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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5452208, member: 1145"] Lots of very poor people justify continuing to live as they do - not trying to cut corners on spending, not taking a new job because it alone can't make them hit the next tax bracket, etc. - because they see that the rich do not do such things. And so they make certain they remain as they are. The guy making 500K a year does not need to have a Staycation in order to live in a very nice, safe neighborhood with a very well respected and safe school district. But the guy who makes 80K per year will either cut every possible corner of spending, and that may include having nothing but a Staycation every single year, or else he lives in an area with unsafe and poor schools, or perhaps he chooses to live in an area far away from seemingly everything because its is safe and affordable. The SEC and BT are the already super rich. They literally can afford to pass up many opportunities to add to their TV numbers because those numbers are very high regardless of opponents. Ohio St vs Ohio U will draw more viewers than Cuse vs BC almost any year because Ohio St is Ohio St. So Ohio St can schedule really weak OOC foes and still have TV numbers through the roof. And when a league has multiple Ohio States, that league will be Super rich and have huge TV numbers even when OOC games tend to be against 1AA schools, the MAC, and CUSA, and even when that league cannot win a national Championship for a decade or more. Everybody else must work overtime to stay afloat trying to compete against the super rich. Those who fail at that contest in this era are doomed to some level of destruction. The Pac was the Home league of the Rose Bowl, and see what it is now. Lack of TV viewers did that. SEC and BT are guaranteed huge numbers of viewers because of the schools they have. The ACC does not have nearly enough such schools. In fact, the ACC has no school that is equal to a Texas or Bama or LSU or Ohio St or Michigan, or Penn St, etc. FSU is in that next rung down, with Clemson perhaps also in that rung. So the ACC, which has a lower bottom than either SEC or BT, will either do things that secure larger TV audiences, or by that 2036 date the ACC will then either become the next SWC (totally dead ) or the next Pac (totally gutted and reduced in status permanently). I have spent decades making the case on UNC boards for UNC football to schedule as aggressively in OOC as can be arranged - including to play the Home game at a neutral site if that is what it takes to the most esteemed names in the sport often. [/QUOTE]

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