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So much for Mizzou's loyalty!
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<blockquote data-quote="dawg" data-source="post: 891291" data-attributes="member: 1402"><p>The key entity in all this isn't the ACC or the PAC-12, the SEC or the B1G. It's ESPN. Because we all know ESPN no longer reports the news, it MAKES the news. The same ESPN that has an expiring contract with the BE. The same ESPN that has the ACC locked up for years into the future. Which of these two conferences would ESPN like to see go away?</p><p></p><p>Let's say the SEC makes the bold move and goes to 16 (Aggy, MU, FSU, Clemson). That's a killshot on the Big XII, everyone of any value gets out, and ESPN loses a conference property (or the B-whatever reforms at a greatly reduced value). That leaves the ACC needing to fill between two and six slots (if they decide to follow the SEC to 16), and their most logical place to get teams is from the Big East. Or the Big East and B1G could strike and raid the ACC into oblivion. </p><p></p><p>IMHO, the key here is that ESPN is going to lose the BIG XII and one other conference. In their minds, which would they rather have stay at the highest level of college football? I'm afraid the answer is the ACC. If the Big East loses six to the ACC, it ceases to be a player in football but, with the eight basketball-only schools, still remain a somewhat viable basketball league (ESPN loses football, which they were probably losing anyway to NBC/Comcast, and the price tag for renewing Big East basketball goes way down.) If the ACC gets raided by the BE and B1G, then ESPN loses a BCS football conference AND a top-teir basketball league. A conference under contract to them for years and no threat to leave to a rival network</p><p></p><p>It is in ESPN's best interest to have the ACC fire the killshot into the BE as a football-playing conference. This prevents NBC/Comcast from acquiring a strengthened BCS football conference, and the unquestioned strongest and most valuable basketball league. And it strengthens their own property. What's to stop the ACC and ESPN from mutually agreeing to rip up their current contract and negotiate a new one, once six current BE members accept membership in the ACC, seeing as the landscape has changed massively? It greatly pains me to say, but nothing. The BE cannot negotiate with any other networks till 2012, and ESPN ensures those negotiations are only for a shell of conference.</p><p></p><p>GO FROGS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dawg, post: 891291, member: 1402"] The key entity in all this isn't the ACC or the PAC-12, the SEC or the B1G. It's ESPN. Because we all know ESPN no longer reports the news, it MAKES the news. The same ESPN that has an expiring contract with the BE. The same ESPN that has the ACC locked up for years into the future. Which of these two conferences would ESPN like to see go away? Let's say the SEC makes the bold move and goes to 16 (Aggy, MU, FSU, Clemson). That's a killshot on the Big XII, everyone of any value gets out, and ESPN loses a conference property (or the B-whatever reforms at a greatly reduced value). That leaves the ACC needing to fill between two and six slots (if they decide to follow the SEC to 16), and their most logical place to get teams is from the Big East. Or the Big East and B1G could strike and raid the ACC into oblivion. IMHO, the key here is that ESPN is going to lose the BIG XII and one other conference. In their minds, which would they rather have stay at the highest level of college football? I'm afraid the answer is the ACC. If the Big East loses six to the ACC, it ceases to be a player in football but, with the eight basketball-only schools, still remain a somewhat viable basketball league (ESPN loses football, which they were probably losing anyway to NBC/Comcast, and the price tag for renewing Big East basketball goes way down.) If the ACC gets raided by the BE and B1G, then ESPN loses a BCS football conference AND a top-teir basketball league. A conference under contract to them for years and no threat to leave to a rival network It is in ESPN's best interest to have the ACC fire the killshot into the BE as a football-playing conference. This prevents NBC/Comcast from acquiring a strengthened BCS football conference, and the unquestioned strongest and most valuable basketball league. And it strengthens their own property. What's to stop the ACC and ESPN from mutually agreeing to rip up their current contract and negotiate a new one, once six current BE members accept membership in the ACC, seeing as the landscape has changed massively? It greatly pains me to say, but nothing. The BE cannot negotiate with any other networks till 2012, and ESPN ensures those negotiations are only for a shell of conference. GO FROGS [/QUOTE]
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