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Message: [QUOTE="DPCuse, post: 4957026, member: 1309"] I think you are exactly right. Decisions in higher education are made looking out 50, 100, 200 years. They aren't thinking about the payback over the next decade or two. They want to position themselves long term with the cream of the crop and reputation is everything to a school. In their view, an SEC conference delivers that. And they are willing to suffer in the short term to benefit decades from now. Especially if you have donors lining up to pay your exit fee. Now...here is where I think they are being fools. The landscape is going to change. NCAAF may not exist as we know it 5 years from now. So this may get solved for them without forking out $572M. Wouldn't that be hilarious if they paid it and then it all blew up and they were included in an elite tier of programs anyway. [/QUOTE]