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Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples recently went on ESPN Radio's Russillo & Kanell Show to discuss Big 12 non-expansion. Here are some highlights.
On if the entire point of the Big 12 expansion talks was simply an elaborate way to get more money from ESPN and Fox, the Big 12's television partners, as an insentive not to expand and cost the networks even more money:
"It may have been a shakedown because if you look at the timing of when they announced they were going to explore expansion, that meeting was held the day after all the stuff came out about the ACC Network with ESPN and the ACC extending its grant of rights to 2036 and the possibility of more money for the ACC.