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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 1565786, member: 833"] The ACC is protected by its GOR through 2025, but if it doesn't have a network soon, it will fall way behind the other majors. ESPN clearly doesn't want to do an ACCN or there would already be one. That said, ESPN has stepped up in the past to protect the ACC, and I think ESPN would do so again if the Cincinnati guy's rumor about the Big 10 Tier 1 rights going to Fox and CBS are true. IF the ACC is going to get a network, UConn becomes more important, and absolutely can not be in the Big 12. The other interesting rumor from the Cincinnati guy is that ESPN is refusing to renegotiate the AAC contract. That is strange given how dependent ESPN is on AAC content and the fact that it appears the AAC will be more important to ESPN in the future with CUSA going to Fox and the Big 10 Tier 1 potentially leaving too. I agree with others that the idea of the Big 10 stepping in for UConn seems like a fantasy at this point. [/QUOTE]