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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 667244, member: 1615"]
I certainly agree.  It is an intense mutual disdain and dislike.
 
In this case, though, it is not a good thing.  That is why the "ND belongs in the Big Ten" crowd is dead wrong.
 
Other than being located in the Midwest, ND has nothing much in common with the Big Ten.
 
ND will not join the Big Ten, even though it could earn the most TV dollars and cut its travel costs the most by doing so.
 
The Big Ten is the absolute last place ND ever wants to be.
 
It thinks it will be "regionalized" there as a Midwest school.
 
Many of ND's students, fans and alumni and located in the Northeast.  It wants Northeast exposure for that reason and Southeast exposure for recruiting and access to major markets  there (Atlanta, Miami).
 
ND would be a bad fit in the Big Ten, being only one of two private schools in a huge, land grant public school conference.
 
ND believes that joining the Big Ten would place it under the thumb of Ohio State and especially Michigan (who rule the Big Ten), the latter school being considered the mortal enemy of ND.
 
ND doesn't want to join any conference in football. But, if it had to, it much prefers the ACC.
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