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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame at 18, tied with Columbia and only one behind Cornell.

Notre Dame is Ivy level. [/quote]

Almost, but not quite![/quote]

Notre Dame would never want to join the Ivy League anyway! It is happy to be ranked right there and fully independent to print football $$!

The Ivy League isn't all it is cracked up to be. Georgetown wouldn't even give up its basketball TV $$ to join.

Remember that the ancient 8 really is just an old but now low-level athletic conference![/quote]

um, yeah sure..
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[b]No chance[/b] ND or Georgetown would accept an invitation to join the Ivy League if they were asked now. Way too much money and visibility in big-time college football and basketball. [/quote]

Where's the invitation?[/quote]
Invitation wise, schools interested in joining a conference softly reach out to member institutions and conference administrators (for recent examples of how it works in practice, look into the USC and UCLA moves to the Big 10 and Texas and Oklahoma moves to the SEC). Actual invitations from a conference are the very last step once a deal is essentially done. ND and Georgetown wouldn't consider those informal communications because of the value they place on football (ND) and basketball (both).

I think you've misunderstood the larger point that the "Ivy League" is about sports and could change (like when they almost added Army and Navy for football reasons in the 80s). For some reason, people think they are just the best schools period without understanding what ties them together. Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, and Vanderbilt are other examples of private schools that value top academic reputations but wouldn't consider Ivy League affiliation. "Poor" Stanford was practically begging to join Maryland in the Big 10 this year to no avail.
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