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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4363750, member: 3850"] Reply to Rufus.. who posted... [I][B]“From a realistic standpoint, schools from the SEC aren’t going to ever move while the 2 schools that the Big Ten would want from the Pac-10 (USC and UCLA) are no-brainers in the same category as Texas and Notre Dame where there’s no point in even examining them because they’re in if they want to join.”[/B][/I] My thought is that Notre Dame will sign with NBC for more money, play football as an indy and play other sports in the ACC. Assuming ESPN is not included in the new B10 rights deal, you would have one conference grabbing the member of another conference. ESPN may not have signed the GOR, but it is designed to protect it from not losing any assets to another network. What the GOR requires is that all of the ND non football/hockey sports media assets stay in the ACC. But what does that really mean? It means, I think, that ND non football sports are not on TV. Anywhere. A decade long blackout. Tough on recruiting. ESPN is not going to broadcast them as ND is not in the ACC anymore and the B10 doesn't own the rights to allow FOX-NBC to broadcast them. The games go into a black hole and will be seen by no one. Ever. The GOR doesn't state that any revenue from the rights stay with the ACC (my first interpretation); it just states that the rights stay with the ACC. Period. FOX and NBC have no legal rights to those media rights. But...if ESPN/Fox/NBC are really conniving together to have a Tier 1 league...maybe they could push to release GORs... You can get a headache thinking about this....the GOR is between Notre Dame and the conference but there is a third party, ESPN. [/QUOTE]

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