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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5043021, member: 405"] I don't understand why ESPN would want to kill the ACC. The sports are competitive at the top level, they have great brands with higher academic prestige. The advertising demographics would seem very desirable to me (attracting more upscale advertising revenues). From a programming stand point, don't you want a local group of teams to kick off your audience engagement for the rest of the day? It just makes sense, time zone wise, and it's obviously where the most people in the country live. It's their LOCAL teams for the whole East Coast. Some of the best colleges in America, with huge alumni followings. Why would you try to destroy that? Why would you throw away that asset? Is the thinking that ESPN and Fox will each own one conference, only have 1 set of schools to deal with in their contracts? Maybe they foresee each of their 2 super leagues as having players who are union employees of the schools. Collective bargaining for player salaries, with slots like they have in the NFL by pick. It's really hard to make sense of why they would kill off sports on both coasts. It's only where the most people live. I don't see how this survives any type of anti-trust scrutiny. And maybe I'm just a grumpy old guy, but I seem to feel an anti-corporate sentiment in the air, over what everybody now sees as terrible price gouging and shrink-flation ever since COVID. I smell anti-trust fever in the air if the Democrats win big in 2024. They have to bring real change that betters the lives of people - lower prices, lower interest rates, relief from credit card debt and it's "used to be illegal in the 1980s" loan sharking rates that they charge today. Credit cards keep people permanently in debt, just like education debt, and hollowed out bankruptcy laws. Maybe good change will come. Maybe it will save college sports. I kind of see it going all corporate within 10 years, though; maybe sooner. [/QUOTE]

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