The ACC focused on academics first, basketball 2nd, and football a distant 3rd. But football drives the bus these days. The BEast finally learned that lesson, after 2 raids by the ACC, and 2 more by the Big XII. You'd have thought the ACC learned it as well. But they didn't. So they're now learning it the hard way...

The ACC schools that are primarily football schools should be driving conference politics, since they bring in 80% of the ACC's income. But that isn't the case. The ACC is ruled by a cartel in North Carolina. The football schools are getting tired of carrying all the dead weight in the ACC that have no real interest in playing football - while wielding all the power...

The ACC's football schools can earn far more money in the Big XII...