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There are only two reasons Florida State University should not seriously consider any future invitation to join the Big 12 Conference.
Basketball.
And academics.
Both are better in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Carolina-based, major-college sports league in which the Seminoles have competed for the past 20 years.
But neither really matter.
Not in Tallahassee. Not to many, if not most, FSU alumni. Not enough, anyway.
Not when compared to football.
Bottom line: FSU is, above all else, a football school — primarily because football has done so much for the school's national brand and bottom line.
And the ACC is a basketball-first conference.
As evidenced by the addition of Syracuse and Pitt. That was a basketball first consideration.
I'm a basketball guy as you all know, but clearly, football dominates the FSU fan base by far. FSU has run its course in the ACC IMO. Not b/c we aren't dominate, but b/c the ACC is mediocre in the dominate sport of football.
The Big 12 or the ACC .... which conference is thought of more as the football powerhouse conference? Pretty obvious it is the Big 12. If FSU wants to bring home games that are attractive enough to put fans in the seats at Doak, being in the ACC is not going to do it. There have only been a handful or two ACC games at Doak of significance. The games that have brought more excitement to Doak have been the OOC games such as Miami when they were in the BE, always the gatros (their ...) aka crocs, ND, Oklahoma, maybe een USC and Colorado to a degree.
As the article points out the ACC is getting beaten by the SEC schools when it comes to recruiting. I don't see that trend reversing any time soon.
As I have said before, if the Big 12 called today, I'd take it in a heartbeat (provided various terms are favorable).
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