Did Notre Dame always know the Big 10 was trouble?

Because they participate in other sports as an ACC member, I assume.

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Because they participate in other sports as an ACC member, I assume.

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he means as to why they always refused to join the Big Ten...

Because the Big 10 wouldn't accept the cucking that is partial participation and would have forced ND to join and give up some of that sweet independent NBC TV money. The ACC however? They're into that.

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Exactly. When ND affiliated itself with the ACC the Big 10 was arguably at its strongest. I just want to know why.

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Probably because the ACC let ND join in all sports except football. Big Ten wouldn't take ND unless football was included.

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Probably because the ACC let ND join in all sports except football. Big Ten wouldn't take ND unless football was included.

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this...

Sometimes you have to give a little to get a little. The ACC deal with ND is looking genius right about now if things hold.

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But, Notre Dame is splitting their money from their TV contract with NBC with the ACC.

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Right and the Big 10 told them to frick off with that bullshite and share all the money or kick rocks.

Always been about egos and attitudes.

Notre Dame wants to stay top dog. Big 10 has had Ohio State and Michigan forever, and added Penn State a couple decades ago. Notre Dame would never be above them, it would be a 4-way at best.

Then, when Nebraska came, and has shown no signs of life, that was probably something Notre Dame noted. Kinda like watching Arkansas in the SEC.
Strong program comes in, can't establish solid footing in the new schedule/recruiting, drops several tiers in prestige. National prominence is destroyed.

That's the danger of super-conferences... you might think if the SEC takes Oklahoma, for example, it's all hunky-dory.
Oklahoma's CLEARLY ahead of, say, Auburn, right?
Well, Auburn has been traditionally a team with more losses, but they've also been a team brawling through an SEC schedule.
Oklahoma has been a team owning it's conference, like Nebraska had been.
You come into a new mix, you might find out you aren't competing with Alabama at the top, you're competing with A&M, Arkansas and Miss State to say out of the bottom.

Notre Dame in the Big 10, wants to compete with Ohio State for dominance, but you get Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan, and then several others coming at you every year. They could end up like Nebraska, great history and playing for 5th place.

The history of hate between ND and the Big X is long and intense. In the beginning, Ohio State and Michigan blocked ND’s entrance to the new Big X. Since then, ND has saluted every overture from the Big X with a giant middle finger.

ND will never join the Big X. I’m sure they’re praying that the ACC will go ahead with fall football so that the Irish can rub it in.

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Now would be the time to make them join the ACC.

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Nothing at all can be done until 2036. The Irish/ACC contract runs until then. One of the stipulations is that if ND joins a conference in football, it must be the ACC.