Thought this part of the article is interesting:
Schools within the three conferences believe they are like-minded, that they want to continue to prioritize broad-based sports offerings and that the academic profile of their institutions matters — as does graduating athletes. For example, Big Ten schools sponsor an average of 24.8 sports per campus, with the ACC (23.8) and Pac-12 (22.9) not far behind. SEC schools offer an average of 19.9 sports.
It has long been said that the top two sports in the SEC are football and Spring Football. Further, the concern is that Olympic sports will be squeezed as the college sports evolved. So, the SEC myopic focus on football alone is 100% accurate.
Good to see that the future of other sports are at least being considered by the ACC, Big 10 and Pac 12 (fwiw, a very underrated consideration and benefit of other sports is that often the most generous and consistent fund-raising sources for universities are former athletes and families of particular sports; David Couch's incredible gifts in support of the baseball program, the WF golf program has produced some of WF's most generous donors as well, are examples). Football is hugely important, but these other sports can play a big role in the college experience, while also building a school's brand, alumni connections and fund raising.
Also, would note that WF offers only 16 intercollegiate sports, which I believe is at or close to the minimum for ACC membership.