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[QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 1236374, member: 2673"]
The five guaranteed ND games per year and the access to the Gator and Capital One Bowl Games that the ND arrangement brings to the ACC helps the conference.  Would adding the additional 3 games to get to full membership at 8 be better? Sure.   We may or may not get there at some point.  It's going to be hard for ND to make the football playoffs without a Conference Championship game win.  Perhaps independence is more important than championship access.  Time will tell.  The rest of ND sports programs help too because it's a quality overall athletics department.   I don't want to see the ACC sit in this arrangement for forever, but for now it's fine.

The issue with the Big East was not that Notre Dame was a partial member.  They had the same membership as Georgetown, Villanova, Seton Hall, Providence, St. John's, Marquette, and DePaul.  They were just another one of the Catholic basketball schools in reality.   For football, ND is why the Big East had access to the Gator Bowl for a while.  So that helped some.

I don't think that the ACC will sit at 15 indefinitely.  Hopefully the launch of a network will create some possibilities.  It's being worked on.  When they announce it is anyone's guess.
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