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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 842472, member: 71"] You need to keep in mind that what the ACC will get from ND in this arrangement (four football games each year, split evenly home and away, spread equally among all conference members) is far better than anything the BE got from ND. Additionally, the ACC is not so limited in bowl tie-ins that ND being available during stray years to one of those bowl committees won't force the second or third best team in the conference down to a worthless bowl bid. Having the possibility of ND in the mix may in fact add another reasonably good bowl tie-in to the mix (as opposed to where we were when without being able to offer ND we had no shot at any top tier bowl beyond the guaranteed BCS spot. Finally, if in eight to ten years the ACC could land Texas in a deal similar to what ND received, the result could very well be similar. Adding ND with their partial football arrangement killed the BE, something that benefited the ACC greatly. Landing Texas woul;d deliver a very similar blow to the B-12, who along with the ACC is fighting for the fourth spot in what most believe will eventually be a four conference top level of collegiate athletics. I don't like the ACC, ND or Texas but the above scenario is very plausible. [/QUOTE]