(06-23-2022 09:42 AM)GoBuckeyes1047 Wrote:  

(06-23-2022 09:13 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(06-23-2022 08:24 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(06-23-2022 06:54 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  The Pac-12 is going to be substantially ahead of the ACC as the #3 conference financially when this is all said and done.

If that happens — and tbh, I’ll believe it when I see it — what a devastating indictment that would be of the ACC’s financial strategy/leadership.

I think the ACC made a poorly-time long-term TV deal. Whether that's an indictment of ACC leadership is an open question.

That being said, I'll continue to state that the Pac-12 remains perpetually underrated on this forum due to recency bias in the CFP era. The Pac-12 has multiple large affluent markets where it has a complete P5 monopoly, key marquee brands like USC and UCLA, top academics, and a lineup of institutional, cultural and geographic fits.

The Pac-12 has *always* been the #3 league in terms of long-term conference realignment value in my mind. This is just a matter of the TV rights market finally catching up to that reality.

If the PAC-12 does become a distant #3 league (B1G/SEC *Gap* PAC *Gap* ACC/Big 12), would it be reasonable to see the ACC try to add Big 12 teams to try to separate themselves from them, add security to the league/prevent poaching from B1G/SEC, and eventually set themselves up to catch the PAC-12 when their current contract expires? All of this assumes adding teams wouldn't decrease TV revenue per team.

The bolded is the crux of the issue - I don't think that scenario exists for the ACC.

If it actually existed, the ACC (or the Big Ten or Pac-12, for that matter) would have added Big 12 schools last year when every single school in that league was calling/begging for spots in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC. The fact that none of those conferences lifted a finger outside of forming their Alliance (particularly with the Big Ten and Pac-12 heading into a year with negotiating TV deals that could immediately monetize expansion) speaks volumes.