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Saw an ESPN article about the Big East saying the results meant the selections were a mistake. Haven’t seen one for the ACC? Where’s the ACC’s PR team? The league to be running its mouths on this so that the discussion isn’t “it wasn’t bad PR, it was the metrics” but becomes “wow, these...

If it’s so hard being in a power conference maybe some of the teams should move down a league or three to take advantage of how unfair it is. I’ll be waiting over here…

It's a non-profit incentive problem more than a gov't one, though gov't is the largest nonprofit. Zero incentive to *reduce* revenue or costs unless something really goes wrong, since it doesn't turn into more profit for you or your stakeholders. But lots of (ego, PR, etc) incentives to make...

I have a cynical streak that makes me suspect it's more intentional and "good judgement" in a greed-is-good-pure-selfish way: collect as much money as they can before someone else forces the system to change. At the end of the day, so many people are collecting paychecks for jobs that don't need...

Linear vs streaming is an incomplete picture which masks some of the problems facing everybody selling TV (not just sports). You also have TikTok, Snap, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, etc. None of those were around ~20 years ago either. But they all make people less likely to pay $100+,$200+ a...

Hardly. Which part of "I've been growing more suspicious as we go longer and longer without the ACC refuting the claim." is taking it as gospel? RonJohn expressed annoyance that people were taking the option for granted, I was saying it's reasonable to see its existence as a non-zero probability...

Some of these are refutable from independent evidence and/or interpretation of terms like "fiduciary duty." Is it not exceedingly obvious that I'm talking specifically the termination option claims? Why are you asking me to defend FSU's case as a whole? And why is that? Is it because the ACC...

There would be a big obvious difference between “disclosing proprietary information without warning in an adversarial lawsuit” and “disclosing proprietary information after checking in with the other party as part of damage control.” My contention is that the ACC appears too incompetent to...

Yeah, we don't know, but the ACC should not be ignoring public sentiment. Ignoring public sentiment and being a disaster at PR is how the ACC got into this mess in the first place with public sentiment being so bad that one of its member schools convinced itself to sue the league. ESPN doesn't...

I've been growing more suspicious as we go longer and longer without the ACC refuting the claim. The ACC is generally losing the PR battles around this, if they have an easy win like that to refute a falsehood, why not take it? Becuase the ESPN agreement is under NDA or somesuch? Why would it...

I don’t see the lack of transfer restrictions as an issue for FTE classification, at-will is already a common rule for FTE already. The Hollywood and pro sports union systems still seem very relevant regardless. Independent contract actor = still a union member. Sign up for one or more movies =...

People won’t be tuning in to hear about fiscal savvy. Like how ESPN believed they were tuning in to UGA@GT for UGA more than GT despite it being part of the ACC media rights. I think they’d talk about how amazing it is for them to get to cover Michigan/FSU, Ohio State/FSU, etc more frequently…...

Maybe if FSU is truly raising half a billion or whatever they should just leave once those wires land. The negotiations would probably start pretty quickly if it started to look like "ESPN is going to broadcast these Big10@FSU games with the 'ACC rights' for the next 12 years and the announcers...

I literally said "Claiming lack of consideration would get a lot easier if ESPN opts out, as rumored is possible." I would expect to see a lot of challenges to the GOR if ESPN bails because there is a LOT of smoke in support of the "the schools signed this in order to get a specific ESPN media...

Rights are transferred all the time for non-tangible media "property". Taylor Swift's re-recording of all her old albums is a pretty solid contemporary example of how hard it can be to win a "I think the conditions you're putting on selling me back my rights are too onerous" dispute. She had to...

Nothing in that link explains why they would be guaranteed to get favorable ROI and/or terms on anything they sell to raise money for *this*. Lotta "borrowing money is something we do all the time, it never goes wrong!" Yada yada yada. Yes, they will believe all day long that the ROI is gonna be...

Whether or not they succeed in doing that by 2025, 2026, …, 2030, … is under a lot of debate in this thread, very few are taking a “it will never happen even by 2036” position. Assuming they get themselves some PE money to get out in the next couple of years, though, I’m looking forward to the...

I find it hard to believe the feds would start a criminal case when the contract that assigns the rights is the one in dispute versus leaving it to civil court to sort out penalties. But you are absolutely right that that hypothetical doesn’t get off the ground because no party other than FSU...

I think in a civil contract dispute like this, FSU *can* do a lot of things here, even those that the contract says they can't, and the most pertinent question is "what would a court enforce in a suit about breach of contract?" For instance, I don't think the ACC can actually refuse to take...

At the end of the day the guy saying “you can’t rely on single game plus minus like you’re quoting” really isn’t the one who should be getting all this “did you even play the game, stats are worthless” pile-on… Not every stat is created equal and they can’t all be used in every situation. But...