[82lsju]

Nothing is stopping any school from leaving the conference other than the exit fee and loss of broadcast rights through 2036. Someone had the FSU exit fee pegged at half a billion dollars. Somebody on one of the Cal sites totally gets the GOR from a legal standpoint and that analysis is making the rounds. That person says it is pretty lock tight, but lawyers do get $500 per hour to pick locks.

This seems to be the we'll be as big a pain in the ass conference partners as you can imagine so you'll do anything to stop dealing with us strategy.

In my dream world, all conference members leave but Tech and Stanford, each collecting billions to be split among current and former season ticket holders as some sort of Texas or Alaska energy dividend for all the past suffering.  Then I can watch college sports I no longer care about in the comfort of a second home somewhere.

one way this works out with two "super conferences", everyone else is in the "minor leagues", do the minor league teams end up as the development league for the "super conferences" where many of their good players "transfer up"???  Will this work??

[82lsju]

Nothing is stopping any school from leaving the conference other than the exit fee and loss of broadcast rights through 2036. Someone had the FSU exit fee pegged at half a billion dollars. Somebody on one of the Cal sites totally gets the GOR from a legal standpoint and that analysis is making the rounds. That person says it is pretty lock tight, but lawyers do get $500 per hour to pick locks.

This seems to be the we'll be as big a pain in the ass conference partners as you can imagine so you'll do anything to stop dealing with us strategy.

In my dream world, all conference members leave but Tech and Stanford, each collecting billions to be split among current and former season ticket holders as some sort of Texas or Alaska energy dividend for all the past suffering.  Then I can watch college sports I no longer care about in the comfort of a second home somewhere.

one way this works out with two "super conferences", everyone else is in the "minor leagues", do the minor league teams end up as the development league for the "super conferences" where many of their good players "transfer up"???  Will this work??