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Message: [QUOTE="McLovin, post: 4341364, member: 9450"] The conferences can divide up and pay out the money any way they want. Why couldn't there be a conversation / deal like this... "Hey BIG, this is the president of FOX. I want you to go add 4 schools from the ACC so we can get your conference up to 20 teams, a number we feel is necessary for you to continue to be a big time conference. However, as we saw with Rutgers and Maryland, it has taken them nearly a decade for their athletic programs to adjust to the mighty BIG after coming from "lesser" conferences. So we will pay your existing schools $50 million per year for their media rights but the new 4 schools only $10 million per year to start. But because we want to protect our long term investment in your conference, we will provide you with an extra $40 million per year for the 4 new schools, as an investment in their programs to bring their brands and on field performance to the level of competitiveness we expect from a BIG school. This $40 million per year money is not for their media rights, but to ensure they can assimilate their programs into the toughest conference in America. After 2035 we will consider increasing the media rights for those 4 new programs to the full $50 million per year." All I'm saying is that if FOX and the BIG want any ACC school, their accountants and lawyers can get creative in how they distribute the money and skirt the GOR. At the very least draw out a lawsuit long enough over the distributions until the ACC is dead (kind of like how the PGA thinks they can outlast the LIV tour with a lengthy legal battle) [/QUOTE]

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