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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1204689, member: 2531"] Fair enough about the not being TV execs. I might be asking too much from an internet board, but I am still curious about the unwavering faith in a conference network amongst the posters on the site. In response to your tree/pulp question: The cheapest way to make paper for a very large paper company to use Chinese trees and float the paper on a boat across the Pacific to LA in bulk, and then load it on a train to move it east. Unfortunately, that's one of the reason why the American paper industry isn't doing especially well. In response to the Network's willingness to pay: Your reasoning for vertical integration is flawed. If ESPN knows that the ACC is sitting on a gold mine and can credibly create its own network, thereby cutting ESPN out of the loop, why wouldn't ESPN up the payout to the smaller of the ACC's marginal gains from creating a network and the amount of value that ESPN derives from having access to the content? In response to "go it alone" v. partner: I would definitely partner with ESPN. We agree on that. However, I think that both the Pac-12's underwhelming results and the MTN's underwhelming results show the weakness of the model as a whole. If the model was inherently better, then I think that they would have seen more success. The B1G is the leader in conference revenue because, aside from the SEC, they have the most fans per school (by a long shot), and, until recently, the conference sold more rights than the SEC. Historically, the SEC returned a lot of rights back to the individual school (that way schools like Alabama would not be weighed down by schools like Vanderbilt), whereas the B1G was equitable. Therefore, one would expect the B1G to generate more revenue than the SEC, even if it had a slightly inferior model (I'm not saying that it necessarily does - I'm saying even if it did). In order to make things equal, one would have to compare total per school media revenue of all the schools in the B1G v. SEC (conference revenue and otherwise). I'm not sure who is more dominant in that regard, but I do know that the SEC would look a lot better. [/QUOTE]

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