Every one of Frank the Tank's realignment posts is some version of a league is going to do something out of pride, and now this other blogger is jumping on the same bandwagon. Both show a lack of business knowledge.
The ACC negotiated the best contract they could. What the Big East gets has much less impact on the ACC than what the SEC or Big 12 gets, since both of those leagues are very significant threats to raid the ACC, while the Big East really isn't. Syracuse and Pitt had to know the ACC deal was going to be soft while the Big East had a shot at a strong deal with NBC when they left the Big East. Part of why they left, IMO, is that the ACC had a lower risk of a complete meltdown than the Big East did, even if the money came out the same. For the most part, that prediction has come true.
The only fly in that ointment for Pitt and Syracuse is if the gap between the ACC and SEC or Big 12 is so big that VTech, UNC, FSU and/or Clemson aggressively pursue an invitation from those other leagues (which I believe has already happened), and the SEC and Big 12 have enough incentive to expand. The Big East has nothing to do with them until the ACC is raided by another league.
