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The ESPN contract is under NDA, but the GOR (at least the ones in circulation without all signatures) isn't. The GOR states that it is necessary for the ESPN contract, but not the other way around. The GOR does reference the ESPN contract, so perhaps if ESPN walked away in 2026, the GOR could...

Not necessarily. I don't think the GOR is contingent upon the ESPN contract being in place. It runs until 2036 unless the ACC decides otherwise.

Valid point. But should it come to pass that a negotiated exit for FSU is completed before ESPN renews its contract with the ACC, I'm pretty sure that ESPN will use diminished value as a negotiating element regardless of whether or not the ACC used it.

There's also the element of "diminished value" - like the insurance term for what happens to a car after it has been repaired following an accident. The ACC could (and should) argue that aside from being owed the annual media income for a school, the current value of the ACC's ESPN contract is...

Yeah, it looks like the roster page has been updated; all the placeholder spots are gone. Lots of new names.

I assume you are referring to the exit fee here, and the risk of it being tied up in court. The GOR doesn't involve payments from FSU to the ACC, unless the ACC decides to sell back the rights. So, why would FSU leave the conference without their media rights?

While our attendance has been in slow decline since 2015, it never really recovered from the 2020 Covid attendance hit. 2021 was down 15% from 2019, and we lost another 9% in 2022. However, it’s difficult to separate the impact of the “change in habit patterns” after Covid from the effect of...

Interesting take. Perhaps the move is strategic - take a pay cut to get a job in the SEC and be well-positioned when the next wave of consolidation happens. Seems risky, though. This is not Bama hiring another HC to be a coordinator. It's a third-tier coaching position.

Just to pile on here, they present 9-figure amounts down to the dollar. That provides a false impression of accuracy, despite them using multi-layered assumptions to arrive at their numbers. I got sucked in a little bit until I read their assumptions. Their data may have at best a vague...

In a further attempt to relate this tangent to the thread topic, from what I found via googling, if the GTAA solicited donations for the Edge replacement, funds donated for that purpose cannot be redirected to replace the BDS field turf without permission of the donor. You can, and many donors...

While you are correct, that doesn't address my concern that @stinger78's statement is incorrect.

I do not believe this is correct. According to your statement, if I give to the AA and designate my gift for scholarships, I cannot take a tax deduction. Can you link to the appropriate IRS or equivalent documentation that supports your statement?

This just got authorized by the BoR.

Are you certain of this? I was about to mention same.

Thanks for sharing this. No real surprises in the data - SEC is well above other conferences in NIL support, and we lag well behind most peers in the ACC. With a caveat that the private schools didn't share their data, perhaps we are ahead of Wake.

Glad to see Eric helping our track team.

Not disputing your overall point as it relates to our lack of headroom for salaries, but I am having trouble reconciling the Knight database info here: https://knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/acc/georgia-institute-of-technology#!quicktabs-tab-where_the_money-1 with figures from the GT Financial...

I have an attic antenna but never got around to running coax from it to a TV. So I purchased a Tablo device based on your post. I expected that it was basically a WiFi bridge from the antenna to a TV. All I can say is "Wow". This thing is dope! I set it up with a small indoor UHF antenna on...

Seconding @TechPhi97's post was this post in that thread:

First, thanks for doing the math for me as I had been thinking of a similar analysis. I use the Knight DB as a reference as well. I don't see the absolute amount of debt as being as important as the annual debt service payments when discussing it in the context of the AA's total annual income...