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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An internet sports writer suggested that Notre Dame's motive for pushing hard to get Stanford into the ACC is an attempt to preserve Notre Dame's strength of schedule by getting Stanford into a Power 4 Conference. Strength of schedule is a factor used by college rankings services which is important for getting into the 12 team college football playoff.[/quote]

I am not sure how Stanford helps strength of schedule given how mediocre it has been for the last several years, and it will be worse for them without the PAC12 portion any longer.

Someone has it hard to get Stanford into the B1G...I get it, but what is in it for the B1G? Their secondary sports would all fall to Stanford every year and their football team and alumni base adds nothing to the B1g (it is so relatively small even compared to Northwestern)[/quote]

[b]They add academic value and a potential lure for ND[/b].[/quote]

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Agree. Stanford adds academic prestige, research prestige, is a wealthy school, the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose media market and can legitimately but the top recruits under NIL. Plus, adding Stanford to the Big Ten Conference makes the entire West Coast Big Ten country for viewership and for recruiting.[/quote]

Absolutely. In addition, there are also many Big Ten alumni in the area.  The need to have 6 teams on the west coast will also push the B1G to take Berkeley as well.   Don’t kid yourselves either, most Big Ten presidents want the academic prestige of Berkeley in the conference.  The conference really prides itself on having great academic schools (save Nebraska).  [/quote]

Love your post, but wonder about Cal's athletic department debt which is approaching half ($500,000,000) a billion dollars.[/quote]

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