Let me introduce you to the Big 10 Academic Alliance. They’re in charge of like 20% of all PhDs annually in the US. Plus share $10Billion in research annually.just don’t see how much more or less the football team joining the B10, joining the Sec, or staying in the ACC really moves the needle academically. Either this is Sportsball money driven or it’s not. UVA and UNC don’t really get to decide which way that works.
Any university administrator would kill to be included in this.
You go to SEC for athletic reasons with a side of academic, you go to Big10 for Academic reasons with a side of athletics.