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Except the only way ND joins a conference is if they keep their exclusive NBC deal (which I'm sure blows every other team except Texas' TV money away by lightyears) which means when we re-negotiate our TV contract ND games will not be shown, which means it is a moot point.
If Penn St joins the ACC then the only thing adding to the value is... Penn St.
I'm not saying they wouldn't come if ND came, or maybe they could talk to each other and say I'll go if you go, but I doubt they get any more money. Isn't the Big 10 already the highest paid conference with the Big 10 network?
The ND deal is apparently about $9 million flat fee. It was a lot of money back in the day, but it has fallen behind the other deals now on the table. The ACC deal before adding Cuse and Pitt was $155 million, or about 13 million per team.
That comparison does not include whatever ND gets for away games or its portion of the Big East contrast, but it puts ND's supposedly golden NBC contract in perspective.
Past its NBC contract, the main benefit of its independence was its special standing for BCS bowl games. It only needs to be in the top 12, IIRC, and it gets all the BCS money to itself. However, it's also found out that it loses all that BCS money too.
ND does face an issue with scheduling their four big rivalries though: Michigan, MSU, Navy and USC. If they kept all those series going while in the ACC, all their non-conference games would be booked every year. They would need to make a couple of those rivalries occasional instead of every year.