...or your memory of events.

In 2003, when the ACC ripped into the Big East, Notre Dame was written into the Big East bowl lineup even though it was not required to join the conference or even play a minimum number of games as it does now in the ACC. While Notre Dame could not take away the BCS slot it could grab the #2 Big East bowl, the Gator, which it promptly did that same year. It got beat down by NC State.

A few years later it nearly happened again and no other football school in the Big East liked the deal.

To rub salt into the wound of dealing with a prima donna that did nothing to earn the reward, Mike Tranghese, then Big East commissioner, put Notre Dame solely in charge of Big East football expansion. A school that was not required to play a single Big East game and had a very vested interest in keeping the football side of the BEC from growing, lest it break away and wreck the Olympic programs in which Notre Dame did participate.

Oh, and just to add another bit of WTF for the Hokie readers, Notre Dame being added to the Big East in 1995 was the reason Virginia Tech was not allowed in. Same went for Rutgers. The Big East had just said it was stopping at 12, when Notre Dame was invited and Virginia Tech and Rutgers were on hold and far more deserving of an invite as full members.

You may be decent and upstanding Terry, but Notre Dame isn't, to many people.