They didn’t have the 5 game requirement in the BE and didn’t have any interest in the BE football conference, so they would have no need to recommend expansion teams. Their only concern was having a place for non football sports. If you can go back and look at old TSL posts during ACC expansion, when it looked like the ACC was going to take Miami, BC, and Cuse, a lot of fans were unloading on ND’s deal with the BE. I don’t fault ND for doing what they’re doing by staying independent. It’s what makes sense for them right now. I am just making the point that the ACC, right now, almost seems as dysfunctional as the BE was in 03, sans the non football members the BE had. Funny thing is, if the BE could have held together, it was and would have been a better fb conference than the ACC.