Once they get to the point of adding 2 teams - and it is obvious no other is valued as highly as BYU in this scenario right now because they are the only one they are currently willing to pay $6-8M to - it is relevant that dropping BYU's contract in favor of the B12 payout is going to effect their bottom line...
If it wasn't going to be relevant to the bottom line of ESPN if BYU is added then they should pay the additional B12 money as well as the current BYU contract...sounds like a dumb thing for them to do right? Why? Because $6-8M will be relevant to the bottom line...