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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 1325749, member: 2524"] Not for Texas or Oklahoma, maybe for Oklahoma State and a few others -- they could go to SEC, ACC/independent, or Pac and get a raise. They also have been talking to conferences and have a good idea what they could make on the open market. So for those valuable schools, the risk of letting the B12 fail is zero. It only frees themselves up to auction themselves off for more money. The current B12 TV deal is voided if they don't maintain 10 members. If it is voided, the GoR expires and the buyout goes down. The remaining schools become de facto free agents. The resistance to adding to 12 is partly driven by the unwillingness of Texas and Oklahoma and Kansas, who have options, to give the weak schools enough power to hem them in. So their departure would leave maybe six schools who are harmed. They lose $22 mn per year. Who can they sue? Not Texas and Oklahoma -- once the GoR and the TV deal dissolved, they had no obligation to stay. It was Kansas's departure that led to the voiding of the TV deal and the loss of cash. Kansas would be sued and the liability would be potentially very large. (6 schools * $20 mn per year * N years). The GoR is an "all for one, one for all" agreement. The first school to leave is the one that does all the damages, and would face all the liability. [/QUOTE]