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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4634828, member: 3850"] You won't hear an official peep from an ACC school initiating an exit until after this year's conference payout which is coming up. And most probably not then. But...I do think that the real owners (the networks) might have a plan to shift assets over a period to increase the number of games drawing big ratings and to enhance their future CFP playoffs. There seems to be a drive to consolidate into 2, maybe 3, relevant conferences. Since the NFL model is a money maker...major 20-24 team conferences in an NFL light model with their championship games as part of the CFP to determine byes. With the advent of college players making money and transferring for a better NIL deal, the haves will swamp the have nots anyway. It is shaping up to be an ESPN vs Fox property world. SEC vs B1G. The ACC GOR does have the language that the schools grant their rights to the ACC solely for the purpose of meeting their obligations in the ESPN contract. If, somehow, ESPN can allow the remaining programs to be held held harmless, the contract obligations to ESPN may be met. Notre Dame will eventually be forced to go to the B1G...ESPN may not want to harm the future draw of FSU, Clemson by letting the progarms lose value over a decade...and there is little chance that ESPN will work to have a current ESPN property go to the Fox side of the business. Unless there is some horse trading to go on. If the B1G brings in another 4 Pac programs and Notre Dame, the SEC may forced to counter (with ESPN whispering in their ear). And, I believe, the SEC culture is one that doesn't contemplate going way out of their region...Southern tier, southern conference...Texas and Oklahoma were contiguous with SEC states. [/QUOTE]

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