The amount of time matters significantly. Not only being able to assess the value of 1 year vs 10 years but the bigger problem FSU has right now is that whatever the ACC does sets a precedent that they have to live with for 12 years. Strike a deal with FSU today, then UNC, Clemson, etc have precedent to insist on the same deal tomorrow.
At some point the ACC will have agreed to dilute the ESPN deal simply by virtue of allowing payments in lieu of GOR. ESPN can then come at the ACC for breach of contract, right? Whatever payment ACC accepts has to take all of that into consideration.
It’s not quite as simple as arriving at a number. The ACC has a responsibility to ESPN and the GOR is their only vehicle to fulfill that responsibility.
FSU, Clemson, UNC are at the top. FSU - legendary program that keeps firing coaches till the get it right, just went undefeated. Clemson - tons of donations, winning on field, no scandals. UNC basketball legendary and a national brand, good donations, hired football coach who has great track record. Gt looks pitiful until we got a new president. Now we seem to have some life - NEW President - got the word at the spring acc meeting a few years ago and has been very positive and active. He has hired a good AD who is marketing to city of Atlanta. In Football we had a strong finish with bowl game. In Basketball we fired a guy that had scrartched out ACC tournemnt win and we have hired a passionate coach who starred in NBA. We flipped the team roster flipped and are likely to have a good recruiting class.
DOOM is where we are money wise = $250,000,000 debt and yearly alumni donations below $20,000,000 which is near bottom of ACC. This data is available online at the Knight Financial Data Base for NCAA athletics. GT has only made interest payments ($12,000,000) for over decade. The ESPN ACC , advertisers see this data. From a money stand point we look like free loaders.
I am sure giant ESPN/ACCN contract has required performance on each side of the contract.
When the the tv side sends a notice of failure to perform letter, things will need to happen fast on the money side.
At that time, just pointing out we are doing better than terrible is not a good plan. We will need to also have a pledged sack of money.
I wonder if we can get enough engineers to donate to a "lets us do a major part of building a championship quality football program".
go big football fund
happen fact to keep gt from being bankrup future - if we are lucky enough to have time - there will be a request for long term pledges to keep GT football out of
Even if its not specfici, lawyers will be able to find a way to make life misrable for us.