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[QUOTE="billybud, post: 667713, member: 3850"]
Nope.....Who could swear? But the Irish signed a very explicit contract that said that if  they were to join a conference, it would be the ACC.
 
Why sign it?
 
Because that would be what the Irish would do if they had to leave independent status. And they won't have to IMHO.
 
And, because no one in South Bend now underestimates the booster and fan dislike of the Big Ten as a home.
 
It is ancient history, but the Big Ten rebuffed the Irish desire to join the Big Ten for years. Hints of bigotry were circulated. Older boosters remember and tell younger boosters. It is part of the culture now. The tension between the Irish and the Big Ten has always been there.
 
And now, with the B1G's Gee making statements that many took to be anti Catholic and just more of the same, it added another layer. Add in Hoke's "chicken" comment and it is just another brick in the wall along with widely circulated public slams against Notre Dame made by Bielema when he was Wisconsin HC and by JoPa at PSU.
 
Myself...I have enjoyed the FSU-Notre Dame games and lo0k forward to future ones.
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