[OCcardinal]

*While joining ACC is laughable by geography, it was by far the best move left to us after crash of Pac-12 and no invites to B1G or SEC or B12.

I've never heard that the Big 12 wasn't an option. My understanding was Stanford preferred the ACC as it had more like-minded national research universities. Did you hear otherwise? (The ACC's also a better football conference - Stanford's 2025 recruiting class is #6 in the ACC right now, but would be #3 in the Big 12.)

[OCcardinal]

*While joining ACC is laughable by geography, it was by far the best move left to us after crash of Pac-12 and no invites to B1G or SEC or B12.

I've never heard that the Big 12 wasn't an option. My understanding was Stanford preferred the ACC as it had more like-minded national research universities. Did you hear otherwise? (The ACC's also a better football conference - Stanford's 2025 recruiting class is #6 in the ACC right now, but would be #3 in the Big 12.)