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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 692905" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>I tried to do some research of ACC vs SEC from a different angle: The amount of revenue GT lost since just the 1990's till now by leaving the SEC all those years ago. I gave up eventually because I spent about an hour and could find clean data. I didn't want to spend much more time on it TBH.</p><p></p><p>However, something interesting happened recently. Colorado lost their coach Mel Tucker (ex UGA assistant) to Michigan State. Tucker was only at Colorado for a year when he left (and he also questioned the "loyalty" of kids to transfer or decommit....oops), but he was able to double his salary by going to MSU. Much has been made about how Big 10 schools are getting a massive amount of money from their media contracts, and how they are able to poach from other schools. The same can be said about the SEC, as Mississippi State just recently lured Mike Leach from Washington State. This article gives you a good look at the media contracts of different conferences:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/05/24/acc-revenue-reaches-465-million-but-distributions-lag-behind-other-power-conferences/" target="_blank">https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/05/24/acc-revenue-reaches-465-million-but-distributions-lag-behind-other-power-conferences/</a></p><p></p><p>Each school in the ACC received $29+ million, versus $43+ million for SEC schools. Going forward, if things do not change (it looks to increase), the difference of $14+/- million over the next 5 years is $70+/- MILLION! If you went backwards and did a conservative estimate of the last 20-25 years, that's easily $150-200+ million in media revenue GT has lost out on. How different does the complexion of GT athletics look with $150-200+ million sitting in our budget?</p><p></p><p>Remember, that does not include revenue from hosting schools like Auburn/Alabama/Florida/Tennessee/LSU/etc. that have giant fanbases located in Atlanta and travel well. </p><p></p><p>So if you ask about what GT needs to do to compete at the level of Clemson and SEC schools, the best answer will always be this: Make better decisions. That goes for Dodd's decision many decades ago, it goes for the decision of ADs to award dumb contracts we've had to pay off, and it goes to decisions going forward. </p><p></p><p>When I say going forward, here's something to chew on: GT could be playing in the Big 10 right now. It was revealed years ago that the Big 10 extended an offer to GT to join them in the last round of expansion. Given our geography and culture, it was deemed GT staying in the ACC was the better choice. You can debate the merits of that choice, however, here are some cold hard facts: The only conference that distributes more money than the SEC to their schools is the Big 10. They distributed $54 million per school last year. That's $25+/- million more PER YEAR than what the ACC distributes. Extrapolate the difference over time on that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 692905, member: 360"] I tried to do some research of ACC vs SEC from a different angle: The amount of revenue GT lost since just the 1990's till now by leaving the SEC all those years ago. I gave up eventually because I spent about an hour and could find clean data. I didn't want to spend much more time on it TBH. However, something interesting happened recently. Colorado lost their coach Mel Tucker (ex UGA assistant) to Michigan State. Tucker was only at Colorado for a year when he left (and he also questioned the "loyalty" of kids to transfer or decommit....oops), but he was able to double his salary by going to MSU. Much has been made about how Big 10 schools are getting a massive amount of money from their media contracts, and how they are able to poach from other schools. The same can be said about the SEC, as Mississippi State just recently lured Mike Leach from Washington State. This article gives you a good look at the media contracts of different conferences: [URL]https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/05/24/acc-revenue-reaches-465-million-but-distributions-lag-behind-other-power-conferences/[/URL] Each school in the ACC received $29+ million, versus $43+ million for SEC schools. Going forward, if things do not change (it looks to increase), the difference of $14+/- million over the next 5 years is $70+/- MILLION! If you went backwards and did a conservative estimate of the last 20-25 years, that's easily $150-200+ million in media revenue GT has lost out on. How different does the complexion of GT athletics look with $150-200+ million sitting in our budget? Remember, that does not include revenue from hosting schools like Auburn/Alabama/Florida/Tennessee/LSU/etc. that have giant fanbases located in Atlanta and travel well. So if you ask about what GT needs to do to compete at the level of Clemson and SEC schools, the best answer will always be this: Make better decisions. That goes for Dodd's decision many decades ago, it goes for the decision of ADs to award dumb contracts we've had to pay off, and it goes to decisions going forward. When I say going forward, here's something to chew on: GT could be playing in the Big 10 right now. It was revealed years ago that the Big 10 extended an offer to GT to join them in the last round of expansion. Given our geography and culture, it was deemed GT staying in the ACC was the better choice. You can debate the merits of that choice, however, here are some cold hard facts: The only conference that distributes more money than the SEC to their schools is the Big 10. They distributed $54 million per school last year. That's $25+/- million more PER YEAR than what the ACC distributes. Extrapolate the difference over time on that one. [/QUOTE]
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