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Message: [QUOTE="dayooper, post: 1945095, member: 3859"] The dude just can't keep well enough alone, can he. Flugar can't leave a Dude tweet alone, can he. Ridiculous. #1. Where are these great time slots ESPM is going to give them? They already are paying big money for the SEC, ACC and Big10. They can't get enough money from the Big10 games to sell them. Is ESPN going to sell the rights to other networks? I know there are regional games, but they also have national games they want everyone to see. #2. Why would ESPN/Fox pay $80 million to keep UT/OU in the Big12. ESPN doesn't want the Big12, wasn't willing to give them a network, wasn't willing to pay for expansion and has left them out of the majority of their national time slots. Now they are willing to pay more? Lunacy! #3. Why do the networks want to avoid consolidation? Consolidation will give them better games more often. Instead of regional games, they would have a more national appeal. Sure, games with Minnesota, Purdue and the like wouldn't be popular, but you would get games with Michigan, OSU, PSU and Wisky to go along with the renewed rivalry with Nebraska. Oklahoma would get an even more national exposure. #4. It was Wisconsin and Michigan that led the charge to kick-out Nebraska from he AAU. They would have held the vote a year earlier but thee wasn't enough support to get the votes. UofM and UW knew they wanted to vote Nebby out of the AAU, yet they voted them into the Big10. [/QUOTE]