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[QUOTE="AcAndAc, post: 5368776, member: 10310"]
What if the ACC deal here is the precursor for what the SEC and B1G want... an "eat what you kill" system. Maybe we will see the B1G take FSU/UNC... and that's it.  No more moves. Meanwhile, the ACC is saved by the new distribution model because Clemson stays, SMU rises, and everyone else is happy enough.

Meanwhile, you now have FSU in the B1G and Texas in the SEC.  Texas could certainly champion this in the SEC.  So they do a modified version of the ACC... with 70% equal, 10% success, 20% viewership.  If so, Florida starts to get the advantage on Florida State.  So now FSU starts to bemoan that the B1G is still paying equal shares (and you know they will), while Florida's advantage in the SEC is to FSU's detriment.  Now, the once united/peaceful B1G adopts a similar 60/20/20 model.

From there... both conferences can start expanding again because the model forces new members to have to carry more of their own weight by either winning or bringing viewership.  Eventually, the B1G/SEC divide up all the schools willing to play by the NCAA settlement, with the clear haves and sorta haves fused together... and only the have nots left out.   20 teams will be winners on the field and financially, while 30-50 teams will be happy to just be part of it... occasionally surging to a 10-win season, but rarely really mattering in the big picture.
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