re: Notre Dame Athletics Director: "We want to play SEC schools"

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Funny that they suddenly want to play SEC schools. They've made zero attempt to do so in the last 20 years.

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Well, they are a Catholic institution, and the Southeast is like 99.9% Baptist--there's just not much of a benefit in playing in this region...not much of an alumni base for them here and not that many potential recruits. When they started playing LSU back in the 1970s, it was specifically mentioned that LSU had the most Catholic students for a public university in the country (which may have translated to: ND could use the LSU series to dip into New Orleans for some recruits).