all the talking heads, coaches, etc feel ND should join a conference, would there be any benefit if ND and the other five current Independents drew up some documents that create
the Independent Conference, perhaps in name only with no real obligations to each school, other than the two teams with the best records playing each other the last game of the year and calling it a conference playoff for that "ever important" 13th game? I'm sure the nation would laugh if ND were ever to play Liberty for the "championship" but it would be a left handed way of "joining" a conference.