Concerning the ACC contract with ESPN

Concerning the ACC contract with ESPN – just a thought. Get Clemson, FSC, UNC, and (one other) to agree to leave. ESPN can help get these teams to the SEC by:

1) Increasing the contract payout with the SEC by adding these teams

2) Lowering (offsetting by the amount needed to increase the SEC payout) its contract payout with the ACC since the remaining schools will only be filler games. Let thew ACC choke on its desire to be “equal” among each other while at the same time strangling those who put them on a perch to begin with.

3) Adding more to the contract payout to help those who leave the ACC pay whatever might still be owed when they leave. Couple of years and it is done. Especially when big money folk chip in to help pay it off just to help “spear” the ACC into bottom dwellers palace they belong in.

4) Get FOX and the B1G looking to make this same play.

5) Use whichever play is agreed upon and negotiate higher ACC payout (by reducing the offset restructure) to compensate those remaining schools [for] releasing Clemson, FSU, UNC, and one other from the GOR.

6) Smile. Whatever will be will be.

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Some of y'all are delusional...

Feb 27, 2023, 6:29 PM

Penn State is NEVER leaving the B1G for the ACC.

ESPN has already upped their payout to the weakened Big-12 for more inventory to replace what they lost with the B1G.

With the new playoff contract to be negotiated, ESPN clearly wants to have as much as possible available for bidding for as much of the playoff as possible.

Nobody at ESPN is sitting in their office saying "we're getting Clemson games for $60 million (or whatever our payout is) per year. So why don't we move them to the SEC and pay them $90 million?" Anyone sitting around saying that would be fired.

ESPN already has Clemson and Florida State. They aren't going to pay us more when they already have us locked down. They aren't going to weaken the ACC when they have it under contract until 2035.

We don't even know if the SEC wants us! Or Florida State.

Finally, because of the kerfuffle over the playoff, which ESPN wanted to get for below market as a gift from Greg Sankey, the House of Mouse is already saying that they might not pay more to the SEC with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. (I think they ultimately will, if they can increase the number of games broadcast - but that is the only reason, and it won't increase the average payout per team in the conference.

The SEC is making big money but less than the B1G under their new contract. The SEC has also (despite the big dollar deals) made the same mistake as the ACC - they locked themselves up to one media partner in too long of a deal. The B1G has the biggest contract AND it comes up for renewal before the SEC's AND with multiple partners they have multiple folks bidding for their product.

We just need to suck it up. Clemson and FSU should push for uneven revenue distribution in the conference. The ACC has already done the right thing by (along with the B1G and Pac-12) holding up the playoff media rights for expansion so that the most possible money will be distributed via the playoff. That won't close the gap to the SEC and B1G, but it will close the relative gap, since we'll all collect, which is the best that we can do right now.

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ESPN should take the money they

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Problem is ESPN is gonna want to hang on to that extra $

#### no on Pac 12 merger

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Maryland owed 50k to leave. The ACC withheld their

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Somebody is going to pay me the bling money

Some of y'all are delusional...

So, how are we going to close the gap, when with the 12 team

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To your point

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