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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4735065, member: 3850"] Don't short sell the media's hand in these realignment movements... I would bet that ESPN, behind the scenes, has been manuevring. Brett McMurphy tweeted... ."W/potential future departures of FSU, Clemson & UNC - all who voted against expansion - ACC wanted to get P5 schools now opposed to G5 schools later to maintain required membership number". What was considered a pipedream a month ago now seems to be talked about nationally as a fact. Shore up the conference in preparation for future departures....the script is set...bridges burned, yada, yada....I sort of think that the ACC ESPN contract will be changed thus making it less expensive for those who want to leave (Exit fee but GOR negated). The ESPN gets their late evening slots, the ACC gets money and gets kept whole, and maybe, just maybe, ESPN gets to move an asset or two to another conference property. [/QUOTE]