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<blockquote data-quote="steeleer" data-source="post: 131739994" data-attributes="member: 1484359">Problem with this approach is that this system works in a vacuum when it absolutely doesn't. ESPN controls the ACC, the AAC and the SEC. If ESPN wants content in the AAC (I.e. WVU) then they will simply tell the ACC they will not renegotiate their GOR which essentially nukes that option.The SEC will not take anyone else from the Big 12 because they want it dead.FOX Sports needs to step in if they want to save the B12. They need to reassure the remaining amount per team will not go down and then actively recruit TAMU, Arky, Missouri, LSU, Cincinnati and Memphis. They will have to overpay to make this happen, but they will lose this whole gambit if they allow ESPN/SEC to just ramble on without a counter punch.FOX needs to sit down this week with the B12 Presidents and pitch this. UT and OU have zero plans on waiting until 2025. ESPN also has no desire for this either. The longer the B12 waits, the more it harms ESPN. If we don't, we will be lucky to make a third of what we are making now in the AAC. ESPN will never allow WVU to be brought up to an ACC vote unless we become an asset to dissolve the Big 12. ESPN is not nearly that desperate yet. A United B12 in 2022 will likely change that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeleer, post: 131739994, member: 1484359"] Problem with this approach is that this system works in a vacuum when it absolutely doesn't. ESPN controls the ACC, the AAC and the SEC. If ESPN wants content in the AAC (I.e. WVU) then they will simply tell the ACC they will not renegotiate their GOR which essentially nukes that option. The SEC will not take anyone else from the Big 12 because they want it dead. FOX Sports needs to step in if they want to save the B12. They need to reassure the remaining amount per team will not go down and then actively recruit TAMU, Arky, Missouri, LSU, Cincinnati and Memphis. They will have to overpay to make this happen, but they will lose this whole gambit if they allow ESPN/SEC to just ramble on without a counter punch. FOX needs to sit down this week with the B12 Presidents and pitch this. UT and OU have zero plans on waiting until 2025. ESPN also has no desire for this either. The longer the B12 waits, the more it harms ESPN. If we don't, we will be lucky to make a third of what we are making now in the AAC. ESPN will never allow WVU to be brought up to an ACC vote unless we become an asset to dissolve the Big 12. ESPN is not nearly that desperate yet. A United B12 in 2022 will likely change that. [/QUOTE]

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