re: Why do the Big Ten and others not force Notre Dame to join or die?

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Fun fact: Notre Dame plays 3 away games next year- North Carolina, Purdue, and Syracuse.

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And the MOU starting next year puts them in easier than any team in football.

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That's not really true but go ahead and tell yourself that if it makes you feel better about the Big 10 being the villain.

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The PAC 12 was STUPID enough to join.

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Why do the Big Ten and others not force Notre Dame to join or die?

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The SEC and Big10 can do nothing to force ND to join a conference. Only the ACC can. IIRC ND's deal with the ACC states that if the Irish join a conference for football before 2036 it has to be the ACC. IF the ACC wants to survive after its GOR expires then it needs to force ND to join.

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And the MOU starting next year puts them in easier than any team in football.

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The committee would just have manipulated it to move ND below 12 this year if that was in place, once they decided it was Bama and Miami. It’s meaningless.

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USC fan trying to duck ND just like their pussy coach. Go figure.

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Join a conference and schedule the game in September like everyone else or don't expect special treatment.

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If they burn the bridge with ACC, which they seem all in on doing, the P4 conferences need to fully black ball them until they join a conference. Not a single game on the schedule going forward.

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Sankey wants ND to be independent. Better that than having them join the B1G. Big 12 and ACC don’t have enough power to force anything.

Individual schools / programs are going to do what they want. There’s benefit to playing ND, in terms of ticket prices/exposure, and a resume boost opportunity. For as much as Texas wants to complain about the Ohio State game, the ND game got Miami into the playoff. If everything else played out exactly the same but Miami played FAU instead of ND, they would not be in the field.

You must be young. UM and ND hate each other. ND would join the SEC before the BIG.

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If the Pac 12 would have signed that media rights deal instead of completely overvaluing that they were worth it would not have fallen apart.

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By then it was too late. The "overvalue" was partially because that it what was needed to keep the conference competitive with B1G and SEC.

The PAC died because:

1. It could never poach Texas. This move might have saved it but they weren't going to let Texas have a LHN that they were sold on.

2. They kept ownership of the PAC Network. Where the SEC and B1G partnered with ESPN and Fox respectively, the PAC decided to keep total ownership of their network which made negotiating with cable companies extra tough. They should have sold half to Fox day one, which would have kept Fox interested in keeping the conference alive. I would argue the real date the PAC died was the day when DirectTV decided to never carry the network. That was the day this mistake was made obvious, they got greedy wanting all the upside of the network and were left with nothing.

3. They got arrogant about their location. They thought being isolated on the West Coast made them safe, so when USC started pushing for uneven payouts they told USC to frick off because no one imagined USC really had options due to geographic limitations. A USC in the Big 12 was ridiculous, and that was the only conference nearby. The B1G poach that ended it was maybe the single most stunning move in conference realignment to date.