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Message: [QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4740135, member: 6535"] What's ESPN's interest in this, though? I mean, hypothetically let's say the ACC were to add UT Permian Basin and St. Anselm, and lose FSU and Clemson. Surely, ESPN would be entitled to something based on the drop in quality TV inventory? I thought it was the exit fee went to the ACC to be split up by schools, and the TV rights were still held by the ACC and thus, through the end of the contract, ESPN. So all of FSU's home games, including SEC/B1G conference games, would be on ESPN. Then the media money they got in the new conference, if any, would go to the ACC to split up. But given that their media rights wouldn't be theirs, the new conference probably wouldn't give them money until the media rights were available. [/QUOTE]