What if

athiii® · 2024-07-11T17:09:54.750Z

Clemson and FSU punch a hole in the GOR and get 6 more teams from the ACC and form their own league. I’ll bet they will get a major network to fund them. That is a crazy idea, but what do you think about that. I’m really not interested in the Bigs or the SEC but I could really get behind this.

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Re: What if

Jul 11, 2024, 1:49 PM

Currently ESPN pays approximately $450,000,000 to $500,000,00 a year to the ACC for it's media deal. ESPN makes a profit on both the broadcasting of ACC sports and the ACC Network and based on reports it ends up costing ESPN about $15,000,000 per team of broadcasting expenses. So they're paying somewhere around 45-50mil per team per year to broadcast the ACC sporting events and carry the ACC network. Reports indicate that ESPN makes a profit on both the ACC media deal and ACC network I just don't know how much profit that is. We have to assume it is a good chunk since the deal ESPN has with he ACC is a sweetheart deal from the heavens well under current market value.

Obviously ESPN pulls the strings so of course they're not going to let anything happen that is not to their advantage. So for what you're saying to work it would have to be only the schools with football prowess (Clemson, FSU, Miami, maybe VT?, Maybe NC State?) and would likely have to include the basketball powers (UNC, Duke, UVA?, Cuse, Louisville?) At that point they'd be better off keeping their sweetheart deal.

Let's face it, the ACC is so bad in football beyond Clemson and FSU that what makes the media agreement profitable for ESPN is the basketball so there isn't any combination of ACC teams breaking away that would entice ESPN to give up the deal they currently have.

There's only 4 things that will force ESPN's hand when it comes to Clemson, FSU and possibly UNC.

1. A huge bombshell of an order in the court room that is destined to lead to settlement
2. A settlement under the radar
3. A win in the courts by Clemson or FSU
4. Reports that indicate Fox is looking to finance Clemson and/or FSUs way out of the GOR

Other than these 4 things ESPN wants Clemson and FSU locked into the ACC until 2036 because they're making money off of them at a #### of a bargain.

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