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Message: [QUOTE="Hamms30, post: 5306622, member: 7714"] That's what I don't get. What is the added value of adding Duke, UNC or Virginia to your conference? They're football doesn't bring any additional value. They haven't/don't and won't win anything in football. It's just diluting membership payouts for legacy conference members. Oh, they're basketball powerhouses and that could bring a lot of added value to the conference? Well, how about the school with 6 national championships on the men's side in 25 years and 11 on the women's in 30, would that not bring value? Oh... that team is a non-starter because their football team wouldn't bring any value and basketball has no bearing? Makes total sense ¯\[I](ツ)[/I]/¯ Are we not trying to squeeze blood out of a football stone at this point? If the SEC says to ESPN.. we're gonna extend offers to Clemson and FSU so we need more money, at what point does ESPN and ABC say.. well, we pay them 37M now and you want us to pay them 50M? How do we get an extra $26M of value out of them joining the SEC to offset our incremental costs especially now that the value of the ACC would be torpedoed and ROI on the ACC conference could now be negative? [/QUOTE]