The last part of President Barron's infamous public email about FSU not being interested in the Big 12.
"The faculty are adamantly opposed to joining a league that is academically weaker. Instead we prefer to admit schools that make our current league academically inferior. In this way we maintain our football superiority by not moving to league with better competition and make our suspect academics look better by associating with glorified commuter colleges. Many of our alumni, students and professor resent the fact that we would bully a conference into setting aside it's vaunted academic priorities in order to keep us in league that no longer makes geographic sense but football interests now run this college, and have for a long time, so I could not care less what they think.
I present these issues to you so that you realize that this is not so simple (and to make you aware that if you are not a prominent football booster we do not give a hoot about what you think). We can't afford to have conference affiliation to be based on a careful assessment of athletics, finances and academics, instead it must be a game of chicken with those arrogant jackasses in North Carolina.
I assure you that every aspect of conference affiliation will be looked at by this institution, but a decision will be based upon personal ego and, of course, football.
Eric Barron President
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Ah, now that makes sense.