This is the point, from someone who knows a lot about the subject: 2036 never comes with the college football landscape looking remotely like it does today.
From N&O story today:
“In the long term, (ISP Sports CEO Ben) Sutton envisioned a time, after the Big 12’s television rights deal expires in six years, when the ACC could target TCU and West Virginia. Do that, his message went, and it “ensures the ACC exists until such time as a ‘top down’ solution comes in college football (it surely will in the next 3-10 years) whereby the top 24-36 teams form their own alliance and everyone else scrambles to develop the next level.”
From N&O story today:
“In the long term, (ISP Sports CEO Ben) Sutton envisioned a time, after the Big 12’s television rights deal expires in six years, when the ACC could target TCU and West Virginia. Do that, his message went, and it “ensures the ACC exists until such time as a ‘top down’ solution comes in college football (it surely will in the next 3-10 years) whereby the top 24-36 teams form their own alliance and everyone else scrambles to develop the next level.”
