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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 667443, member: 1615"] But you are not factoring in ND's goal to portray itself as the national, Catholic university, a football independent that has control over 7 games a year to schedule wherever and with whomever they want. That identity, that marketing ability for the school (not the football program) is more important to ND that more TV money via the Big Ten or an ACC Network. Big Ten people thought ND was about the most TV money and in 2010 thought that all they had to show was ND could make more money via the BTN and ND would run to the Big Ten. They were wrong. ND had no interest in simply making more TV money by joining a football conference. It has other goals not shared by most other programs. [/QUOTE]