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Message: [QUOTE="dwalks93, post: 1760375, member: 5598"] Ok I'll bite on this one...the math is there. Currently FOX/ESPN are paying a premium price for 10 Big12 schools of which only a handful are true national players. How many anchors schools would the Big12 need to lose to insure ESPN can start paying AAC rates to the remainder of the Big12? At a minimum I'd say UT needs to go, OU needs to go and a schools like Kansas and maybe even an OSU would insure it. Here is the math....let's say Big12 teams currently get $30 million per team so $30m x 10 = $300 million. What if ESPN paid the BIG/SEC/ACC an extra $40 million per school to take on UT, OU and Kansas.? That would cost the network $120 million. But then on the next Big12 deal ESPN/Fox only paid the remaining 7 teams $10 million each. The math becomes $120 million for UT/OU/KU + $70 million for the remaining 7 Big12 schools = $190 million. This is opposed to the current $300 million the networks are paying. $300 million > $190 million so it could benefit the BIG/SEC/ACC/PAC to pay above market rates for an OU to insure the BIG12 either implodes or is relegated to the market position of the AAC. Your argument that the best way to get a deal with ESPN is to keep them happy does not hold water. The BIG got its monster contract when it refused ESPN's initial offer and took the contract to open market. The ACC only got its ACCN when it enacted the $45 million penalty clause and financially compelled ESPN to build a network. The Big12 should take full advantage of the pro-rata clause now. If ESPN made a stupid deal that is on them. No one is saying ESPN should voluntarily pay the AAC more money cause ESPN made a great deal on the AAC. If destroying/degrading the Big12 benefits ESPN/FOX they will do so and playing nice now won't change that....the math is there. Pittsburgh/Syracuse/Boston College may not be worth $30 million but the money being withheld to the AAC teams make up for the overpay BC is receiving. Paying BC/Pitt/Cuse was the cost of killing the Big East. [/QUOTE]

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