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Since 2014, college football has become nothing more than programming content. The bowl games (a number of them are owned outright by ESPN), the CFP (a made for tv event), Game Day (number one sports show) are all about viewership.

The GOR explicitly lists out what rights each school is granting to the Conference. They include: All rights under the US and/or foreign copyright laws All reproduction, performance, display, distribution, and other intellectual property rights The right to modify distort or alter the Works and...

More or less. But schools have evolved significantly since this was introduced. Time to update... especially D1.

Doubtful. While there are perhaps, a few thousand donors to A-T, only about 10 (yes, t-e-n) really move the needle. Even TStan, when asked, said he had no plans to increase "fund-raising" because he could simply call 10 or so donors and get what he needed. I did a study on it a few years ago and...

Athletes get a different, better product. I have a warm up and love it. Not available at retail.

Why is that important to you? It is a fact that the GOR conveys individual rights to a collective. That the ESPN -ACC agreements predate it doesn't change that.

I looked it up. It appears that Adidas themselves did not do this, but rather ... fans could create their own customized jerseys and some did using the "4" runes. Adidas submitted them to the soccer governing body and no one objected until ... it hit social media. They have since blocked the use...

Not quite. The “producers” conveyed their rights to another who would negotiate on their collective behalf. The ESPN Agreement is between the conference and ESPN. A member school can leave, but their conveyed rights remain through the term.

They were not concurrent at the time they were signed. The ESPN agreements are dated July 8, 2010, May 9, 2012, and June 24, 2014. The term of the GOR is through June 30, 2027, but that is modified per the amendment to June 30, 2036. The GOR specifically states that the member schools have to...

The GOR states (Paragraph 1) that each of the Schools “irrevocably and exclusively grants to the Conference...all rights...necessary for the Conference to perform the contractual obligations of the Conference expressly set forth in the ESPN Agreement...” By signing, member schools have to...

The GOR establishes that ESPN has sole right to produce and distribute the broadcasts of the games. And ... that the schools have conveyed their rights to the Conference to negotiate their rights on their behalf. That's because the Conference sold their rights to ESPN before the GOR. I am...

True. But that's a $400 million difference over ten years.

Not much of a premise. There is no way Boston College, Wake, Syracuse etc will exit the ACC - there is simply no place to go. Even Miami has said they want to stay in the ACC.

As long as the ACC exists in any form, GT can only go to a conference whose "works" are distributed and broadcast by ESPN. That pretty much means ... the SEC.

It’s estimated that ESPN nets $100 million off the ACC. There’s no reason to just give that up for nothing. Second, the ACCN isn’t just going to disappear. Do you think they (ESPN) want to watch it sign up with NBC, CBS (who just lost the SEC), or AppleTV or some combination of the above...

I enjoy how this YouTuber is citing another YouTuber as his reference. Neither of which knows what the other is talking about.

Maybe. I don't know enough about Birmingham-Southern's internal finances but this is what was reported: "Publicly available financial documents show that the college has operated at a deficit for eight of the last 10 fiscal years. At the same time, Birmingham-Southern’s enrollment has slipped...

I remember when the Birmingham Race Track was being justified. The original impact report wasn't that great. So, they redid it and magically, it was a slam dunk. It didn't make it.

Hard to say. The enrollment wasn’t that large. A similar college closed some time ago and the core campus repurposed into a prep school. I don’t even recall a blip at its closing. Other universities will easily absorb the students and the campus property, which sits west of Birmingham in a...

I'm sorry to hear this. As a kid, I was a batboy when the baseball team came to town. It doesn't surprise me though. For one, it is estimated that 25% of all 4-year colleges will close in the coming few years. There are simply too many for the demand. State schools will do fine, of course .. as...