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ESPN Not ACC owns ACC GOR per this FSU video

Re: ESPN Not ACC owns ACC GOR per this FSU video

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If we are held hostage til 2036, let’s just cancel football

Jul 29, 2023, 3:03 PM [ in reply to Re: ESPN Not ACC owns ACC GOR per this FSU video ]

Altogether and be done with it until then. Because being starved of the $$ needed to remain competitive is just a slow death. Let’s take a bullet, get it over with fast instead of waiting for the gas chambers. No one wants that. That is a lose/lose situation.

I have to believe ESPN wants competitive, good games for content in order to attract viewers. Right? Well, that cannot happen if you suffocate the ACC from having similar $$ to remain competitive. At least this way they could cherry pick the ACC programs they know will invest in football to win and cast off the weaker ones thereby allowing them to redirect more money for the desired football programs and let the others less desired ones off the hook completely. This is a win/win situation.

A smart business would look at this as an opportunity to maximize their return on investment better. Who wants to see Duke vs Pitt or Wake vs Syracuse? Not many. So free them from the GOR when Clemson and FSU and UNC move over to the SEC. Take the current ACC $$ and give it to the SEC so they don’t have to dilute their per team payouts.

The only thing that has to be addressed is the ACC side of that contract. You handle that by dissolving the conference. But to do that you have to have at least 8 members agree. To do that, you have to have homes somewhere for at least 8 schools to land and get close to what the current GOR deal pays out now (or more). That should be doable. Especially between the B1G, SEC and Big 12.

3 to the B1G (Miami, Virginia or Vtech, NC State or UNC)
3 to the SEC (Clemson, FSU, UNC or NC State)
2 to the Big 12 (Louisville and maybe GTech)

I could see Duke or GTech being of interest to B1G and Big 12 too.