he said Notre Dame would be an exception...
"If they weren’t in the AAU — Notre Dame was not in the AAU — if they weren’t in a contiguous state, and if they didn’t have AAU, and if they didn’t bring a lot of value, there was no interest in the Big Ten expanding again. However, Notre Dame was an exception to that. They approached us a number of times, in the ’90s and early 2000s, to begin a conversation. That was a conversation we engaged, but it was never at the end finally fruitful. It just wasn’t.”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4670414/2023/07/13/notre-dame-big-ten-jim-delany/
Now, you try actually including some kind of source for your posts.