(08-09-2022 09:29 AM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  

(08-09-2022 08:57 AM)JRsec Wrote:  It doesn't mean they want to, but that the option will be clear and tempting especially in light of the B1G's recruiting access issue.

Given the level of this risk - the SEC having an end-game goal of becoming NFL Lite and destroying the B1G in doing so - shouldn't the acquisition of UNC/FSU/Clemson/UVA/Miami/etc. be the B1G's top priority? To the point of pursuing every avenue to blow up the GoR as soon as possible? The B1G is either working on a plan to do so...or doesn't believe the SEC is an existential threat to them.

This is the biggest and most interesting question to me in the entire realignment game.

Yes, but without ESPN having a stake in the B1G that just became a virtual impossibility until after 2030. In the meantime, ESPN can consolidate remaining PAC and B12 pieces and use some to prop up an ACC value which permits those key schools to shift to the SEC. And UVa isn't a key school as they are way down the value list. Florida State, Clemson, Viginia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Louisville, N.C. State and likely Duke when hoops are included are ahead of Virginia.