(11-05-2015 06:14 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(11-02-2015 04:37 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Sadly none of it will happen that way for those reasons. The moves when they happen will be from the networks perspective, not that of what is needed for conferences, and it will be economical in every sense of the word. The fewest possible teams taken that make the biggest economic impact. So we go back to OU, Texas, & Notre Dame. The only impact upon those three will be if they demand anyone else. If not put Kansas in the mix. If so put Oklahoma State, or a second Texas school in the mix.

ESPN might have to settle for using Texas as leverage for another conference and settling on Kansas and OU and Notre Dame might be their play.

Has anyone considered that Oklahoma to the SEC is viable should ESPN use Texas as leverage for the Big 10 or PAC.

Texas and 3 friends not named OU to the PAC in exchange for a % of rights to the PACN.

Texas and Kansas to the Big 10 in exchange for a long term T1 deal.

The much ballyhooed Texas as an independent to the ACC utilizing the LHN for the ACCN.

Oklahoma to the SEC simply multiplies content value. Kansas would be a perk, or perhaps Virginia Tech becomes the second school.

Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC with Kansas and Virginia Tech to the Big 10. Notre Dame, Cincinnati, and Connecticut/West Virginia to the ACC.

Anyway you look at it the moves will involve the brands that ESPN wants to control with niche markets in which they can find profit. And that is the simplicity that will govern the final moves whichever scenario they choose, and there certainly be combinations I haven't listed.

It takes two to tango. The schools themselves will also have to have the motivation or desire to switch conferences or seriously look around.

Money, and the need to be perceived to be with peers will be the motivation for the schools if it is the Big 12 schools that move. Money, money, money, will be the motivation for the ACC if it is their schools that move.