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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5087255, member: 27"] They apparently have good lawyers in Utah and the B12 was desperate. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Futahs-b12-conference-deal-v0-4fohfey860nc1.png%3Fwidth%3D1668%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0eac0c080af45cd024e30d21c875d9e4332676a2[/URL] The question is, were any of the other B12 additions as smart? If the ACC expands, I believe it will expand to an even number. It wasn‘t a coincidence it went from 15 to 18 last time around. That odd team makes scheduling for basketball really hard and almost ensures a conference team has a weekend off all through the conference season. That is bad for business. Weekends are when the crowds are biggest and the TV numbers are the highest. We Syracuse fans know this all too well from last season, when we draw the short straw and had to sit out the last weekend of the season. If these reports are correct and ESPN is emphasizing TV market size and increased subscribers to ACCN to a bump in revenue, I would think the other school would be from a market the ACC is not in that is a big one. Probably San Diego State? Colorado if they have the same provision Utah has when they joined the B12. I don’t think they do though. It all makes sense when you think about it. Utah plays a year in the B12. The ACC adds them and San Diego State in 2025, when the look in with ESPN happens. ESPN gives all ACC schools a nice bump in revenue, making it clearly a better move for Utah than the B12. They get more money and a chance to feature their programs on a conference TV network, Utah is only bound to the ACC until 2036 and might get out earlier in the unlikely event FSU and Clemson find a way to get out of the GOR (or pay their way out). The move answers the complaints FSU and Clemson have made about the ACC doing nothing to protect their brands or enhancing the conference. Bumps their revenue and adding the best football program in the B12 improves ACC football markedly. Hurts their position in their lawsuits against the ACC. The ACC finally gets a sixth lacrosse program. And ESPN delivers a major blow to the Fox controlled B12 conference. They protect their investment in the ACC and set the stage for more raids from the B12 circa 2030-31. [/QUOTE]

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