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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4339983, member: 3850"] When it comes to media contracts and sports survival as an athletic conference, the academic aspect took second place. The ACC knew they had to fight to survive. They needed to shore up football or become known as a basketball league (with which the Tobaccco Road crew seemed comfortable)...The conference did get the last chair in the Autonomous 5 separation. That Prez could have been FSU's Barron. When there was a booster push in 2012 for FSU to join the Big 12, President Barron emailed all boosters that he and he and the faculty thought that the Big 12 was "a league that was academically weaker". Swofford and the ESPN rep came to Tallahassee in 2012 to talk to the Trustees. On a one to one basis to skirt Florida's public meeting record law. FSU had been holding out...FSU was the lone GOR holdout. And the Academic profile is still good...UCONN would be #11 in the ACC in USNWR rankings even with Louisville in the drag position. [/QUOTE]