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Message: [QUOTE="newmexicuse, post: 21426, member: 57"] Well for awhile it looked the move by Pitt & ourselves just might be a catalyst to getting the four 16 team superconferences that everybody has been predicting would occur for the last few years. It should now be apparant that it is not the individual schools or even the individual conferences driving in the superconference direction. The bottom line is the TV dollars. The Pac 12 has a big enough deal that they could afford to tell a school like Oklahoma to take a hike...at least for the time being. Texas & ND say, well, maybe, but only on our own terms. It nows looks like the Big 12 will be good to go...at least for awhile. The BE will ultimately survive or not based upon TV $$$. Many here seem to want to see the BE die. Why ?? To justify our move and re-inforce visions of our own importance ? To confirm that our move was correct & that we simply didn't panic & desert our conference ? To make our recruiting easier ? There is no reason to wish the BE ill will. We made a decision that we believe is best for us. Whether or not that turns out to be a good decision should not be dependent upon the death of a conference. In the end there will be four 16 team superconferences if and when the TV $$$ want to make it so. As for us, yes, I am glad we made the move. It seems like it was something that needed to happen sooner or later. It removes doubts about our future and an eventual landing place. It probably will increase our revenues. The ACC in terms of member schools is a good fit for us, especially now that there are a reasonable number of natural former BE member rivals for us to play against unlike the first go around six years ago. There seems to be a clamor on this forum for the ACC to get to 16 and be done with it. There should be no rush to make that happen. No reason not to stay at 14 until the landscape gets unsettled again & we can add the two teams that make sense and are not just added for expansion's sake. But, it should now be clear that we are a catalyst for nothing. [/QUOTE]

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