(02-10-2016 09:00 AM)nole Wrote:  Schools will only leave when the GOR is expired.

The GOR doesn't last forever......the ACC's game plan of 'we don't have to change....we are all prisoners' is gonna fail.

Well the GOR expires at the same time the ESPN contract does (after the 2026-2027 season).

(02-10-2016 09:18 AM)Dasville Wrote:  

(02-10-2016 08:53 AM)XLance Wrote:  Any school is free to leave IF they pay the exit fee (which has been upheld in court and has a precedent of being paid) which is 3 x operating expenses (now approx 25-28 million per year ((75M to 84M)) ) AND successfully break the GOR in court. The schools that are left behind will have a tidy nest egg.

I don't think ND would have to pay that amount. 3x whatever they get isn't outrageous for them to buyout. They are party to the GoR and would have to challenge that. Seems like they would have a harder time than others though since they demanded a contract for some content outside the GoR. The ACC and ND worked together to purposefully include them in the GoR. They went to extra effort to make that happen. Perhaps it means nothing regarding the letter of the law, but it does to the spirit of the agreement.

It's my understanding that the ACC Exit Fee is 3X the league's annual operating budget, and has nothing to do with whether the school gets a full share or not... so Notre Dame would owe the full amount in the [unlikely] even they decided to break the contract.