Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

isutrevman

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I think best case scenario - Arizona comes here, PAC 8 and ACC merge, ACC schools that want to leave can.

Why would ACC do that? Because it's either die in 12 years when the GOR expires, or keep breathing with less fire power.
12 years is an eternity. I don't see the other ACC schools letting anyone leave before that time is up. Texas and OU couldn't get out of their Big 12 contract and had to pay heavily to leave just 1 year early. No way in hell are Clemson and FSU getting out of the ACC.
 

2speedy1

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FSU and Clemson would head to the SEC wouldn't they?
ESPN owns both conferences rights.

Is ESPN going to agree to pay them 3 times as much as they have them contractually obligated for the next 13 years?

While a game like FSU/Bama is worth more, is a game like FSU/Arkansas worth more than FSU/Syracuse?

SEC came out yesterday and said they were not interested in expansion. While that could just be what they are saying publicly, it also could be that ESPN is not willing to pay the high rate in the SEC for more teams.
 
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LancelotClone

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Rollercoaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There needs to be a 30 for 30 with the interworking of these deals.
It would all be speculation. The NDAs have kept many schools from talking. The B1G has admitted they have talked to more schools than has been reported on.
 

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"And everyone who registers to vote gets a Pac 12 subscription. We're only a couple of million short of our goal. "
 
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I think best case scenario - Arizona comes here, PAC 8 and ACC merge, ACC schools that want to leave can.

Why would ACC do that? Because it's either die in 12 years when the GOR expires, or keep breathing with less fire power.

Pac/ACC back fill a little from MWC/AAC because they’ll lose 4-6 more to big 12 in addition to obvious top acc brands.
 

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As this is all in flux, I keep going back to the what if scenario where the Big 12 and PAC agreed to merge last summer after the departure of OUT and USCLA. Maybe grant WVU a free out if they could find a landing spot. But it would have resulted in a cohesive 18 team conference headlined in football by ORWA in the west and TCU and Okie St. in the Midwest.

But this was supposedly blocked by the a few members of the PAC, and allowed the dominos to race along to where they are now. I think we all would have been happy to be in a unified conference instead of finger pointing as to who is at fault for the dissolution of one of CFBs longest standing conferences.