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Message: [QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 4732348, member: 683"] Too many variables to contemplate a long-term plan. Instead look at Stages: Stage 1 (2020s) - add the western trio and maybe a 4th on the cheap. Take a few years to evaluate the travel issues, etc. Stage ends around the time the B12 contract expires, which is coincidentally when the GOR may become affordable for some schools to break. Stage 2 (early 2030s) - either replace schools that leave, expand, or stay pat. We'll have an established western routine that can be filled in with B12 schools if we can offer a better deal, even if only for a few years. Stage 3 (mid 2030s) - time to renew the GOR or disband the conference. Hard to predict which way it goes. Will the scene be Big 2 or bust/breakaway from NCAA? Or will there be a place for a relevant #3? If so, look at a merge of whatever is left of ACC/B12 after they get picked over by the goliaths. [/QUOTE]