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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5122406, member: 1145"]
No matter what the commissioners of SEC and BT want to tell the Big 12 to make it feel all puffed up, right now based on money and total support from a network, there are only 2 truly MAJOR conferences. And only the ACC has the ability to retain its status as Major.

One thing all that means is that as of now, not a single school located in MST is in a Major conference. Neither SEC nor BT have even the lightest need of anything, TV fans or ticket buying fans or recruits, from MST. But the ACC definitely could use Utah, Arizona, and Arizona ST, especially as all 3 have large numbers of alums living in CA.  That trio of large AAU schools would make the perfect geographic bridge between Dallas and CA.

I think the ACC must prepare for a future of saving itself as MAJOR with aggression to expand ibti extra large size (perhaps even 24) by taking from the Big 12 when its deal is up (and perhaps also adding AAU member USF with its 50K students). And doing that would give ESPN, or after 2036 a new number of teams to show from across all 4 times zones. That also would require the ACC to be involved with an Amazon or Apple top show the rest of the huge inventory. Those entities almost certainly would pay only for numbers drawn, meaning an FSU would always get much more from them than would a Wake or BC.

I do not see the 17 team ACC surviving even to 2036 intact and thus a truly Major conference. The ACC must be aggressive to save itself.
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