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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5466216, member: 1145"] What is happening is corporate media acting in concert with their Pet conferences to squeeze other conferences toward death so the Pet conferences can take what they want. And what each of the already Super Rich leagues (BT and SEC) want is an end game in which they (between them) have TOTAL control over the Top Tier of CFB. Most likely that final stage cannot be achieved until ND is 'forced' into 1 of the 2 and between them they have closer to 50 than 40 members. They will present their 2 league Top Tier as representing the whole country because teams from both coasts will be included, as will teams from all the most important 'flyover' states in terms of CFB. What the pair are desperate to do is add rather quickly so many of the top values in the ACC that there is NO way that anybody could even dream it possible that there ever could be a 3rd Major conference left standing built from the ACC and Big 12. I do not see any way that the Big 12 ever could be the basis of a 3rd Major conference left standing. But if it could, it definitely could not unless it could secure several of the ACC most valuable members: the very one the VT and SE are determined to take. If what was briefly called the ACC Magnificent 7 (UVA, VT, UNC, NCSU, Clemson, FSU, Miami) would remain together and act uniformly to cull the ACC's dead weight and replace with real value from the Big 12, we would see a 3rd Major conferencce that would be left standing. That would entail the ACC members agreeing to do with less until freed of ESPN in 2036. Because ESPN is so deep into serving what the SEC wants that it might not even raise the ACC TV money if ND became a full football member. But the reality is that that surviving Major conference ACC would not have Wake or BC, and might not have another couple schools currently in the ACC. [/QUOTE]

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