Media value, Football strength, then basketball strength, geographic and population area, all go into conference considerations. The ACC may lose 2-3 schools max to the SEC/BIG. Rice won't get an interview.
It probably should be that, but it's never that clean and easy to start something that big. Mainly because of media and GOR contracts in force with the conferences and non-consistent stop dates. It's all about the revenue streams!
The only reason the PAC split up so easily was their media contract was ending and they had no Grant of Rights given to the holdovers. This is what binds the ACC now from having teams leave. The new MWC just had their remaining teams sign GORs to lock them in from going to the new PAC.
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