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[QUOTE="Pudge, post: 1712857, member: 364"]
There's NO free lunch.

We are in this Cartel structure & the lessons of the last week seem to be clear.  You have major players (in this case Texas & OK).  And ... then you have an extremely large level of carry-on Universities that aren't nearly as valued.  While the disdain for our fair University was obvious ... with the Memphis, UCF, USF, Houston, BYU etc. I think the 5-10 year timeframe becomes clear.  There's no real function, in the long run, for this conference structure.

Will the ACC support a non-achieving (dollars and cents / field performance) Boston College?  Or ... the entire wing of Texas Tech, Kansas State, Baylor (with the second decade of crap)?

I don't see the GoR as binding all the bigger Values for many more years.  The variance from the SEC/B1G to the next tier will lead to more dislocation as those with leverage seek to grab their perceived share of the pie.  What is the rationale for UCLA or North Carolina to make significantly less than Mississippi State?  Particularly as the delivery systems change.  The paradigm of hoping to climb to a Power conference ends for us at UConn; but, it becomes a far more freeform ecosystem really soon.
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