You don’t know that

ND is obviously comfortable leaving lots of dough on the table, we’ve done it for years.

If we abandon our 100+ years of independence, it won’t be because of money. That’s the game everyone is playing. Let everyone else prostitute themselves, like USC, who obviously thinks nothing of forcing their athletes to fly across the country in order to compete. The money grab is beneath us and we treasure our independence too much to cheapen it in this way.

Money is not an issue. We recently raised $440M with ease for Campus Crossroads.