Notre Dame’s preferences, in order, are: 1) Status quo. 2) Join a 12-team Big Ten. 3) Join a 16-team Big Ten. 4) Be “left behind” in superconference era. It’s hard to believe they’d be so short-sighted as to reject #2 in hopes of preserving #1 when that makes #3 or #4 overwhelmingly likely. Then again, they did give Charlie Weis a 10-year contract.
On top of the Charlie Weis thing there is also this AND the fact they gave you a law degree. Their judgment isn’t always sound 🙂
Heh.