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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4735401, member: 6535"]
One thing I'd be doing if I were the ACC, the Big 12, or even just a school that doesn't have an invite lined up, is paying consultants with a background in media deals, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and game theory. I'd put them in a room together and say game this out for us, what would you do if you were the B1G or the SEC? What would you be hoping we didn't do if you were those two? What would you do if you were the SEC? And at a school level perspective, what do we need to do to maximize our chances of landing in one of those conferences or making our conference the #3 spot and protecting access to the playoff?

I think the Big 12 has done this to some extent, given their consideration of trying to lock down as many basketball powerhouses as possible to say, "If you try to have a basketball national championship tournament without us, it'll be a joke and everyone will know it." As a poker player, that struck me as being a pretty good game theory oriented defensive response. It also struck me as protecting some semblance of future leverage. If the Big 12 pulls that off and the B1G/SEC try to steal away and create their own March Madness, they need the Big 12 - is that worth a seat at the football playoff table? Maybe!

Meanwhile the ACC seems to be reactive instead of proactive.
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