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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 1182855, member: 2920"] I agree with you. In my opinion, GoRs are just another item to settle monetarily between the departing school and conference. About the bolded sentence you wrote: damages from a departing school might be non-existent. In the article I linked a few days ago, the writer examines what challenging a GoR would entail. In it, they state that not in a single instance of a conference losing a school, did the conference's TV contract negotiate down. From the article: [I]"In 2003, the Big East is raided for two of its name brand schools, and a regionally significant school. The Big East added some lesser brands, and their media partners did not reduce their ongoing media deal. [B]2010, the Big 12 lost 2 schools in Colorado and Nebraska, did not replace those schools, and the Big 12 lost a significant amount of content (1/6th) in football and basketball. The Big 12's media partners did not reduce the payout on existing contracts but actually negotiated for more money on an expiring one. 2011, Texas A&M and Missouri left, the Big 12 replaced them with less valuable TV properties in [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/team/tcu-horned-frogs-team']TCU[/URL] and [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/west-virginia-mountaineers-team']WVU[/URL], and neither ESPN or FOX required a reduction in the payout to the Big 12. 2012, Maryland leaves the ACC for the Big 10, ACC replaces them with a less valuable media property. Not a single word is mentioned about a reduced payout for the ACC.[/B] Networks, and one specifically, won't reduce the amount they pay to the conferences because it would violate their fiduciary duties to the conferences. Because one network (ESPN) has a hand in every league's media deal (except new Big East if it even exists) it can't in good faith pay one league more for raiding one league, then reducing its payout to league that was raided. Because there is no evidence there would be a reduced payout to the league, the damages calculation is simple. The media deal for Conference A remains unchanged despite School X leaving, therefore there would be no damages for breach of grant of rights. [B]The Big 12 grant of rights runs concurrently to media deals. So unless the networks change their strategy and go against precedent and start reducing the payouts to leagues, the only thing that binds these schools is money[/B]. Once the SEC starts its network there will be a new conference shuffle, and the Big 12 is still vulnerable." [/I] Granted, this is all speculative. But it's not exactly wrong. Not one conference had their media deal cut from the network that holds their rights after a school or schools left. It's because of this that I personally think the GoR can be negotiated. So if Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas were to leave, they could use this as the backbone to their argument and settle with the B12 monetarily. [/QUOTE]

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