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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4634416, member: 44"] Yeah, respectfully suggesting that we take less than a full share, it’s just dumb. Certainly taking a half share is, unless, of course, it was part of a phase into a full share. How conference realignment has worked fairly consistently is that a net work pays enough to pay for the full share of the new member plus some additional amount for every existing member. That’s why it gets incrementally more difficult to expand conferences after every round of realignment. My point is it really doesn’t matter if FSU and Clemson vehemently opposed us, because they’re gone anyway at their first opportunity, which will be 2036 give or take a couple years. So the leverage that FSU had when they indicated their preference for Louisville instead of us may well have disappeared. Then it was the threat of their leaving that gave them extra throw weight. Now, their leaving is a practical certainly. If we leave the big east, we should only consider joining a conference where we are making 1) dramatically more money and 2) joining a stable conference. As much as I would prefer to play ACC teams given our prior history with them, I agree that the big 12 seems to be the more stable conference end is in a position to pay more money. The really interesting question is what if the big 12 offers us, say, $12 -15 million as a basketball only member (they won’t) versus the ACC, offering us a full share at say $35-$37 million? At first blush you would take the ACC, but they are very likely to fall apart in 2036. [/QUOTE]

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