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[QUOTE="Bryanw1995, post: 4672937, member: 9107"]
That's certainly ONE reason, and it's a big one.  However, the fact that they were able to secure $31.6m per year in the current choppy economic climate with a bunch of left-behinds and g5 callups speaks to the depth of the big 12.  You don't have to worry that Wake Forest or Oregon St have a great year and kill the CCG ratings in the big 12, they're basically interchangeable.  Their deal isn't too far behind the ACC's ($5m? $10m maybe?) right now, and there's a decent chance that they pass the ACC up by 2031.

The ACC has FSU, Clemson and UNC, but you guy also have WF and BC.  Subtract those 3 from the top, don't even take out any other schools, and the new big 12 is a good distance ahead of the ACC.  If you guys had grabbed UCF, Cincinnati and UH while they were available?  Maybe WV, too?  Things would be different.  However, a lot of the ACC Presidents think like B1G and Pac Presidents, and they sometimes put such a high priority on the right Academic fits that they inadvertently hurt the Athletics part of their "Athletics Conferences".

Interestingly, and contrary to popular opinion, the big 12 and SEC also consider Academics, we're just more apt to make an exception for an elite Athletic school.  Memphis was flat out told that their Academics were too poor for the big 12, and they're working diligently on that as we speak.  The SEC allegedly only considers Athletics, yet 3 of our 4 adds in the past 13 years have been AAU, more than doubling our total number of AAU schools.
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