Charlotte Observer

From linked Charlotte Observer:

WHAT GRANT OF RIGHTS MEANS
The ACC is the fourth major conference – joining the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 – to enter into a grant of media rights agreement. In a grant of rights agreement, schools agree to surrender their television media rights to their conference for the duration of a television contract.

The ACC’s contract with ESPN, which beginning July 1 will pay schools an average of a little more than $20 million per year, runs through the 2026-27 academic year.

The grant of rights extends any time a new TV contract is renegotiated.

If a school left the ACC, its TV rights would remain with the ACC for the duration of the ACC’s TV contract. A departing school would potentially lose hundreds of millions of dollars in TV revenue, and would bring no TV revenue to another conference.

Additionally, any team leaving the ACC still is subject to the exit fee, which is three times the operating cost of the league budget (now more than $50 million).

I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

(05-04-2013 11:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

If this is correct with a ACC Network each ACC School is looking @ a minimum of $25-26 Million per school and I am being conservative...Damn...

“(ESPN) said obviously, we don’t like it when we hear rumors of people leaving,” Cunningham said. “That is instability in our league. So I guess what you could tell us as a league is if you’re bound together, then we might pay you more for that – or do more things with you or for you.”
. . .
“The connection with the ACC and ESPN (won me over),” Haggard said. “The idea of a possible television (channel) with the ACC, that it would be $5 million more a year, if we could do that. And probably more than that.”
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There are still important matters ahead. The ACC’s spring meetings convene soon, and Swofford and the league’s leaders will discuss bowl tie-ins and, undoubtedly, the prospect of an ACC channel.

(05-05-2013 12:00 AM)Maize Wrote:  

(05-04-2013 11:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

If this is correct with a ACC Network each ACC School is looking @ a minimum of $25-26 Million per school and I am being conservative...Damn...

And that would be just TV money. Doesn't include bowls, playoffs, NCAA Tourney credits, etc.

(05-05-2013 12:00 AM)Maize Wrote:  

(05-04-2013 11:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

If this is correct with a ACC Network each ACC School is looking @ a minimum of $25-26 Million per school and I am being conservative...Damn...

Can we get the network up, running, and turning a profit before we turn into Big Meth fans please?

Cheers,
Neil

(05-05-2013 09:33 AM)omniorange Wrote:  

(05-05-2013 12:00 AM)Maize Wrote:  

(05-04-2013 11:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

If this is correct with a ACC Network each ACC School is looking @ a minimum of $25-26 Million per school and I am being conservative...Damn...

Can we get the network up, running, and turning a profit before we turn into Big Meth fans please?

Cheers,
Neil

Sorry been hanging around too many WVU fans the last 12-18 months...

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no"

(05-05-2013 09:41 AM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(05-05-2013 09:33 AM)omniorange Wrote:  

(05-05-2013 12:00 AM)Maize Wrote:  

(05-04-2013 11:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I think the some of the B12/B1G/SEC fanboys over at the Realignment board should read his article.

$5M+ per team for the Network.

If this is correct with a ACC Network each ACC School is looking @ a minimum of $25-26 Million per school and I am being conservative...Damn...

Can we get the network up, running, and turning a profit before we turn into Big Meth fans please?

Cheers,
Neil

Sorry been hanging around too many WVU fans the last 12-18 months...

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no"

Outside of Jackson & Bitcruncher who cares about them...got a lot of respect for the actual WVU Programs but a lot of their fans wonder why nobody wants to be around them.

Not a WVU Hater but what a lot of them with the way they were acting during realignment just left me SMDH....

IMO, WVU needs to look at how to make themselves more appealing to the ACC in the next 10 years - when the Big XII GoR ends and those 10 teams are scattered, WVU wants to end up in the ACC... JMO.

(05-05-2013 10:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  IMO, WVU needs to look at how to make themselves more appealing to the ACC in the next 10 years - when the Big XII GoR ends and those 10 teams are scattered, WVU wants to end up in the ACC... JMO.

WVU lost their marbles from their administration and fans to their top ranking politicians. When the Big 12 gave pause to reconsider their choice Senator Manchin went on a scorched-earth rampage threatening Mitch McConnel and promising senate investigations like a stark raving lunatic, since then every slanderous rumor started about the ACC with intent to damage has emerged from West Virginia in one form or another. I can't see louisville being a big fan of theirs behind closed doors simply because of the unpredictable nature of their entire outfit. Much less the fact that you need to wear body armor and put earmuffs on your kids to visit morganhole as an opposing fan.

No matter what happens to them I'd rather not be associated again.

Bit and Jackson and a few others had nothing to do with the "insiders" BS.

The guys like The Dude, McAver (or whatever) and Buccaneer who went all over the internet spreading BS have had their fifteen minutes and are DOA. Nobody pays any attention to them.

It is those types of guys who have given WVU fans a bad name. I grew up with lots of WVU fans who are good people.

(05-05-2013 10:44 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Bit and Jackson and a few others had nothing to do with the "insiders" BS.

The guys like The Dude, McAver (or whatever) and Buccaneer who went all over the internet spreading BS have had their fifteen minutes and are DOA. Nobody pays any attention to them.

It is those types of guys who have given WVU fans a bad name. I grew up with lots of WVU fans who are good people.

Now, Terry... let's not go TOO far the other direction, either!

(05-05-2013 10:34 AM)L-yes Wrote:  

(05-05-2013 10:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  IMO, WVU needs to look at how to make themselves more appealing to the ACC in the next 10 years - when the Big XII GoR ends and those 10 teams are scattered, WVU wants to end up in the ACC... JMO.

WVU lost their marbles from their administration and fans to their top ranking politicians. When the Big 12 gave pause to reconsider their choice Senator Manchin went on a scorched-earth rampage threatening Mitch McConnel and promising senate investigations like a stark raving lunatic, since then every slanderous rumor started about the ACC with intent to damage has emerged from West Virginia in one form or another. I can't see louisville being a big fan of theirs behind closed doors simply because of the unpredictable nature of their entire outfit. Much less the fact that you need to wear body armor and put earmuffs on your kids to visit morganhole as an opposing fan.

No matter what happens to them I'd rather not be associated again.

As I noted on the CR board...the WVU to ACC bridge has been burned at both ends, bombed, nuked, dug up shot into outer space and photon torpedoed. If an atom of that bridge exists it is so far away it would take a million years for it to get back to earth. I am pretty sure both sides are happy with that.

(05-05-2013 10:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  IMO, WVU needs to look at how to make themselves more appealing to the ACC in the next 10 years - when the Big XII GoR ends and those 10 teams are scattered, WVU wants to end up in the ACC... JMO.

Since they have 12-14 years to work on it - the goals need to be a top 100 USNWR ranking, preferably better, a Carnegie Foundation classification of RU/VH, plus keep their athletics at a comparable level to current.