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Message: [QUOTE="dwalks93, post: 1568817, member: 5598"] The SEC and Big10 have excellent commissioners. Every move Delany and Slive/Sankey made has increased revenue. They have approached their conference as joint, equitable business venture and have made pure business decisions in regards to expansion. Their members place incredible trust in the advise of their commissioner and he leads the business. Rutgers did not make sense to a lot of Big10 fans...well, until their schools got its Big10 pay check this year. The Missouri and Texas A&M expansion produced a huge payday for the SEC. Bama may be the best football team in the country but it is funded by cable boxes in Missouri and Texas. The ACC has the worst commissioner. The ACC has shown no vision and has only grown by devouring the Big East. The ACC's methodology for expansion has been a combination of territorial protection/personal vendetta (BC wants to be the only P5 program in NE) and power struggle between the football and basketball teams (FSU/Clemson wanted Louisville for football and threatened to leave if they did not get their way). The ACC controlled the NY market and failed to retain it by not keeping UConn and Rutgers. Swofford has allegedly made promises of an ACCN to FSU and to date, he has not produced on those promises. The ACC botched the selling of its T3 rights and the ACC is drastically unpaid compared to the SEC/BIG. Now teams like FSU are arguing for a larger revenue share and Swofford is probably just dumb enough to consider it. Instead of the growing the revenue pie, Swofford is more likely to try to unevenly distribute to keep the football schools happy. Simply put, the ACC should be far more profitable than it is and there does not seem to be the loyalty in the big football schools. I suppose if you live by the sword... The Big12 is the biggest mystery. They have always shown the most individualist approach (each team selling their own T3 rights) so the commissioner was more of a mediator and less of a CEO. Per Boren's comment OU wants more of a Big10/SEC model. That means expansion is based on profit, not which non G5 Texas team had the best football season last year. WVU is infinitely better in football than Rutgers but Rutgers can make more for a conference. OU wants a whole new business model. It may be too far along for the B12 to change but if they do, the ACC will be the big loser. [/QUOTE]

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