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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4049649, member: 833"] That analysis is wrong. The SEC is not going to be worth that much more with Oklahoma and Texas than it was before those schools joined, and it is possible that there is little incremental bump at all to ESPN. There will be a bump to the SEC though, which ESPN will have to pay. ESPN will probably lose content with the Big 12 in the next TV deal after this stunt. And the AAC has been completely devalued to the point that it is probably not worth putting on the air. ESPN will have to find another sport. 20 years ago, ESPN had the ACC, SEC, Big East, the Big 12, half the Big 10 and half the Pac 12, for all sports, and the most expensive leagues cost about $10 million a team while the Big East was around $5 if I remember correctly. Then ESPN set in motion conference realignment. By 2025, they will have the ACC, SEC, and a few games from the Big 10 and Pac 12, plus maybe a few games from the Big 12. ESPN has essentially lost basketball in the northeast and midwest, where it is most popular, and the west coast. For that limited content, which is virtually all regional, ESPN pays the ACC over $30MM a team and the SEC over $50MM a team, and now they have to find additional filler content or broadcast G5 games to 10k people. I would say ESPN has blown it. [/QUOTE]