In case you missed it, ND isn't in the Big10 because, A) they dont want to be, B) they are d-bags. It has nothing to do with the Big10 not allowing them in.
The only way to get ND into a conference without blowing up the rest of college football would be for a revamped BCS system that would not allow for rules that apply only to ND that there currently are.
Wouldnt this have been funnier had our biggest rival been literacy? The way this joke is stated now, NU is the literate ones fighting agianst illiteracy which is the way most civilized nations work.