IMHO,
- It is important to understand that for the entire time, ND could have made more money from a conference TV deal than it makes from NBC. Its purpose with NBC was not to make the most money, it was to insure its games were on, nationwide, every week. With EVERYBODY’S games on, nationwide, every week and the line between OTA and cable about gone times may change.
- I think we end up with the ACC surviving due to the “grant of rights”.
- IF the Big 10 goes yet bigger, the SEC would want to match. With the ACC (Clemson, maybe VPI, maybe the two Florida schools) locked up for more than a decade, there really is nobody out there of SEC quality to take.