And then ESPN will advise and subsidize its busines partners, the Big12 and ACC, to take on Louisville and Rutgers just to violation all over the NBC deal.
Sorry guys, it seems we are checkmated by ESPN and disloyal members within the BE ranks.
To pull this out, the BE needs to hire the #2 guy from the Pac12. The new commish needs to publically threaten to sue ESPN if the the BE is raided again at or around the time we were supposed to be negotiating with ESPN in good faith. Whether they screwed the BE or not, ESPN needs to know it'll be dragged through the mud if anything happens between now and November.
Since a weakened Big12 is in the interests of both the BE and Pac12, the new commish needs to privately work with his Pac12 contacts on a plan to contain Big12 aggression.