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I don't know that Notre Dame's sports will suffer significantly if they stick with the non-football playing members of the Big East. Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, and Notre Dame are all pretty strong (routine tourney teams) and Seton Hall, St. John's, DePaul, and Providence all have good histories and are much better than the bottom half of most conferences. If they add Xavier and St. Louis (as has been mentioned), they are in a lot of good markets (St. Louis, Chicago, D.C., Philly, NYC, Cincy, etc.)
Still, I agree with your point. Either Notre Dame is not a firm no yet or Jim Delaney is just getting off on all of the attention the Big Ten is receiving. We know that Missouri and the Big East schools would say "yes!" before the offer was out of his mouth and, I assume, Nebraska is in the same boat.
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