According to Andy Staples in The Athletic, he reviewed the GOR agreement for the ACC and noted that it will cost anyone who leaves $26M per year to get out of the agreement. In an Awful Announcing article from May, they went and estimated the payouts for each league from 2022 to 2029. It should be noted that both the SEC and the Big 10 were to expect a per school payout that would DOUBLE the ACC per school payout by 2029. You heard that right...DOUBLE. It should be noted that this article was published prior to the USC/UCLA move. I also noted that the SEC surpassed the Big 10 in revenues in that analysis which likely prompted the additions to their league. Now, it has been a while since I took 5-hour Calculus but doing some math in my head, if an SEC school, as the article states, is expected to make $105M per school by 2029 and my penalty for leaving the ACC GOR agreement is $26M per year, then by 2029, if Tech moved to the SEC, they would be almost $80M to the good per year on that transaction. If you gave me those numbers, my decision making gets pretty simplified. If I were sitting in Burruss Hall in a very big, President's office, or in a very big ADs office, I would be working the phones to cut a deal with my friends at Clemson, FSU, and someone in North Carolina to join the SEC. Period. Full Stop. With this move by the Big 10, the SEC will need to counter and protect a flank in the mid-Atlantic. Tech entering the league will give the SEC a brand new market and "home team" access to the Washington DMA which is in the top 10 in the country and is not on the list of those owned currently by the SEC. The Big 10 has Maryland, so they do not need to move into Virginia, but the SEC does for sure. To me, partner up, negotiate a good buyout deal, and make a boat load of cash to help the SEC fly into new markets and fortify their position as the best college football league. I think we really need to be proactive instead of reactive. When you play a lot of defense, you tend to lose and I prefer to be on offense in this conversation. ** Edited by CobbCountyHokie at 7/4/2022, 4:16:26 PM