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Message: [QUOTE="RedRabbit84, post: 5171025, member: 13638"] Overall, I think you're right. Where we disagree is where you say ESPN has to dance is the SEC says. Quite the opposite. ESPN is still putting out the checks the SEC is relying on. Could the SEC go elsewhere? Possibly, but where? Fox is so bad off they're basically having a fire sale of their inventory outside of sports (again, selling a large chunk to ESPN's parent company) and if CBS had the money, they would've never gotten outbid to begin with. And it makes zero sense for ESPN to pay more for what it's already got, especially when you can monetize what you've got more with things such as rivalry week and say, an ACC/SEC challenge in basketball. They don't [I]need[/I] to move schools from one conference to another to get the benefit of those schools playing each other, and if they played each other regularly you lose the appeal that makes it valuable to begin with. I genuinely think the next round of shifting is going to be more basketball driven, which even to me would've been inconceivable two years ago. That's good news for a school like UConn. Not sure why the quickness to belittle my points when they're all good news for your program. [/QUOTE]