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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 1255935, member: 2524"] To date, there hasn't been a down-tick in incomes due to realignment (UConn has lost relative status, not absolute income). But at the next go-round, there likely would be. If the valuable parts of the ACC, UNC, UVa, FSU, Va Tech jumped to the B1G or SEC, gaining $20 mn per year, the remnants would drift down to G5 level payouts probably $10 mn a year below current levels. By shrinking the pool of highly-paid teams and increasing the pool of second-class schools, the motivation for an antitrust lawsuit would substantially increase. Athletic leagues are quite vulnerable to antitrust lawsuits, because the whole concept of organizing a league and scheduling within it is a form of exclusion of other partners and directly contrary to antitrust law. That is why most professional leagues got exemptions from antitrust law. The leftover ACC teams would have no case in contract law, but in antitrust law they would. [/QUOTE]