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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 4554753, member: 622"]
Points to ponder:

1) the GOR locks the TV rights of UT ad OU to the Big 12 and Fox. What incentive is there for the Big 12 and Fox to relinquish those rights?

2) Likewise, the GOR locks in the TV rights of each ACC team to the ACC and to ESPN.  If ESPN rolled the ACC into the SEC, there would be no major issue as ESPN owns the rights to both conferences and the ACC would get more money.  However, if the B1G wanted some teams, the deal would have to equate to each team breaking even or getting ahead.  In a third alternative, any team not being absorbed into either the SEC or B1G, those teams would seem to hold sway as rights holders of the leaving teams' TV rights.  It remains to be seen if enough teams can dissolve the conference and the deal, but that would raise legal issues and would get costly, from a legal standpoint.  A seriously generous negotiated settlement may be the only way out in event of the third alternative.

3) The ACC could hold its own and remain a viable conference with minimal territory on the east coast and possibly some middle-American territory.  I am not sure a viable conference can be patched together with both coasts and nothing in the middle.  It seems weird , no natural rivalries east-west weise) and no on will stay up past midnight to watch the late games between Utah and Washington State.
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