(02-24-2013 10:47 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(02-23-2013 01:14 PM)Chappy Wrote:  Notre Dame
Texas
North Carolina
Virginia
Georgia Tech
Kansas
Missouri
Duke
Syracuse
Florida State

Anyone outside of the above schools would surprise me.

Obviously, ND does not want to join a football conference.

If ND is "forced" to join the Big Ten, that conference will have to deal with thousands of pissed off ND alumni and fans who will hate that conference even more and root passionately that their "conference brethren" lose every game they play, every bowl game, every OOC game.

Many will actively hope that the conference they are in implodes and dies. They will despise their own conference and consider themselves "behind enemy lines".

ND will be a malcontent in any conference that "forces" them to join. The anger and hatred will be palpable for a generation, at least.

Some may think that I am overreacting to this and represent the "outlier" example of an ND fan who hates the Big Ten, or that ND fans will be pacified little sheep who will happily and unthinkingly fall into line and be joyfully assimilated Borg into the Big Ten.

I don't think so. I think it would be like the Republic of Ireland annexing a million raving, angry Northern Irish Protestants by hostile force against their will.

It would be an ugly "marriage".

Why in the hell would anyone want this? It boggles my mind.