re: How to Destroy the ACC

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The SEC needs to be proactive to get the most choice ACC teams or else the Big 10 will. If the Big 10 gets an exclusive foothold in Virginia and North Carolina it's Appomattox Part 2.

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You misunderstand. I don't think the SEC really wants or needs any additional teams.

You seem to think that if the big 10 goes to 20 teams, the SEC has to follow suit. I don't. I think that would reduce the amount of money each SEC team could make and I think that's what drives their decision making.

Expansion when A&M and Mizzou came in was about markets. The last round was about blue bloods.

There aren't any blue bloods outside of the SEC/Big 10 aside from Notre Dame. Markets aren't driving TV deals now. There has to be a financial reason for the SEC to add anyone. Nobody has voiced any numbers showing why there is a reason right now.

There IS a reason for the Big 10, because they broadcast their games through the big 10 network that their conference owns. They get more games to broadcast by adding teams.

The SEC doesn't own their own network. ESPN broadcasts their games, and since they already own ACC games. They pay less per game for ACC games than they do for SEC games. They aren't going to pay more for that product if they don't have to. Adding those teams won't mean more money for the SEC as they're set up now.

While the SEC may want to mimic the Big 10 and own their own network, if they do that can't happen until 2034. The SEC doesn't want to hasten the ACC demise... they want to delay it, even if they want to expand and create a self owned SEC network.