TrueVol1970
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Wont happen for two reasons: One, ACC teams owe too much for a buyout. Two, SEC already has a Florida and Carolina TV market so, those teams have no added value to the SEC.
aTm argued they are a Texas TV market but here comes Texas. As a matter of fact, aTm says they had a "gentleman's agreement" with the SEC that they'd be the only Texas school in the SEC but here comes Texas.Wont happen for two reasons: One, ACC teams owe too much for a buyout. Two, SEC already has a Florida and Carolina TV market so, those teams have no added value to the SEC.
aTm argued they are a Texas TV market but here comes Texas. As a matter of fact, aTm says they had a "gentleman's agreement" with the SEC that they'd be the only Texas school in the SEC but here comes Texas.
Not that I think Clemson and FSU are coming to the SEC. They're not. This is a "friendly reminder" to Notre Dame that the time has come for them to stop jerking the ACC around and fully commit. Notre Dame has been selfish and has the best of both worlds with a personal NBC TV deal and limited commitment to the ACC for several sports. The ACC needs them in to negotiate a good TV deal or the ACC will get absorbed in the future.
Notre Dame has always been a selfish school and done nothing but look after themselves. That crap can no longer fly in the post-NCAA era.
. And you will be wrong Clemson and FSU will be in the SEC soon. Sankey wants 20 teamsBig 12 GOR ends in 2025. ACC goes through 2036.
ESPN owns ACC TV rights. B12 was split with Fox having first dibs on football.
Speculation is the SEC TV deal post OU and TX should be around 65-70M per team. If that is true (considering the Big 10 is already at 54M+, it makes sense) 2 additional teams will cost ESPN $300M+ per year on top of that (75M per year, per new teams, plus an additional 10M per year or so for current 16 teams. Because no expansion happens unless everyone's money goes up).
The LHN is a money loser. This is a way for ESPN to kill it or to turn it into SECNW 2.
Texas and OU are more valuable pieces than Clemson and FSU.
Breaking up the ACC could benefit B10 and Fox Sports more than SEC and ESPN.
I just don't this happening.
The NCAA is LOOKING for an exit strategy from football. I posted a link previously to the Knight Commission suggestion the NCAA abandon football and let a "new meta organization" created by the conferences oversee football and let the NCAA keep the other sports.There's a bigger picture that people are missing.
This isn't about "conference expansion." This is about the SEC stripping power away from the NCAA. If the SEC has all the marquee teams, then the SEC is its own boss and the NCAA is irrelevant. It's less a "super-conference" and more an NCAA replacement.
In that sense, it won't matter if the SEC takes 30 teams. The "divisions" or "pods" with the SEC simply become the new conferences.