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[QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 422968, member: 1091"]
Doctorbombay - ha ha - don't waste your time on a WVA board.  My view has changed in that it's really a battle between 2 networks - ESPN & FOX.  It's really ESPN's move right now, not SEC or B12.

My view of importance:

1. If a 16 team conference is the end game, the PAC12 must expand an do so next to catch up with the B1G & SEC - so where does it go to get it's next 4 teams?
2. Does ESPN want to give up all rights to the NE corridor and "allow" the B1G - and more importantly FOX, to move further into its Virginia & North Carolina where it has a virtual lock on the market right now?

If I were ESPN - I would want to "lock out" FOX out of the most important and fastest growing markets in the nation - the Southeast.  To me this make the ACC really important.  Keeping FOX at bay.  If they only get Rutgers & Marland, no real harm done.  If they allow FOX to make further inroads into the south - to me that would be the dumbest move ESPN could ever make as a sports network.

So this is why I am saying that we need to just wait and see.  By the way, doesn't FOX have the media rights to broadcast B12 games?  If so, doesn't the potential future outcomes in conference realignment get more interesting than just 1 outcome?
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