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Message: [QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 651541, member: 2043"] I've read some of your posts on the WVU board, and TXBeerme has an incredibly difficult time understanding why no ACC school looks at the Big XII as more attractive than the ACC in any way. He's a lost cause. WVU is making more money than they ever did in the Big East, but the glamor of the Big XII will wear off after travelling out there over a long period of time. As the guy at Mr. SEC noted, after all this realignment of the Big 5 conferences, most are still organized logically geographically with the exception of WVU being the only fly over school that has to fly over 2 other conferences (SEC/B1G) to get to theirs. The current configuration of the Big XII isn't sustainable long term for that reason. I too would accept WVU into the ACC. Their passion is impressive. Right now they are behaving like a woman scorned, but I think they would be a contributor in the ACC. They still have delusions about getting into the SEC though. And you are correct in that the incestuous relationship between the ACC and Raycom will work in the favor of both in getting a channel done. The same people who run Raycom created the bowl game in Charlotte and helped make the ACC football championship game successful in Charlotte. They have also been broadcasting ACC basketball for decades. Raycom will work with the ACC and ESPN to get this done. One thing I'm not so sure about and disagree with the Sports Business article is that the Syndicated Broadcast network and the ACC Channel can't coexist. I don't know that the ACC wants to pull the plug totally on Broadcast Television. Raycom has built a syndicated broadcast network that reaches 50 million viewers nationwide. I'm not sure that this is bad thing. The content today is basketball and football. I expect the ACC Cable Channel to just add more content that was headed the ESPN3 direction. This includes lacrosse, baseball, soccer, etc. I also read somewhere that the ACC was looking to regionalize the ACC Channel as well. This was a different approach than the other conference channels. I tend to think that the ACC and ESPN have already taken into account the current Raycom model in their Channel Plans and that this doom and gloom is overstated. [/QUOTE]

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