The question is what if the ACC Network failed to get launched? Big 10 and SEC will work together to pick apart the ACC. If all four conferences left decides to tear apart other conferences to get the best product to get to 4 24 pc0nferences? ACC left overs would be Syracuse, Miami, Boston College, Duke and Wake Forest. MWC and AAC would get picked apart, the MAC would lose a team or two. SBC and C-USA would get raided as well. 96 spots at the table. Depends who gets picked and who does not get picked. This would give the three military academies be part of the P4 structure. You could at least get 1 school from each state into the P4 without politics get involved for anti-trust being thrown about, and so forth. The P5 knows that states that don't have a school in the P5 would do what Utah politicians did and made threats of an anti-trust lawsuit against the P5 and the NCAA. They need to find a way to accept some schools from states not representative to the P5 structure.