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Message: [QUOTE="Chris02M, post: 4717691, member: 454"] with espn laying off tons of employees, it would be a bad look for them to pay additional for us to expand right now and we would need to get a block of Pac schools to all agree to join for it to make sense. You need a minimum of 4 schools and more likely 6 to create a western wing to create the all coast conference. You could then try to get ND to amend the scheduling alliance since they want to have coast to coast exposure they can be placed in the west pod for football and fold in the Stanford game so they could do 6 games instead of 5 yearly. You can also get creative on the scheduling with a 9 game schedule to get more $ since espn has to have a number they had valued the pac 12 at in total. For arguments sake say it was 273 for the 10 members minus 23 as i would have Colorado in tier 2. there are tiers: Oregon, Washington, Arizona St, Stanford- acc pro rate say 37.5mil per yr by themselves with a slight increase folding into existing acc. Utah, California, Arizona- 23 mil each ------------------------------------------------ Oregon State, Washington St-15.5 mil each I think we would take the top 4 right now no questions asked and would result in a increase of around 10 mil per school minus some additional expenses not including acc network increase. If we took 6 members, it would probably be a little bit less but a decent increase The bottom 2 are destined for the mountain west conference unless Oregon and Washington can pull a Virginia. The scheduling/acc network thing is an option but only if Oregon and Washington stay in the PAC whatever they are now Where it gets tricky is do we want to have the option of picking a few from the big 12 down the road before they have another contract completed or will we assume that by then there will be some defections. [/QUOTE]

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