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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4902120, member: 173"] The way the PAC-12 ended up, split between the Big 10 and Big 12 - I think we're tracking towards both the Big Ten and SEC splitting teams nationally and setting up some type of regional divisions. Then ideally they negotiate TV rights as a unified group, so the gigantic disparities in TV revenues disappear. Owners like the Maras realized in the short term the NY Giants could make more from TV alone, but in the long run banding together would maximize revenues which is part of why the NFL negotiates TV rights so differently than baseball. College athletics faces a choice - either figure out a way to get to the NFL model and remain as national sports - or continue the way they have been going and become increasingly regional like baseball. [/QUOTE]