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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5044186, member: 405"] I've answered you 5 times. ESPN (and Fox) wouldn't mind 2 super leagues because it would simplify future contract negotiations with the conferences. College football is soon going to be unionized, and not long after that, players will become employees of universities. Then today's NIL will turn into something like how the draft doesn't negotiate every single first round pick's salary like they used to have to do; there are designated salary slots. A #10 pick in the first round gets this much money. Pick #20 gets that much. The ACC gets paid much less than the SEC, also an ESPN property. The Big 10 gets paid much more than the Pac-12, two Fox properties, before they were encouraged to go out of business by the networks. As cable loses subscribers, and as even streaming is reaching saturation point, as they ALL try to keep raising their fees, the amount of money being paid for college sports is going to plateau, and then fall. The Big 10 and the SEC are trying to ensure they get most of the money, as evidenced by their recent gambit that their conferences should get automatic, and extra, births in the future college playoffs. The new ESPN college playoff contract pays almost 2/3 of the money being paid to the ACC under a 16 year deal. ESPN blinked when politicians in Oklahoma and Texas threatened to bring an anti-trust suit if the SEC didn't take Okie State and Texas A&M (or was it Texas Tech) a couple years ago. ESPN gave a huge raise to the Big 12 under their contract, when they could have voided it, or renegotiated it down. Why would they do that? Economically, it makes no sense. Why pay more for an inferior product? Because ESPN remembered the State of Virginia threatening an anti-trust action if Syracuse, and not Virginia Tech, were added when they raided the Big East 20 years ago. Also in that interest, ESPN avoided political problems and paid up. When Florida State, and then Clemson, sued to get out of the ESPN contract with the ACC, ESPN should have been the first one to spring into action and join the lawsuit. Why didn't they? Tell us. Now, we find out that this GOR until 2036 is really only until 2026, if ESPN declines to pick up the option if Clemson and Florida State find their way to the SEC. If ESPN can void the $1.8 billion contract they have with the ACC, or let it lapse in 2 years, that frees up a lot of money to lock down the expanded SEC's rights, and make sure they all make even more money. You're just in denial. Tell me what question I didn't answer. Be explicit. You've said nothing so far, just "no, you don't know". [/QUOTE]

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