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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OlegeezEER" data-source="post: 131730175" data-attributes="member: 1835316"><p>As it stands now moving to the Acc would be a revenue loss but the Big 12 isn't going to make the same amount of money without having Texas and Oklahoma in the mix. Without these two schools the the next contract would fall below what the acc makes. Outside of the current money there really isn't anything desirable about the big 12. It has the smallest demographic footprint. There are no options to increase it unless you are willing to invite G5 schools which the Big 12 has already balked on. The big 10 and the Sec are the conferences seating at the head of the banquet table. Wvu has very little to any chance of landing in either one. The Acc is probably the best option available. It wouldn't be as bad as people think. It would reunite old rivalry's. It would give us a chance to create new ones which the big 12 doesn't'. It also gives us exposure in areas we are trying to recruit in which the big 12 doesn't. When you look at the performance of a conference you don't look at just 1 year you have to look at several. For the most part the Acc has been average but so has the big 12. In the last 5 years Clemson and Oklahoma have been the teams carrying the flag in either conference. Clemson has won a national championship and has blown Oklahoma out twice in head to head competition. Most of the southern areas of the Acc have growing populations and the northern areas have large metropolitan areas with lots of tv sets. 4 of the 5 states currently in the big 12 have very little population growth. The acc has it fair share of problems but if some of these schools were to get the right people in charge they could probably push the ceiling quite a bit higher than it is now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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