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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1822372, member: 652"]
What the Big XII is actually trying to do is the following. Get ESPN/Fox to talk extension with 10 members right now at the same price they are paying the conference currently.

The Big XII has an expansion clause in their current agreement that ESPN/Fox would pay the conference an additional 250 million for every school up to 4 that the conference adds. That money wouldn't be for good schools either it would come from American schools. People might ask why would the Big XII try to leverage its TV partners to pay an extra 500 million dollars when th conference would be watering down the product.

Well the answer is ESPN pays peanuts for the American TV rights. They pay about 50million dollars a year for the entire conference. The Big XII adding Cincinnati and another school would cost ESPN and Fox an extra 250 million dollars to add a mediocre TV draw.

Thus, the Big XII is bluffing now they will expand to try and get ESPN and Fox to extend their current deal where the networks are paying the 10 team conference a deal as if their were 12 teams.
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