Notre Dame’s announcement came with both the usual

Notre Dame’s announcement came with both the louis vuitton outlet usual caveat and a twist. The Irish will join the A.C.C. as a full member, by 2015 at the latest but preferably earlier, in all sports except for hockey and football. Notre Dame will, however, play five football games each season against A.C.C. teams, some of which, like Miami and Boston College, are already regulars on its schedule. The Big East requires universities to provide 27 months’ notice in addition to a $5 million exit fee. But Syracuse and Pittsburgh paid a higher fee to switch conferences earlier — they become members in July 2013 — as did West Virginia when it moved to the Big 12. Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said the university planned to implement its five-game A.C.C. football commitment in 2014. “Notre Dame as an institution fits so much better with Virginia and Duke and the A.C.C. schools,” said Gene Corrigan, a former Notre Dame athletic director and a former A.C.C. commissioner. “It will be different than what we’re used to. But everything now is different than what we’re used to.” Throughout Wednesday’s news conference, Jenkins insisted Notre Dame was “all in with the A.C.C.” All in, again, meant except for louis vuitton ofcial website football, the driving force behind the move. Notre Dame, long courted by the Big Ten and other conferences, paid particular attention to the rest of the realignment that occurred over the past year. In particular, who to schedule, and how, seemed like a potential issue. As conferences grew bigger, the total dates available for nonconference opponents shrank. The A.C.C. filled five slots automatically and will allow Notre Dame to gain exposure along the East Coast, away from the university’s base in the Midwest. The conference also offered a more permanent home should the Fighting Irish later decide to join a football conference. The A.C.C. moved to discourage a departure by increasing its exit fee to three times the conference’s operating budget for financing championships and other projects, a fee that would currently be about $50 million. “If something should change, we’re committed to the A.C.C.,” Swarbrick said. “We would expect this to be the home, if we made a change. But our intention louis vuitton official handbags is to remain independent.”