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[QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 418713, member: 830"]
The academic reasons to accept or not accept a school into an athletic conference are just leaders of academia trying to make it sound like they are not just trying to chase money/make an athletic based decision to appease the academic nerds associated with the school. Unless you are the Ivy League, does it really matter if you are taking a school ranked 90 as opposed to 50? In the grand scheme of things, is Vanderbilt being hurt from an academic prestige perspective because they are associated with Ole Miss/LSU/Miss St? Is Stanford or Cal really going to be hurt because they took Utah into the Pac-12? And anyone who cares about schools rankings outside the top 25, and more likely outside the top 15, needs to take a second look at what the rankings really mean to them.
 
As for the stat that was shared that the ACC and Big 10 are basically tied in the average rankings at around 50, and as the dominoes fall, one will come out on top by a few points...... really, who the hell cares? those rankings are very subjective and there is probably no material difference between a school ranked #30 vs a school ranked #80
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