The SEC may not, but I am pretty sure the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac-12

care since those three conferences when a lot of national championships (team and individual) in non-revenue sports. I believe the Pac-12 has won more team national championships in the non-revenue sports than men's basketball and football combined. The Big Ten may be another conference that has won more national championships in non-revenue sports than revenue sports. I believe the ACC has a slight edge towards revenue sports, but it may be a toss up. If you don't factor in the Big 8 history and SWC history, then I believe the Big XII is a toss up.

I am not saying that this will ultimately delay the split. However, conferences and schools pride themselves on tradition. I do think any split from the NCAA will be messy for a couple different reasons and I don't envision the NCAA (or the NCAA schools) continue to allow the power conference schools to compete under the NCAA umbrella for non-revenue sports. Nor do I think the NCAA will allow their schools to compete under the power conference's association for non-revenue sports (assuming the power conferences tried to go that route).

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Posted: 03/01/2016 at 1:14PM

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