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Message: [QUOTE="atom58, post: 1595982, member: 5312"] I posted on this site before about the proposed "Airplane Conference" of 1959 which the Pentagon vetoed: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconference[/URL] These days most long distance travel is by plane but not so much back in the 1950s when schools were in more geographically contiguous conferences - that explains the funny name Airplane Conference because it would have stretched from coast to coast. Interestingly enough, the "Superconference" idea came from Raycom at the behest of FSU's then-conference the Metro in 1990. We jumped into the ACC anyway because the $$ was better in the ACC than the SEC (basketball $$ > football $ in those days) and the trip to the mythical NC game was less perilous. It was still a good decision despite the perceived football weakness in the ACC. FSU's presence increased ACC football TV $$. [I]Now with 4 new HCs the ACC will soon be the strongest in football that it has ever been[/I]. TV money drove the recent expansion with the SEC being the first 12 team 2 division conference with a $$ making title game from TV $$ between the 2 division winners. It was so successful, it caused the ACC, Pac-10, and Big 10 to expand to 12 members to have their own title game, and resulted in the death of the old Southwest conference as 4 Texas teams left to join the Big 8 so they could have a title game too. The CFB playoff is now putting more stress on the conferences as there are only 4 spots for 5 conference winners. BTW, I hope the NCAA prevents the Big 12 from staging a title game with only 10 members. That would force them to be like the other 4 conferences. Cable/satellite TV $$ is still good despite loss of viewership b/c we are still under ESPN contract until 2027. What the long term trends will be is unknown. It will not affect conference $$ for a long while, if ever. Finally if ND ever fully joins, they just may bring Navy with them as Navy kept ND afloat (mixed metaphor) during WW II. [/QUOTE]

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