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Message: [QUOTE="arbitragegls, post: 579908, member: 302"] ...appears to believe that the ACC as well as the Big 12 are stable...and in fact are pursuing a football schedule alliance. For those who were on the BBALL chat Saturday evening, you know that this was mentioned as a cursory remark...now it appears to be gaining legs. Dodds views the realignment thing as the ACC and Big 12 against the B1G, Pac 12 and SEC. He believes that an alliance will make each conference stronger. And note the statement about sharing additional TV dollars...(this has and is being discussed in the ACC and Notre Dame). In a war, keeping your enemies close is sometimes a good thing...and making new friends by delivering dollars while you do it is also good for both conferences. [B][SIZE=13px][COLOR=#333333][FONT=tahoma]Dodds weighs on Big 12’s pursuit of alliance with ACC[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=13px][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#333333]The college football landscape has shifted recently, especially in the Big 12, which lost Colorado to the Pac-12, Nebraska to the Big 10 and Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC over the last two years. But the Big 12 is now pursuing an alliance with the ACC that would facilitate both conferences to schedule games against each other every year and allow them to share TV revenue.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=13px][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#333333]Could this alliance serve to, not only benefit the Big 12 and ACC, but also to stabilize this college football landscape?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=13px][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#333333]'If you walk through it, the Pac-12 truthfully has no place to go to pick up teams, except the Big 12,” Dodds said. “The SEC and the Big 10 can pick up teams but it's only probably the ACC teams, maybe the Big East. So they're the conference that could be under attack. And the alliance between the Big 12 and the ACC, I think, strengthens them. I think that the Notre Dames of the world, it would unite them a little bit, toughen them a little bit. Then I think it would be less likely that anyone could pick one of their schools up.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=13px][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#333333][URL='http://www.dailytexanonline.com/blogs/keeping-score/2013/03/18/deloss-dodds-on-chance-texas-plays-texas-am-%E2%80%98we-get-to-decide-when-we']http://www.dailytexanonline.com/blogs/keeping-score/2013/03/18/deloss-dodds-on-chance-texas-plays-texas-am-‘we-get-to-decide-when-we[/URL][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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