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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5144393, member: 1145"] ESPN doing anything to prop up the Big 12 is ed business. The BIUg 12 is mostly Fox. So the best interests of ESPN are to help the ACC become a larger league at the expense of the Big 12 as the next Big 12 deal draws near. I have read several places that Utah has not signed anything for long term. If that is so, then it explains all that talk over the late spring and early summer that Utah was exploring leaving for the ACC. If Utah has done that ESPN should have made it happen by agreeing to redo the SACC contract favorably for the ACC. That 1 move would make it certain that any Big 12 team that could get into the ACC would make the move as the old Big 12 deal expires. That would allow ESPN to create a Super Sized ACC to advertise as the national conference rivaling the BT in that regard as well as in non-revenue sports. I think such planning by ESPN would include getting KU into the SEC, because that would greatly help with SEC basketball TV numbers and power ranking. I think that the SEC then would lean hard to making Colorado its 18th because of its Big 8 days and its being the only school in its state that would be in a Major conference. ESPN must program for all time zones and sports. That means among other things that ESPN needs as many schools as it can get into Major conferences that it broadcasts which are located in MST or PST. That would allow ESPN to arrange Major college football and basketball late night starts (per EST and CST) for both Friday and Saturday, if the ACC gets Utah, Arizona, and Arizona ST while the SEC takes Colorado. That would leave ESPN with total control over major college sports in MST and with an important presence in CA, which would keep the BT from controlling the West. Do that and then also take a direct shot at the BT by getting Cincinnati into the ACC, and ESPN will have outflanked Fox and the BT. [/QUOTE]

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