some guy on orangebloods that people seem to believe is saying that there is an option for texas to go acc in everything but fball and go independant in fball and have eight home games and four road games and four games every year against the acc and that they will be able to televise a ton of the games on lhn and that espn will pay them even more for lhn. like a billion dollars or something. they're pretty excited about this.
i'm sure indy football has been the plan all along. how would they not capitalize on lhn to the fullest? ou may just be causing it to happen sooner - perhaps because ou is aware of their plan and doesn't want to sit around and wait for it to happen.
The more I think about it, UT going indy just feels right. They are bigger than ND. They are bigger than the Big12. They are bigger than any conference, that's why no one will take them as is. The math actually adds up. A 20 year deal worth $1B is $50MM per year. That sounds about right to put 2-3 games a year on LHN and 6-7 on ABC, plus a CCG most years, plus basketball, plus LHN. Just makes sense.
$50MM sounds like a lot of money, but you have to remember that UT is probably going to have to spend close to $10MM a year to get 8 teams to come play at Austin if they go indy. They don't have to pay for those 4 conference games now and the ACC will only be able to backfill 2 games. They won't be able to home-and-home it for every game like with what happens now for big OCC games if they only have 4 roadies a year and the ACC taking up 2. I've heard ND spends about 1/2 their NBC money, or $7.5MM to pay 2 or 3 teams to come to SB every year (the rest involve convoluted payments because of home-and-home agreements airing on different networks, but ND budgets the net to be about $7.5MM out).
