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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4831746, member: 153"] Someone pasted the link here. I agree that if there are no triggers, then ESPN will not need to do much, and furthermore, a school like FSU can just negotiate its rights. However, if there is a trigger, then there's huge incentive to prevent the top schools from moving freely, and there's nothing ESPN can do at that point to break up the conference. The other schools will hold to the contract to 2036 with an iron fist. Here's why I think this whole discussion about 2027 is moot. The grant of rights are held by the conference until 2036. They hold the rights. Nothing changes here UNLESS you believe that ESPN does not want FSU or Clemson at the current price they're paying. The only thing that would make me think that is that the addition of SMU, Cal and Stanford has ESPN regretting this deal. In which case, the other ACC schools will have shot themselves in the foot. FSU is locked in until 2036; it doesn't really matter what ESPN does. [/QUOTE]