Originally Posted by
Tazman10
Butler, Xavier and Creighton came after Notre Dame backed out. But that illustrates how they still wanted to maintain the Christian, private school conference, not Catholic but Christian.
From Wikipedia
Butler University was founded by members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), though it was never controlled by the church. The university charter called for "
a non-sectarian institution free from the taint of slavery, offering instruction in every branch of liberal and professional education."
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013