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[QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 814515, member: 683"]
Does membership in the conference constitute a committment to play a set of conference games each season?  Or are they only "locked in" once a schedule comes out?
 
If the former, could a case be made that each game involving Maryland (8 FB games per season, 16-19 or so BB games, and maybe low- to non-revenue games) over a certain time period qualify as total losses since MD is reneging on them? 
 
Using conservative and easy math numbers for one season:
8 games x 40,000 tickets x $50 apiece = $16 million loss for FB at the gate
16 games x 15,000 tickets x $100 apiece = $24 million loss for BB at the gate
 
There's $4o mill in gate revenue alone.  You'd have to go further and deduct Maryland's share, but that could be balanced by adding in other losses (parking, concessions, etc.).  Once you add in the price for TV rights of games that won't be shown, you're over the 52 mark easily (the TV contract alone may do this, might even dwarf it for all I know).
 
Sure the ACC got Louisville to fill those slots, but the loss was already incurred before that happened.
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