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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 4688464, member: 622"]
OU and UT we’re leaving either way, both parties agreed that leaving one year early was convenient once the incentive was sufficient.  They still paid 2.1X the TV revenue to leave on year early.

Both OU and UT wanted out once they made the decision to join the SEC but the four year rights buyback was too much.  They could have left but without the rights buyback the Big12 would have owned the rights to all OU and UT home games until the end of the GOR.  As it is, the Big12 is an ugly mess this year

The SEC also refused to consider the teams until the rights were SEC rights.  The SEC was not going to pay teams for games they cannot broadcast.

USC and UCLA decided to wait out the Pac12 GOR so they don’t have to buy back their media rights.

The above is why I am not concerned with FSU and Clemson jumping early.  With 13 years left on the GOR and a 3X annual media rights buyout, the cost is generally prohibitive.  By the time the ACC media rights deal is up for renegotiation, ESPN will either make a solid offer to keep the band together or they will forfeit assets to competitors and lose the northeast college sports market.

By that time, the SEC and B1G will realize they need more cannon fodder to keep the big name teams winners, their simply is not enough wins as the conferences are made up for each big name to remain a big time competitor.

And we have not discussed that the B12 will by then have created perpetual winners.
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