic Sport travel costs as ND can take a bus to schools in IL, IN, OH, and MI than the ACC (assuming they West Virginia, Cincinnati and another school or two)? ND's football team would get 2 east coast games a year (alternating home/away games with Penn St, Maryland, Rutgers, and UConn), and an opportunity to play 1 game every other year in the south central (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska) and still have 3 to 4 (assumes an 8 game league schedule) open slots for it's rivalry games with Navy, USC, etc. Pods East: 1) Maryland, 2) ND, 3) Penn St, 4) Rutgers, 5) UConn North: 1) Indiana, 2) Michigan, 3) Michigan St, 4) Ohio St, 5) Purdue West: 1) Illinois, 2) Iowa, 3) Minnesota, 4) Northwestern, 5) Wisconsin South: 1) Kansas, 2) Missouri, 3) Nebraska, 4) Oklahoma, 5) Texas Each team schedule: 4x Pod games, 3x cross-pod games with 1 from each pod, 1x 'open' game with pod leaders playing each other (semi-final) & everyone else assigned, 1x optional conference champion game for 2 teams (semi-final winners) = 8 league games, 3 or 4 OCC games. As for the contract, it's ND, I am sure there is a loophole or an out clause in the ACC contract somewhere just based on the experience that the Big E had with ND. [/QUOTE]

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