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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4701913, member: 5685"] That isn't even close to the amount of money needed to advocate the payouts you are proposing. IMO the future budgets for the networks will go toward acquiring partial TV rights for the B16 and SEC. Those payouts will keep rising, but the overall budgets will not. Which means the amount of money going out to non B16 and SEC teams will start going down. The gap will only get larger. There is no way to close the gap as there isn't enough money to go around. Edit To expand further on what I think will eventually happen for TV: Package 1: Saturday Night Game of the Week (likely CBS/NBC). This is the first pick and the 7:30 game. Package 2: Division Game of the Week (likely ESPN/FOX). So if the conferences go to six divisions of four, that means 6 games to be split between Noon or 3:30. For example the regional market game will be on ABC/FOX, the best out of market game on ESPN/FS1, the other game on ESPN+/FSG. Package 3: Friday Night Game (likely Amazon/Apple). This will be at best the 3rd best game and at worst 8th best game. Then the conference network would have games at Noon, 3:30, and 7:30. Before conference play there will be weeks where you have several more games. During conference season that covers most games since some teams will have byes. But there will be weeks where you have a 12th game. In both cases these can be streamed by the conference network. With several TV packages the networks will be exhausting their budgets to acquire the B16/SEC rights. Which leaves AACesque money to be used on the ACC/B12/P10 TV rights. While the left behinds are making $30Mish now, in 15 years they might be making $15Mish while the B16/SEC are making $150Mish. There is only so much money to go around. Even if the ACC/B12/P10 TV rights are worth more, there is no money left for the payout. [/QUOTE]

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