(05-02-2013 08:58 AM)JMUDuke25 Wrote: (05-01-2013 08:10 PM)quo vadis Wrote: e (05-01-2013 06:28 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote: (05-01-2013 06:23 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (05-01-2013 03:37 PM)JMUDuke25 Wrote: Why do you always have to add nonsense to your points to make them? Tell us, wise one, how the ACC would be doomed without a Notre Dame scheduling agreement.
The Notre Dame agreement added a significant amount to the ACC media deal payout, enough to boost it over $20m per school on average. Without that money boost, and the promise of hi
gher hnome attendance when ND visits ACC stadiums, there probably wasn't enough money to gennt ACC schools outside of the Carolina/VA core to sign the GoR, and without the GoR the ACC gets dismembered. Notre
The ND agreement didn't boost it over 20. ND only added a little over a million. The extra came as a "bonus" for signing the GOR so ESPN didn't have to keep renegotiating contracts. I'm guessing the ACC used it as leverage.
Not sure why ESPN would pay a bonus for signing a GoR. Heck if a GoR was worth that much why has the SEC not signed one? Notre Dame was instrumental in getting the GoR thus saving the AcC.
The GOR has nothing to do with ND. It's tied to the creation of an ACC network that should be announced within the next week. Stop making things up.
I'd love for ND to get the credit for "saving" the ACC.
The bump up to over $20 million per school is tied to the GOR and the ACC Network, though.
In truth, I think that ND and the ACC worked well together since last September.
I think that ND and the ACC had a "joint battle plan" worked out and these moves were made in tandem.
First, ND announced the NBC 10 year contract extension.
Then, ND/ACC announced the three year rotation whereby ND would play every single ACC school in football. Every single one, not a chosen few like many thought.
They announced that ND would first travel to FSU and to Clemson. That was part of the plan to make those school happier about the ACC.
Then, the ACC announced that every one of the fifteen current and future ACC schools signed the ten year GOR.
It is no coincidence that the new ND/NBC deal and the new ACC GOR both have ten year terms.
This was all planned out well by ND and the ACC. They were also very stealthy about everything. No leaks, no "insiders".
But, no, the ACC GOR was signed as part of the ACC Network, not solely or predominately because of ND.
I do think ND will be a fairly big part of that network, though.