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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 990918, member: 628"] Well, I was certainly working in a bit of hyperbole. But, generally speaking many of the moves you attribute to TV went down the way they did because of the 12-team NCAA rule and the necessity of needing a magic 12 to make a conference championship game happen (which just so happens to bring in large TV dollars). Certainly the Big 8/SWC merger. And Nebraska to the B1G, which exacerbated the instability in the Big XII, which led to the Pac-12 scooping up Colorado on the way to 12, etc. I mean without that stupid, arbitrary rule the SEC may have never added Arkansas, hell maybe the ACC stops at Miami, and things end up playing out a lot differently over the last decade-plus. [/QUOTE]