(07-18-2017 04:45 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  And potentially lose out on yearly USC/Stanford/Navy matchups and the annual matchups of Florida State/Clemson/Pittsburgh/Miami/Boston College? Not happening. Joining the B1G, or any conference, is not in the best interest of Notre Dame, nor does it provide more value.

Notre Dame is a nationally elite university. It's athletic program is a function of its mission. While Notre Dame were to bring incredible valuable to any conference it were to join, no conference can provide the same value that Notre Dame desires with its independence. It's as simple as that.

The last part is true ... because they've arbitrarily defined it that way. While I'm sure that Notre Dame, like many east coast private schools, can conjure up some statistics that don't actually matter to anything, like acceptance rate, to "prove" how elite they are, the real fact is that Notre Dame isn't even as highly ranked as some of the public schools in the Big Ten.

Sure, it's a great school .... so are Washington U STL and Carnegie Mellon, neither of which play football games against teams from across the country.

Nine Big Ten games, and USC/Stanford/Navy every year if it requires Calif every year, or replace Stanford with a rotating opponent if not. Perfectly doable.

But they never will, because of emotion, not logic.