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It's been an awful move for ND athletics by garbageplate

Our football schedule is now diminished significantly by the half-dozen boring games (other than Clemson for now) every year. The benefit of being in the ACC for basketball has dissipated now that the league sucks, which crushes our SOS. It's also a horrible cultural fit and we have to deal with home cooking from the crooked Tobacco Road officials in all sports.

If Jack had been forced to make a decision purely for basketball and purely based on strength of league at the time of the decision, then I agree that it would be silly to criticize him. There were myriad other factors in the decision, however, and many sensible people recognized the move as terrible at the time it was made. It sucked then and it sucks even worse now, but at least Brian Kelly got to pad his wins and get a hefty pay day.