re: Big 12 Courting Notre Dame - Does the SEC Offer?

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The reason Notre Dame to the Big 12 makes sense versus the Big 10/12 is because the Big 12 doesn't split revenues equally. In essence Notre Dame could keep their TV money like the longhorn network. The reason Notre Dame is seriously considering it is for the other non revenue generating sports. They need a conference with some validity in those sports. All about the money.

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This. They will be free to negotiate for their own network and get their share of the conference tv revenue. I believe that their current deal with NBC runs thru 2015. At that point, who knows what the landscape will look like. Hard to imagine the Big East being a major conference anymore and the ACC has potential to breakup, so I doubt that those options will be attractive enough. Plus, playing in Texas at least twice a year can't hurt their recruiting.