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Message: [QUOTE="WestCoastHusky, post: 4737273, member: 566"] ACC expansion sets the bottom for conference expansion going forward. Going forward, teams will whore themselves to get into specific conferences or groups just to get in. It will get really ugly like corporate M&As etc with deals like the SMU just did. It is a reflection of the overall deteriorating American culture where everything is for profit, and the winner takes all with losers be damned. I am sick of these conferences and media networks acting like Mafia dons that decide who is in and who is out in the most cutthroat way possible. These conferences have way too much control over college football, and it should not be this way. I can't wait for the day every school is paid for its worth vs. sponging off the conference with schools like RU and BCU. The ND indy in football with regional sports in a conference is the model for the future. UCONN in some ways is already there with our current model. If ND can get a huge streaming plus linear deal for football, I think it will set the precedent for other big programs that might follow. Once teams like Alabama and Ohio State bail on the conferences, it will be a totally new world where every school will be paid based on their own media deal vs. as a member of the conference. [/QUOTE]