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  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    It would be interesting to see how they would define viewership. If UGA plays Vandy and it gets 5 million viewers, then Vandy gets a...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    ESPN is on the hook for the ACC deal until 2027 whether they decline the option or not. Declining makes no sense if the ACC doesn't...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    Your response was "who in the hell was voluntarily making long term decisions". This wasn't a voluntary decision. It was a contractually...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    ESPN contractually had to make a decision in 2021 about whether to extend the ACC media rights deal to 2036. They obviously didn't do so...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    Declining the option doesn't make any sense if the ACC will just keep pushing back the option date while getting nothing in return.
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    If the deal were pretty lucrative then ESPN would have exercised their option in 2021 when they were supposed to. We let them extend it...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    I think you are downplaying ESPN's likely involvement in the whole process. There is a reason that the Big 12 commissioner sent a cease...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    I am a fan of whatever is in the best interest of GT. Right now I don't believe that being in the ACC for the next 12 years while...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    So in your opinion ESPN and FOX have not been involved in conference realignment outside of being a well meaning media partner watching...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    It was ESPN that moved Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC which not only neutered the Big 12 but set off the dominos of the B1G expanding and...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    It's a completely different product in the SEC. FSU played three 5+ million viewer games this year in the regular season. Two of those...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    They likely haven't, but they are fairly respected college football media members and I do trust their sources more than random people...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    The notion that the ESPN option only applies to the ACC network has only been mentioned here, has no evidence at all to back it up, and...
  • WreckinGT replied to the thread Conference Realignment.
    Do you believe that if ESPN declines the 2027 option, and the ACC sells the rights to Apple for 5 million a year per team that there...
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