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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 1007270" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>After doing some more research, as I've said I have no clue who this person is, he could 100% be making this stuff up...but his details are intriguing because a lot of the details are similar to what this board has discussed. However, in the frame of hypotheticals, I'll be more than happy to entertain it...because it's all entertainment in the end.</p><p></p><p>He's clearly saying the ACC will accept a lower value deal due to losing FSU and Clemson, offset with keeping the home rights to FSU and Clemson, so basically the ACC schools will take an overall step back payout terms to keep the ESPN deal alive. The alternative is ACC schools refuse and the deal ends in 2027 and the less attractive schools will have to fend for themselves ala PAC 12 schools:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=twitter]1778332446204858503[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>It's always a game of shuffling money. If you don't think so, then you haven't been paying attention. PAC 12 refused to play that game with ESPN and take lower value after USC/UCLA/Washington/Oregon bolted for the B1G and ESPN effectively killed that conference. I know [USER=4905]@CEB[/USER] doesn't see it that way, but if you look through the prism that ESPN was willing to "shuffle" money towards the Big 12 and pay the remaining PAC 12 schools (minus Oregon State and Washington State) MORE net money per year to move, then that pretty much refutes your point of "shuffling money doesn't make any sense". From your past and recent posts, you are an Engineer with a business background. Business is mostly about shuffling resources to maximize net output, while getting rid of extraneous costs. It doesn't take a genius to understand that certain schools (see: Wake Forest, Boston College, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, possibly Duke and GT due to ESPN having schools in the same territory, etc) are extraneous costs to ESPN, and recent history has shown ESPN (and other networks) are shuffling operations to consolidate resources and cut expenses.</p><p></p><p>ESPN/FSU/Clemson doesn't need the ACC to vote on changing the GOR if the theory that GOR dies with the ESPN media deal is true...which seems to be how the ACC GOR document and amendment reads. Well, if the GOR dies when ESPN opts out in 2027, then the ACC schools have even less leverage. ACC schools either plays ball or take their chances in the wild. Outside of FSU/Clemson/UNC/Miami/maybe GT due to the most lucrative market left in the expansion map, which other ACC schools will be desirable in the open market? The Big 12 might take a few schools leftover, but they will be in a position to be picky. </p><p></p><p>If you subscribe to the notion that matchups and fanbases will rule the new college football world, then it makes a lot of sense that ESPN/FSU/Clemson/SEC will want to this to happen. You're talking about a league already known for prime time matchups adding two marquee schools that will enhance the matchup matrix even more. FSU and Clemson are already two of the most watched schools, now add that to the potential matchups in the SEC? It doesn't take a genius to figure out why ESPN would loot a profitable ACC to make their golden child SEC even more attractive (with the added bonus of not having to pay "extraneous" schools).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 1007270, member: 360"] After doing some more research, as I've said I have no clue who this person is, he could 100% be making this stuff up...but his details are intriguing because a lot of the details are similar to what this board has discussed. However, in the frame of hypotheticals, I'll be more than happy to entertain it...because it's all entertainment in the end. He's clearly saying the ACC will accept a lower value deal due to losing FSU and Clemson, offset with keeping the home rights to FSU and Clemson, so basically the ACC schools will take an overall step back payout terms to keep the ESPN deal alive. The alternative is ACC schools refuse and the deal ends in 2027 and the less attractive schools will have to fend for themselves ala PAC 12 schools: [MEDIA=twitter]1778332446204858503[/MEDIA] It's always a game of shuffling money. If you don't think so, then you haven't been paying attention. PAC 12 refused to play that game with ESPN and take lower value after USC/UCLA/Washington/Oregon bolted for the B1G and ESPN effectively killed that conference. I know [USER=4905]@CEB[/USER] doesn't see it that way, but if you look through the prism that ESPN was willing to "shuffle" money towards the Big 12 and pay the remaining PAC 12 schools (minus Oregon State and Washington State) MORE net money per year to move, then that pretty much refutes your point of "shuffling money doesn't make any sense". From your past and recent posts, you are an Engineer with a business background. Business is mostly about shuffling resources to maximize net output, while getting rid of extraneous costs. It doesn't take a genius to understand that certain schools (see: Wake Forest, Boston College, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, possibly Duke and GT due to ESPN having schools in the same territory, etc) are extraneous costs to ESPN, and recent history has shown ESPN (and other networks) are shuffling operations to consolidate resources and cut expenses. ESPN/FSU/Clemson doesn't need the ACC to vote on changing the GOR if the theory that GOR dies with the ESPN media deal is true...which seems to be how the ACC GOR document and amendment reads. Well, if the GOR dies when ESPN opts out in 2027, then the ACC schools have even less leverage. ACC schools either plays ball or take their chances in the wild. Outside of FSU/Clemson/UNC/Miami/maybe GT due to the most lucrative market left in the expansion map, which other ACC schools will be desirable in the open market? The Big 12 might take a few schools leftover, but they will be in a position to be picky. If you subscribe to the notion that matchups and fanbases will rule the new college football world, then it makes a lot of sense that ESPN/FSU/Clemson/SEC will want to this to happen. You're talking about a league already known for prime time matchups adding two marquee schools that will enhance the matchup matrix even more. FSU and Clemson are already two of the most watched schools, now add that to the potential matchups in the SEC? It doesn't take a genius to figure out why ESPN would loot a profitable ACC to make their golden child SEC even more attractive (with the added bonus of not having to pay "extraneous" schools). [/QUOTE]
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