Very good Discussion on the Lair with multiple points going back and forth and added Links to Think. Hard to know hat will eventually happen so will just summarize some Comments said in the Media.
Notre Dame Is Notre Dame:
Notre Dame signing the new ACC-ESPN Network Grant of Rights & Clauses tying it to ACC if they ever join a Conference has outcomes favorable for the ACC:
1. ND will want a stronger ACC not weaker and will work to choose another Program that will add true increase worth to the ACC Network Income.
2. ND is not afraid on Increased Competition and never has been as their Schedules proves every year being one the toughest.
3. ND is a better fit in the ACC than SEC or Big-10 Size wise, Private school Wise, and National Following selling out anywhere even in Neutral Venues.
4. ND and Texas always have had a close relationship among Higher Ups and especially AD.
5. ND will continue to play 5 ACC Teams to 2035
6. ND knows it may have to join a Conference to gain Access easier to NCS Playoffs and if so it will have to be the ACC until 2035 and far easier to Win ACC than B-10.
7. Anything NBC gives to ND yearly can me matched by ESPN-ACC Value
8. At some point in time, ND will join a Conference and still prefers to avoid the Big ten and this shows by signing Grant of Rights with the ACC until 2035.
TEXAS Situation:
1. UT is the Richest Income Program of all CFB
2. UT Can Go Independent and Remain The Most Profitable.
3. UT like ND knows easier to get into CFB NCS Playoffs in a Conference
4. ESPN runs the UT LHN Network and can absorb & merge Operations with New ACC-ESPN Network and with ND own TV Deals
5. UT may not like what Big-12 Expansion does especially if it invites in Houston or Programs that will take time to grow.
6. The Big-12 needs UT and OU but UT does not need the Big-12 due to being able to join ACC, B10, SEC, P-12 or go Independent
7. ND can help get UT for the ACC and UT could same to attract ND, and ND Rights is tied to ACC until 2035.
8. ND & UT would add great Value to the ACC to stay close to B-10 and SEC as far as Money Making better than P-12 or B-12 or going Independent for CFB NCS Invites when they expand to
6 to 8 Teams!
BIG-12 Problems or Solutions:
1. Big-12 Expansion as pushed by OU may not make UT happy and now ND ties to the ACC is a real alternative to get UT looking the ACC way.
2. Big-12 better expansion Opportunities Invites are Houston and CSU/BYU far easier than UCincy, Memphis, UConn, Temple or USF & UCF.
3. Big-12 Expansion North, Midwest, or Florida still spreads Big-12 Location even further form Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, BYU/CSU & Houston is easier to absorb Location wise.
4. Big-12 going North tougher to do with just two Schools and just makes location accommodations tougher unless they add 4 to 6 Programs.
5. Adding more than than just 2 Programs makes it hard for Conference members to make more money since divides more with less.
6. The Big-12 is in just 5 States and needs more States to expand to have a Big-12 Network. Even if adding New Schools might not add more Value if Schools have to divide up more with less and Network Income just as hard to keep up wtth SEC & Big-10 as ACC and Pac-12 Catch Up Challenges?
7. it is easier for OU or OKSU to leave Big-12 and join SEC, Big-10, ACC or PAC-12 than build up the Big-12. Or UT go Independent and keeps all its Money & LHN-ESPN or stay in Big-12 and let OU go?
8. If the Big-12 have enough Schools wanting to leave that can dissolve the Big-12 and all Agreements and all Contractual Obligations like Grants of Rights, so it may come down accept and more weaker Programs to GROW or accept all may have to GO should 4 School choose to leave for Big-10 or SEC.
9. UT can adjust anyway it wants so OU's move or Big-10 or SEC. Big-10 has talked about inviting Kansas to compliment Nebraska. SEC won't sit there if OU moves and can take OKSU anytime too. Pac-12 although having its own Network Problems still want a Central Time Zone and can enter into Network Agreement with a Big Media Partner.
10. WVU Boards Posters are frightful right now on what will happen to the Big-12 & OU or UT or Expansion. They wish they were in SEC, Big-10 or ACC The Dude is on a ledge as thin as an Razor Edge for Football Salvation. They follow Expansion like the burn prepare Couches, it is in their Morning Prayers right next to Mountain Mama Candle Statues just like the Cult at Penn State with JoePa's Statue Return Prayers Vigils.
Big-10 & SEC Plans:
1. After 2018 they will be making way more money for each Program within them then ACC, Big-12, and Pac-12.
2. They can make a counter move on other ACC too but Grants Rights makes that harder, Big-12 Schools far more vulnerable.
3. They can have big impacts on adding from 4 to 6 to 8 Teams or keeping CFB NCS Playoffs Invitations until they can expand to 16 or 18 Teams.
4. It is hard for any College President anywhere to turn down a Big Money Big-10 or SEC Invitation,
5. They can challenge Contractual Grants Of Rights as well in Courts should an Invited School or groups of Schools choose to accept SEC or B10 Invite and then wait and see?
Total CFB For Profit Reorganization & National Championship Playoffs Implications:
1. CFB Playoffs Invitations will expand from 4 to 6 to 8 teams someday due to increase demands for more money.
2. Power Conferences are better at 4 or 6 with 16 to 18 to 20 Teams not 5!
3. CFB could go into a Reorganization For Profit league as well making it more Economical by Reorganizing all Power Conferences, Add NCS Playoffs Invites, Go back to Regional Geographic Rivalries, like The NFL did when they merged and reorganized the NFL into NFC and AFC to reduce costs and increase Income.
4. The Big Obstacles will be SEC & BIG-10 that will say, we are doing great and why should we change if we can offer any School anytime way more Money, or just stay as we are and keeping doing better than ACC, Pac-12, or Big-12?
5. It would take a mighty unity effort for ACC, Big-12, and PAC-12 with ND and UT leading the way for cahnge and making a Total Reorganization Plan showing how they all can make CFB way more profitable by Reorganizing All Power Conference Schools and making it easier for Alumni, Students and Fans to Travel among Geographical Rivals for keeping Attendance and TV ratings higher, as well as reducing Costs in regulating Rosters Sizes, Coaching Salary Scales, and making NFL Parity Type among CFB.
6. However, that would mean the Top 30 Haves Programs doing great right now, would accept seeing how sharing with the many remaining HAVE NOTS and more Parity will be a Collective Good, but not for Dynasty Programs wanting not change anything for teh status quo a sit is now?
7. Yet, there are more College HAVE NOTS that can decide that kind of Reorganization than HAVES and Big-10 and SEC can't go it alone Nationally and Congress could step in changing all anyway with Federal Nexus Funding of Research, Financial Aid, and other Forms in intimidation to make change.
8. At the same time, Change happens in ways seldom expected or projected, and only when all can see they all can do better together. Network Money has also given the HAVE NOTS the ability to compete with the HAVES that keep raising Costs to maintain NCS Competitive Edge!
9. Why a FOR PROFIT Reorganization will make sense someday, just like it did for the NFL!
