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[QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 4017772, member: 1559"]
Conferences are not looking to add schools to increase the number of schools in their conference or solidify geographies, but they are looking to brands that can help drive their conference network revenues when they become streaming services.  There is a big difference in value creation to adding Texas and Oklahoma or Notre Dame to your conference than any other current or projected available school.  You take Oklahoma and Texas out of the Big 12 and the value of the Big 12 media rights plummets to close to AAC levels.  If you take Florida State and Clemson out of the ACC and the value of the ACC media rights plummet as well.

This may sound crazy, but if the ACC cut two of the lowest media value schools from their conference, their media rights value probably doesn't go down at all and they could increase payouts to the remaining schools by $5 to $6 million per year.  Add in Notre Dame and maybe you can narrow the gap between the ACC and the Big 10 and SEC and keep Florida State and Clemson happy.
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