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I admit on paper the football teams look weak by DBCooper

Perhaps swapping out G Tech for Florida would improve the football a bit and take out an ACC team. Unfortunately the ACC has more top rated schools than any other conference.
As I mentioned, I’m all for considering a Wisconsin or Texas as well.

I just hate the idea of joining the Big 10 and would like to see a conference that at least on the education quality is close to ND standards.

I rather stay Independent, but the NCAA is trying to force ND’s hand. If they are going to try to force a conference on us I rather it be a group of schools that make sense for ND and they help dictate what schools represent that conference. No group would be perfect.