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Big 12 commish says B12 is discussing an alliance with the ACC

HalIncandenza said:
Wishful thinking.

Unless they got 5 of their friends to come along at the same time, they would be forfeiting their TV revenue to the Big whatever for the next 10 or so years because of the Grant of Rights. That's 200 million dollars. That's why the XII is far more secure than people are understanding at this point.

I don't think even Texas would justify that, especially when they are in a conference where they call the shots? Why give that up for a conference where they would not be guaranteed as much money(smaller per team cut and no tier 3), wouldn't be able to touch the money for 10 years, would have very little in common with culturally, would have major headaches for their large non revenue programs, and would be playing 2nd fiddle, at best?

Pipe dream for the ACC.

It founds like Bowlsby is basically wanting a setup where the non-con games would only be against the partner conferences. That would probably raise the contracts for each conference as it would provide several more high quality games with large viewer bases each season. If s broadcaster locked up that block of games, I imagine it would cost a pretty penny. Would really suck for smaller schools though that would be getting locked out of the non cons. It could really start a situation where there are just 80 or less teams practically in the game, without additional realignment carnage.
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http://outkickthecoverage.com/myth-of-the-big-12s-grant-of-rights.php
 
jamesda3 said:
The two explanations for this on the WVU board are:

1. The only mentioned the ACC because they are setting us up for the raid. 6 teams leaving tuesday and they have been saying that every tuesday.

2. The Big 12 has agreed to do this and stop raiding if we give them two teams to get to 12.
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Lol
 
DeacKillsaDevil said:
http://outkickthecoverage.com/myth-of-the-big-12s-grant-of-rights.php
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Thanks for the link and I think it's mostly right. Do we know if there are triggers for renegotiation if the league were to lose an OU or Texas? That would be large enough of a loss that I would think a network would require a reworking of the contract, which then would cause a real loss that Texas would be required to compensate without specific performance.

Specific performance is obviously the worst case scenario for a departing XII team and would assuredly be settled down from the $200m, but it would certainly be a large chunk of change regardless. Even despite the money consequences, I think it's nuts for Texas to go ACC.
 
BillBrasky said:
MAKE IT STOP. I HATE IT ALL. AT THIS POINT NOBODY GAINS ANYTHING. YOU'RE GONNA KILL YOUR PRODUCT. JUST FUCKING STOP.

We can handle the Nebraska here, the Maryland there, but dude.

You're trying to kill my god. I fucking hate this.
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The alliance would seem to be a major step in the stopping it direction
 
Clemson and FSU are gone! Just like they've been for the last, what, two years? Three?
 
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