How To Get Notre Dame Football in the Big East

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We have heard the ravings of an old man. We have heard the lunacy of the "Conference That Time Forgot." We have seen how a conference perceived by some to be "sleeping at the wheel" can all but cripple a conference, and we have seen how grabbing teams from another conference in order to save your own doesn't always have the bang-for-the-buck a conference president thought it would have.

Still, after all that has unfolded since the 2003 raid by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on the Big East, there are people calling for conferences to expand, reconfigure, and split apart. I will give you that some of it makes great geographic sense.

And honestly, who wouldn't love to see the Big 10—otherwise known as Rip Van Winkle—wake up and grab a 12th team and stage a conference championship game?

With all due respect to the Big 12, the only two conferences that can pull off the conference championship game and make it a successful, money-generating event are the SEC (of course, as we see it in play now) and the Big 10.

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