For other sports needed. For football not necessary as long

as the money still comes! The current CFP deal and NBC contracts tells us independent football will be fine. ND's deal with the ACC was primarily for bowl tie-ins and make sure they had a conference for all their other sports when the old Big East broke down. The 5 annual games they guaranteed the ACC were split H/H so the ACC TV contract gets 2.5 ND games per year. The Big 10 TV contract could get the same advantage if we could work out an independent deal with them and then we'd be in the Big 10 for all other sports to match our Big 10 hockey conference affiliation.