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[QUOTE="Bryanw1995, post: 4672945, member: 9107"]
I bet that Phillips is right now feverishly working on a full or nearly full ACC-Pac merger.  His issue is the Secret 7.  He knows their price (freedom) for their votes, and it's too steep.  Could things change?  Absolutely.  Especially if it's just 2 or 4 departures instead of 7+, even more so if UW and UO get a final stiff-arm from the B1G and have to regroup with plan B.  I think they'd rather join the ACC and take a bunch of 3k mile flights than join the "truck stop" big 12 (not my phrase but it is a funny one).

The best solution is to just skip the foreplay and get right to the main course.  Give everybody a 1 time "join the P2" free pass.  Both of the P2 go to ~ 20, and everyone left forms 1 x 28 team Conference 3.  Everybody wins in that scenario.  BC, WF, Oregon St all get enhanced stability and similar revenues to what they would have earned without any moves.  FSU, UNC, Clemson, etc etc get the magic p2 invites then get whomped on for a decade or 2.  The P2 schools get some new easy W's every season, well except for that nasty Clemson game ofc.  And ESPN gets a true National Reach for the New ACC with their ACCN.  It would probably be more big than ACC or Pac, and the HQ would probably be in Irving instead of NC, but does that really matter all that much if your new Conference has a whole lot of your old Conference mates in it?
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