When Pitt and Syracuse left, many were expecting the Big East to match or surpass the ACC on a per team basis when the contract came up for negotiation in September 2012. The ACC was locked into a long-term deal that virtually everyone but you and a handful of Syracuse posers thinks is way under-market. The ACC's best path to getting a market deal would have been to merge into the Big East, not do what they did. Now, despite adding Syracuse and Pitt, the ACC is about to get raided and has an under-market deal.
The right move for everyone was to sit tight, and see what the Big East would get from NBC. The Big 12 did it, and look how it worked out for them. I think the OBE would have gotten close to $20MM an all=sports school. If it started to look like NBC wasn't going to come through, then the Big East schools could explore other options. Jumping in September 2011 was the worst outcome for everyone. Stupid all the way around.