(09-07-2014 05:27 PM)XLance Wrote:  What is ESPN's goal?
How do you control the entirety of college football without complete control of the B1G and all of those mid-western TV sets?
1) you take care of your premier football product (TV, money, what ever it takes)

How does ESPN capture the eastern US without a legitimate conference in the area?
2) you merge enough eastern teams into a mid-atlantic conference where most of the schools can look either north or south with equal ease. This allows ESPN to secure access to the entire eastern part of the country to go along with complete dominance of the southeast.

The last piece of ESPN's puzzle is to gain access and control the west coast
3) you move your prized individually owned holding (texas) into the west for a share of the west coast action. This is what is being worked out now. Texas and what? will be acceptable to the PAC for a share. This is so big and have such long term ramifications it might stretch all the way to the end of the GOR's. AT the same time what schools will ESPN try to keep away from the B1G. Will they attempt to add Kansas or Oklahoma to the Texas package? Iowa State? That would leave the B1G with nowhere to go and hemmed in. Carolina and Virginia? Neither school wants to play in the SEC OR the B1G. Win-win plan for everyone.

End game......ESPN has one.

Just because you ACC clowns hate the Big Ten, that doesn't mean ESPN does. Too funny. You think being their "slaves" means they have all that much more respect or love for your conference?

What a joke.

This whole post doesn't even make sense. ESPN's goal is to hem in The Big Ten? Why? To make ACC fans like you happy? How very simple...in terms of thinking.