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[QUOTE="domestu, post: 4745080, member: 1089"]
ACC commissioner Jim Phillips claims adding California, Stanford and SMU will "strengthen the league in all possible ways," but bringing in three schools that do not offer competitive upgrades in football and basketball actually weakens the conference. The Pac-12 disintegrated because of the financial gap the league had in television payouts with the SEC and Big Ten. The late addition of two Pac-12 schools that were left out of the recent conference expansion is an act of desperation that really weakens the league. The ACC expansion highlights the financial concerns that the conference's top football programs are worried about and does nothing to address this issue by adding three members that water down the overall strength of the conference. The members who voted against this expansion must view this decision as a measure that will only hasten their desire to depart as soon as the financial payout for leaving decreases. Instead of strengthening the league, the recent ACC expansion undermines the conference's foundation in many ways and guarantees that it will become a second-rate football conference in future years.
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