(07-23-2021 12:38 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Outlandish post warning:

If I’m the ACC commish I swing for the fences here and try to use ESPN as a partner. Sell the channel on an 18 team super conference, and target Notre Dame (stay with me here, lol) and three SEC East mainstays: Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.

Any of those schools moving to ACC is crazy on the surface, but while the SEC will make mega cash, it’s inevitably going to cannibalize itself, even with expanded playoffs. Would take big picture thinking, and of course the money would need to be right, over S-E-C “it just means more” rah rah. Will ND face $$ realities and give in to modernity?

This would mean ESPN would have to majorly up its pay to ACC but IMO would be well worth it to now truly have a stranglehold on college football, and in one swoop have two indisputable major leagues under its umbrella (mega SEC is great but will fans get bored if no one can compete with them?) while also officially killing Fox’s Big 12 as the SEC takes the best of the rest replacing those who’d go ACC.