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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4340286, member: 71"] I posted something on this many years ago and I still believe that the BIG is playing a long game and if we can get our act together (AAU status, representative football program) we will have a landing spot in that conference. The northeast corridor (also called the DC-Boston megalopolis or Bos-Wash) is the seventh largest economy on the globe ($4 trillion annually), has 52 million residents (projected to grow to 58 million by 2025) and, if the BIG were to add us and UVA, that conference would cover the entire region. Yes, the grant of rights will cause the BIG to be patient when grabbing ACC schools but the way I see it, this works in our favor as it provides us time to improve things that we have neglected for the bulk of our existence. My guess is that nobody will want to be the first ACC to leave. Yes, the GOR can be monetized, allowing the departing school to buy their way out but for example a cost $20-$25 million multiplied by the remaining years in the GOR would be astronomical. It likely would be a decade before any school would even publicly bring the idea forward of departing that conference and then they would plan it so they leave with little to no time remaining on the GOR. [/QUOTE]