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Originally Posted by I. J. Reilly
As far as generating more revenue with these new teams, it’s a bit of a chicken and the egg conundrum. It will be impossible for the Pac to pull those schools in without a lucrative TV contract, or their own network, and it will be impossible to negotiate those without having a proven commodity to bargain with. So the most likely scenario is that each school coming into the new Pac will have to take a leap of faith, signing up without really knowing how much revenue they will be gaining. It still makes sense for Utah to jump at it, and probably for Colorado too with the uneven TV distribution of the current Big-12, but not many other schools will be happy with that.
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Just so you're aware, most of the BCS conferences are planning to follow the Big Ten model when their current TV contract runs out. The Big 12 is already talking about setting up their own network. SEC is looking to do one as well. I've heard that the Pac-10 is waiting for expansion before diving into that, but that may come sooner rather than later at this point.