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Message: [QUOTE="TDTOrange, post: 23782, member: 509"] This is the way it used to be up until sometime in the 1980's. The NCAA controlled all TV rights under the old CFA. Then Georgia and Oklahoma (I think, there may have been others) sued to allow schools to negotiate their own rights (or have the conferences do this on their behalf). This is what led to the initial round of conference shakeups, death of the SWC, Penn St. to the B1G, FSU to ACC, formation of the Big East football, etc. The genie is out of the bottle, it ain't going back in. Things are better for the big boy programs this way, all the games are on TV instead of a select few. Conference shakeup is nothing new and probably won't ever stop, the only constant is change. [/QUOTE]