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Message: [QUOTE="speckle, post: 5013178, member: 13335"] I hear what you're saying but Im not sure it means the best outcome for the other 6 schools in this case (5 actually with UNC being the 3rd premium product). If Clemson and FSU are able to get out first, in the go it alone route of now, the value of each of the remaining schools will drop more than proportionally once their best, most marketable opponents, have already departed. If anything I could see Louisville and Miami, for instance, having the greater incentive to leave earlier since their values are likely more volatile than Clemson and FSU. I can't say they have guaranteed money in hand, but I absolutely believe those schools make more over the next dozen years by leaving sooner. I also don't necessarily believe they'd even have to join the lawsuit if they do have a simple majority who believes in game theory greatest mutual outcomes. In the current circumstance they are effectively financing the legal case, via shared ACC legal costs, against their greater individual, financial interests. Attacking the league bylaws as a majority group seems viable way to benefit all of these schools without heading to court. Auction houses don't put their best lots on the block first and hope there's interest in the remaining product down the line. Last, the recent precedent for conference payouts to remaining schools is $5m per via the Pac12 to OSU and WSU. Waiting for an exit fee windfall once teams leave a broken and now undesirable conference doesn't sound like a strong financial model. Seems more like wishful thinking. [/QUOTE]

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