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Message: [QUOTE="JimBoston, post: 4912894, member: 1312"] Forget GORs for a second. There is a way for ESPN to reduce costs. For the sake of this example, lets assume the ACC gets $30 million per school, the SEC $60 million per school and the Big 12 gets $30 million per school with $10 million of that picked up by FOX. If the SEC, Big 10, and Big 12 go to 20 schools, they could take: SEC 4 schools, Big 10 2 schools (FOX), and Big 12 4 schools. So the ACC is getting ~$530 million now and ESPN can move them to other conferences and pay $320 million to 8 former top ACC brands with 2 going to FOX. Yes, they lose ACCN value, but in the long run, its going to be hard to move the network to a direct to consumer model anyway. Why wouldn't ESPN be OK with this as they save over $200 million per year? [/QUOTE]