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Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4620784, member: 694"] Except again... This costs ESPN money... at a time they're actively trying to reduce costs. They're going to pay-more for rights in Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia & Georgia Tech than it currently costs them.. and that would likely cost more than the current per-team worth of those members. (Georgia Tech doesn't have anywhere near the value of Clemson, nor would they be anywhere near the current per-team value of the SEC membership. Similarly UVa is likely to turn up its nose academically at the SEC, I'd be very surprised if they were to play ball here; Louisville wouldn't even be in the conversation for the SEC for Kentucky to throw a fit about). On the Big XII side of the ledger, that deal is currently shared with Fox. So you're paying pro-rata for your piece of cost to NC State, Virginia Tech, Clemson & Louisville to join that conference; a largely lateral move for those schools.. but while you might be able to dissolve the GOR you still have the matter of conference withdrawal fees... those schools aren't paying a withdrawal fee to end up with roughly the same payout. Ultimately I just don't see a happy ending for enough ACC schools to dissolve the GOR even if only 8 votes were necessary. Nor do I see enough of a financial incentive for ESPN to pay enough of a premium to increase the SEC payout by at least the same per-team amount for any combination of 4 schools... to the SEC. The markets are either redundant or the teams aren't compelling enough to make it happen. This same math also impacts the Big Ten and Fox although to a lesser extent because the ACC markets are at least additive to the Big Ten carriage agreement. The Big XII is largely a lateral move, a break-glass for the ACC teams if and only if the ACC GOR and conference were falling apart. You aren't voluntarily going there without knowing the league is toast. If your vote against dissolving the GOR prevents the desirable teams from leaving... then you aren't voting to dissolve; there just is not incentive for you to have to execute your "break-glass" plan. [/QUOTE]

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