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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 1523759, member: 44"] You're cute. The spending war in college athletics isn't going away in the foreseeable future. As the differential below grows there will be more pressure for the most desirable teams to move to the higher earning leagues. The pressure will be felt most keenly by private institutions since they don't have a state to make up the differential between them and the highest paying conferences. The ACC, then, is ripe for movement. Only the potential carrot of a conference network has held it together. I doubt that holds up post the Big 10's new contract. [B]Conferences – By highest total average revenue 2009-2012[/B] [U]Conf.[/U]....[U]Total Revenue[/U] ...[U]Total Expense[/U]... [U]Football Expense[/U] Big 10 ---- $86,423,474---$78,717,221----$20,630,720 Big 12 ---- $82,727,759---$75,680,959----$19,765,214 SEC... ---- $80,859,162---$76,362,188----$18,982,916 Pac 12 ----$67,793,292---$66,286,549----$18,934,897 ACC...---- $65,437,575---$68,434,818----$19,447,062 American $39,845,559---$39,675,640----$12,062,451 [URL]http://winthropintelligence.com/2013/09/30/comparing-revenues-expenses-aq-conferences/[/URL] Credit for compiling the data in above chart and for the link to reference article to [USER=1632]@Confident Carl[/USER]. [URL='http://the-boneyard.com/threads/aac-revenue-in-black-although-way-behind-p5-conferences.52650/']Link[/URL] [/QUOTE]