And, if I understand this correctly, by negotiating the early release of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC (which benefits ESPN) then ESPN would return the favor by allowing the "new" Big 12 to keep the same pay rate and actually give a pay bump up..... maybe to $45 million per school per year. (If Texas and Oklahoma stay through 2025 I've heard the Big 12 might get as much as $50 million per school per year but I doubt this will ever happen because they'll be gone to the SEC before then.) This $45 million per school per year figure does not include any money from a streaming service like Amazon for example. The ACC only got $37 or $38 million in the most recent payday,... right??? I haven't heard how much the ACC will get in the near future. Anybody have a dollar estimate because I haven't seen one. Thanks! P.S. I've always felt when a school moves to a new conference they need to earn at least $10 million more per year from the new conference they're moving to so they can quickly recoup the exit fees they had to pay to the conference they're leaving behind and, on top of that, quickly recoup the entry fees they must pay to the new conference they're joining so that's why I don't see the conference moves some of you are hoping for. For example, will the ACC be able to pay WVU or Cincy $10 million more per year than what they will get by simply remaining in the Big 12? Can the Big 12 pay PAC 12 schools $10 million more per year than what they can get by simply remaining in the PAC 12? Because these exit and entry fees are so darn high I've had people I trust tell me the actual income increase needs to be at least $15 million so my $10 million requirement is actually quite conservative! That's why I suspect the only way the Big 12 can get those 4 corner schools to switch conferences is to have the B1G take Oregon and Washington first so those 4 corner schools have absolutely no choice but to make the leap to the Big 12. Additionally, why would WVU & Cincy want to join the ACC when it's almost unanimously agreed on this board that the ACC is inevitably going to be successfully raided by the B1G and SEC at some point in the future? ** Edited by LoveSports at 9/24/2022, 5:03:33 AM