FSU may or may not leave the ACC; just as any school may or may not leave a conference. What my posts have been primarily directed at is the idea that schools will just jump willy nilly from one conference to another whenever a few more dollars are available. There is more to it than that.
Reasons for FSU to leave are basically more money in the current TV contract. they get to create there own eastern division to play every year, thats miles ahead of play duke and wake ever year.
Reasons for FSU to stay in the ACC: cost of ACC withdrawal fee (20 million); the b12 will ront 10 o that 20. additional costs of travel in Big 12 (have seen estimates of 2-3 million per year)they would be in a division with wvu/clem/gt/lville/tcu/miami for example, thats not a travel issue at all. also the b12 has in place travel $$ makeups where a school like wvu will get an extra amount or travel costs to texas if things stay as there are right now. anything rumor wise you see on travel is bs.; having to give up playing either Miami (unless Miami also goes to the Big 12) or Florida because Big 12 has 9 conference games and if FSU played both would have room for only one patsy per year both would be easy to keep on the schedule, miami in division and florida as there big ooc game; hardship on athletes and their academics due to longer travel for conference games not an issue with a eastern division fsu gets to mold, your reaching for thoughts to why not...; hardship on fans as far as travelling to Big 12 away games as opposed to ACC games same as last comment; academics (of course, only a factor in my simplistic analysis...FSU is really a football team with a University attached to it so who other than a few misguided souls gives a hoot about academics)if the acc is torn apart, what academics? b12 isn't bad btw, it has some aau schools, its not like its cusa; easier path to BCS championship/playoff thru ACC than Big 12 b12 is harder, but that also gets you a bid or sure, winning the acc doesn't mean you would get a bid if bama/tex/usc/tosu all won there conf's. can't get left out like that, major butthurt then. making your own division as su would they would have a good looking path to play ok/tex most years in the ccg(the way they view it).
A wash; being Texas' b*tch or that of Tobacco Road.texas makes more $$ and atleast cares about fball, bacco road cares about bball, thats a different in bitch*s Probably better in the ACC because despite the issues about this to date no ACC teams have left the ACC while Texas managed to drive away a good chunk of the Big 12 in the last two years. Devil you know as opposed to the one you don't.
Now I do not have any high level sources, imagined or otherwise, just what i think are common sense arguments. Can people conjure up the death of the ACC? Sure and maybe the Mayans are right and none of this will really matter. i am the death cartoon from family guy when it comes to the acc