(10-21-2020 08:45 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d like to know what the ACC intends to do to help narrow the giant revenue gap between what ESPN pays them and what ESPN pays the favorite child, the SEC?

I think the ACC hopes that ND as a full member is going to be the lightning in a bottle that keeps them relevant and In the same universe financially as the leading revenue generators. ND has to be willing to do that and while us non-ND folks see wisdom in the Irish fully consummating their relationship with the ACC, the Fighting Irish hardliners will go on resisting.

If this isn’t attainable, I don’t know how the league gets their tv payouts upped the next time they are up for negotiation. And if ND is going to get preferential treatment what’s to stop Florida St, Clemson, or Miami demanding concessions?

Some folks like to tout Texas as an ACC enhancer but the geography and culture just doesn’t match. Texas vs [insert ACC school] doesn’t have the same sort of appeal as putting them on the same field with TAMU, LSU, and Arkansas.

Any ideas out there about how to up the ACC’s value?

#15- Notre Dame
#16- Texas

There is no other play that could increase revenue faster or higher than to add that pair. The revenue increases would come primarily through ACCN subscriptions (whether that is the ACCN as a linear cable option or a streaming option in the future).
Even if Texas joins with a Notre Dame type membership, the impact on the network would be the single fastest way to boost revenue for the ACCN as well as for ESPN in general.