(10-30-2015 08:31 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  REALITY CHECK: The alleged $2 million bump for no ACC Network by 2017 is critical, IMO. If we assume that has not changed, it means at worst the ACC would be 3rd in terms of payouts behind the SEC and Big Ten:

Conference |TV Revenue, $M/team/yr
SEC | $20.9M (+$6 to $10M)
B1G | $26.4M (+$? tbd)
ACC | $19.3M (+$2M = $21.3M)
Pac-12 | $21.0M
Big XII | $19.8M

The ACC will not catch either of the top two leagues in the foreseeable future, but then, did anyone realistically expect them to? Also, if you think this will make the ACC collapse, does that mean the Pac-12 and Big XII collapse as well? Do we end up with only a P2? (shut up, GTS!)

IMO, by the end of the GoR the ACC ends up paying close to $30M/year (most of the increase being due to the normal escalation of contracts), while the SEC will be paying about $35M/year by then (note: their contract is longer, thus escalates slower; also, some of their income is from the SECN and therefore non-guaranteed). Given $120M/year athletic budgets, is $5M/year (4%) a game-changer?
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SEE ALSO:

http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2015/1...ed-by.html

http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2015/1...art-1.html

This is NOT good news.

The acc does NOT directly compete with the big 12 or Pac 12, unlike the big ten and sec.

The acc isn't just "not catching" the big ten and sec, it is falling further behind.

The acc has the WORST cfp/ny6 deals out of the p5.

I won't bother with your $30m/$35m "gor" comment since it seems like those figures are entirely made up.

As kaplony said, it's ridiculous how people are touting this as good - or at the very least, "it's not so bad" - for the acc when it's very clearly not.