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Message: [QUOTE="supp, post: 2808081, member: 702"] Reads a bit like a hit piece. Larry Scott may spend money like a teenage Arab but $31 million per team is nothing to sneeze at and it is definitely not what is keeping the PAC-12 from competing. The PAC-12 office getting a share equal to the schools is not that unusual. I think the ACC does the same. Big 12 and ACC distributions are similar if not even less than the PAC-12 and they're competing for championships in football. What's left out is that football is cyclical. PAC-12 is in a down cycle, as is the B1G with all of their millions. And even with the conferences that are supposedly thriving, it's a handful of teams carrying the flag. If there is a sea change taking place, and I stress if, it's the rise of a select number of teams whose success is seemingly independent of their conference mates. Alabama is really competing against Clemson and Ohio State and Oklahoma rather than Mississippi State or Tennessee. [/QUOTE]