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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 2134516, member: 1615"]
Your view is odd.  The Big Ten has been chasing ND for decades, including this last round of realignment (especially in 2010-11 when sportswriters were praising Delany as a genius and saying he may have "checkmated" ND).   That is hardly a big secret.

ND rejected the offer in 1999 and has been making moves all along (Big East in 1995, ACC in 2012) to keep football and basketball out of the Big Ten.

ND is not going to join the Big Ten ever in any sport other than hockey.  I doubt it would have chosen the Big Ten with a sweetheart deal over the Big East and then the ACC, because it doesn't want to be regionalized as a Midwest school only and it wanted exposure along the Atlantic seaboard for recruiting and other reasons.

There will never be a time in the future when ND will have "interest in being part of the conference".  The money is not the main issue for ND, so that is not the most relevant factor.

You act as if ND would have come running to the Big Ten's arms if a partial deal like the ACC or Big East had ever been offered.  That is not correct at all.

I was responding to Sea Blue's post but don't want to hijack this thread any further.  My apologies.
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