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<blockquote data-quote="Orlaco" data-source="post: 129317751" data-attributes="member: 1101564">(....a copy from a post I made in another thread that I believe deserves it's own discussion...<a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/myth-of-the-big-12s-grant-of-rights-010313">plus I added a link</a> that better explains my opinion....)For the people hanging their hats on the GOR,It's just another contract (bylaw really) clause. Sure, it makes leaving a conference a bit more tricky (expensive)....more so for the more popular schools (in the case of the Big 12 that would be Texas).A school can simply break the contract.....it's not like they still couldn't grant the rights to another conference and refuse to share them with The Big 12. A school that does this would just have to pay damages and there is only damages if the Big 12 makes less TV money.With all the schools that recently left the Big 12 it's making more money THAN EVER. Good luck convincing a court WVU leaving the Big 12 and adding another school (and they would add AT LEAST one to get back to ten) while still making the same money (again....networks didn't penalize the Big 12 when teams left) was actually 'damage'.At least in the case of the Big 12 the 'buyout' bylaw is still the biggest obstacle for a team that wants to leave....basically they state a team must pay the equivalent of two years of income (from conference contracts). That 'base' would be pushing 50 million before factoring in other income....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orlaco, post: 129317751, member: 1101564"] (....a copy from a post I made in another thread that I believe deserves it's own discussion...[URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/myth-of-the-big-12s-grant-of-rights-010313'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]plus I added a link[/B][/COLOR][/URL] that better explains my opinion....) For the people hanging their hats on the GOR, It's just another contract (bylaw really) clause. Sure, it makes leaving a conference a bit more tricky (expensive)....more so for the more popular schools (in the case of the Big 12 that would be Texas). A school can simply break the contract.....it's not like they still couldn't grant the rights to another conference and refuse to share them with The Big 12. A school that does this would just have to pay damages and there is only damages if the Big 12 makes less TV money. With all the schools that recently left the Big 12 it's making more money THAN EVER. Good luck convincing a court WVU leaving the Big 12 and adding another school (and they would add AT LEAST one to get back to ten) while still making the same money (again....networks didn't penalize the Big 12 when teams left) was actually 'damage'. At least in the case of the Big 12 the 'buyout' bylaw is still the biggest obstacle for a team that wants to leave....basically they state a team must pay the equivalent of two years of income (from conference contracts). That 'base' would be pushing 50 million before factoring in other income.... [/QUOTE]

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