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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 254155, member: 636"] Agreed. While I believe ESPN lost their edge in terms of sports reporting long ago, one thing you can say about them is that on the business side of sports they are unmatched. With the SEC's best Saturday afternoon games going to CBS until 2025, ABC/ESPN needs a strong ACC to air in southern states in the 3:30 time slot. They, in essence, are already overpaying for the current Big 12 product to have teams from the states of Texas and Oklahoma available to air to the southwestern states at the 3:30 time slot. They will do the same to ensure that the states of Florida and Georgia and to a lesser extent North Carolina and Virginia have meaningful games to air at the Saturday 3:30 slot as well. All bets could be off by 2025, if ESPN were to get the SEC exclusively. But by that time, maybe the pendulum has swung away from the SEC? Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]