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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 4893988, member: 622"] I am not exactly sure how your response ties in to my comments. But I will play anyway. The B1G does pay more than the ACC, but not what you think. That is the short version of my comment. To your point, the issue is that FSU cannot afford to leave. No conference will buy them out so they can leave early. Either the price will be too high or the ACC retains their TV rights. FSU owes the ACC many years, like it or not. Using your estimation that FSU is a billion dollar asset is wild at best. If you are valuing football or the AD, then be clear about it. If you are referring to their annual budget, you are low, especially if you are looking at time (10+ years). That does not matter. FSU's TV rights are locked up with the ACC and ESPN. It's not an easy break or it would have been done by now. Further, FSU does NOT have a landing spot. Sure, we can speculate they are talking behind the scenes but with our a reasonable mechanism by which they can leave the ACC on the cheap, it's all hot air. No private financing will occur. That balloon was floated and ignored. It's illegal to mix for-profit with a non-profit in the present context. Besides, no team can guarantee performance in the future let alone on a new conference. Further, the trial balloon was for $100MM, that too, was laughed at and ignored otherwise. Besides, no conference and no network wants to be the one to break a GOR as that will weaken their own GORs. Think it through, my fellow Orange fan. Cutting off one's now to spite one's face is never wise. To your point about wanting a better place, who doesn't? Wanting things does not make things happen. Putin wants Ukraine, half of Europe, and more of Asia. It's not happening. China wants their weapons to work right. Still not happening. Even bigger, some on this board want Jennifer Anniston on their arm. Nope, never going to happen. (@#&$_@!). (O.K., I knew I never had a chance.) Yes, the playoff committee made a #&@_@ move against the ACC AND fSU, who deserves a slot over Alabama. Life happens. Move on. The FSU AD has toned down his blowhard ways since the summer, cooler heads at FSU prevailed. Anyway, believe the internet blowhards all you want. When the GOR is short and FSU can work out a deal, we will see what happens. It is more likely that ESPN makes the ACC much more palatable to stay together. You see, ESPN cannot afford to lose the east coast to Fox or anyone else. They make money off the ACC. Selling off valuable money generating properties is what you do when you can either buy better properties(which ESPN cannot do) or you are going out of business (which ESPN is not doing). [/QUOTE]

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