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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 4989449, member: 622"] The Premise is a fool's errand. The sarcasm was spot on. While I, and most everyone else on both sides of the matter, would love the issue to go away, simply cutting a deal invalidates all GORs, with are the cornerstones of the ridiculous TV deals. Once the GOR is broken, anyone can break them. The networks don't want to upset the apple cart. The conferences don't want to upset the apple cart. The only team that wants to upset the apple cart is FSU and only for a better payday. Any deal that benefits FSU weakens the argument that GORs are strong and legitimate. FSU has no money, even their horribly low-ball attempt to get out last summer for $100MM was conditioned on FSU getting a better deal with the B1G or SEC, neither of which will get an increase for taking FSU until a new deal is negotiated years down the road. I say it was conditioned on FSU landing in one of the two because the payback was to be paid out of new TV revenues received by FSU, over time. Ten years was floated by FSU, if I recall. Since no other conference could have paid FSU more than the ACC than the two, FSU could only pay the ACC back if they made more money...because they cannot manage the money they have to begin with! That said, if FSU can leave for $100MM, any other team may leave for $100MM. ESPN has rights and they will not leave their rights on the table for FSU's benefit. Besides, the point stands, if FSU can leave in 2027 as many allege, it is simply much better financially to stay out and leave when they may without paying for a legal battle nor paying an exit fee, nor buying back their TV rights. Simply put, the Big 12 air-headed talking pieces pretending to have inside and/or technical knowledge that every school and every conference and every network has looked into but their respective legal teams cannot discover should probably not be taken too seriously. [/QUOTE]

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