(01-21-2014 09:32 AM)10thMountain Wrote: No need for the conference killing cancer. Austin already has the highest A&M viewing ratings in TX!
We need eastern markets for the network which makes NC and VA the priority.
Only hard part is that VT and NC state don't seem anxious to leave unless UNC/UVA leave first...which is not out of the realm of possibility if the B1G comes calling for either UNC or UVA.
Of those 2, UVA seems more likely to jump
At this point it only takes 1 to get it started. But, to do the ACC in so that it wasn't a legal and financial morass it takes 12. Now you could have the SEC take 4, the Big 10 take 4 and the Big 12 take as many as the other 7 plus B.Y.U.
I say 4 10th because if there is ever movement in the ACC Duke, N.C. & UVa are all likely to want to stay connected whether they go to the SEC or Big 10. N.C. State, Virginia Tech, Clemson and Florida State are 4 of their top 6 brands in attendance, television draw, and revenue earned.
Miami, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech and Louisville give the Big 12 a Southern Pod. Iowa State, Pittsburgh with the addition of Boston College (add to W.V.U.) would give the Big 12 a Northern Pod. Then Kansas State, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State for the Central and Texas, Texas Christian, Texas Tech and Baylor for the West. To 18 they might get N.D. and B.Y.U.
The Big 10 would have Duke, U.N.C., Virginia and Syracuse. The PAC would be SOL. But something like that is the only way I seeing the ACC issue getting resolved without a huge mess and then understand that the only reason the 8 that would move to the SEC and Big 10 would move is if they didn't get a network and fell behind monetarily to the degree that they would have to move. And if they don't get a network that is very possible by 2016.