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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 291849, member: 27"] I'll run some numbers later on this, but suffice it to say I disagree on this. Especially if the ACC does the inevitable and splits into North-South divisions for the Olympics sports. The president of FSU, Dr Eric Barron, agrees with me on this. [SIZE=3][I][SIZE=1][FONT=Verdana]3. Much is being made of the extra $2.9M that the Big 12 contract (which[/FONT][/SIZE][/I][I][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black][/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/SIZE][SIZE=3][I][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black]hasn’t been inked yet) gets over the ACC contract. Given that the Texas[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] schools are expected to play each other (the Big 12 is at least as Texas[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] centered than the ACC is North Carolina centered), the most likely[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] scenario has FSU playing Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, and West[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] Virginia on a recurring basis and the other teams sporadically (and one[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] more unnamed team has to join to allow the Big 12 to regain a championship[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] game), we realize that our sports teams can no longer travel by bus to[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] most games the estimate is that the travel by plane required by FSU to[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] be in the Big 12 appears to exceed the $2.9M difference in the contract [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] actually giving us fewer dollars than we have now to be competitive with[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] the Big 12 teams, who obviously do not have to travel as far. Any[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] renegotiated amount depends not just on FSU but the caliber of any other[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black] new team to the Big 12.[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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