(05-20-2017 08:40 AM)TexanMark Wrote: (05-19-2017 11:30 PM)nzmorange Wrote: (05-19-2017 04:03 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: To be fair, it would be bigger news if he had said "we are hosed" (not that I think that is the case).
Fortunately, there are some mitigating factors in the meantime...
1. For 2017, the ACC gets Orange Bowl money but the Sugar and Rose bowls are semi-finals. True, unless Notre Dame is it, either the SEC or B1G will get OB money, but at least one of them won't... And if it's the B1G, the ACC gets Citrus bowl money.
2. All ACC teams get the $3 million "no network" money. That is for 2018 also.
BOTTOM LINE: 2017 should be fine, though there will be a significant shortfall in 18.
The sooner the OB is renegotiated, the better we'll be. That deal was/is an unmitigated disaster. I'm sure there was a backstory to it, but I haven't heard it.
The backstory was the SEC got in bed with the Big12 and screwed over the ACC (not that I blamed them). The ACC was at a Nadir of football prestige (the Big East was considered a peer football league at the time). Thankfully FSU and Clemson have turned things around for the league to give a jolt of energy to everyone. The ACC needs Miami to regain their status. Throw in a revitalized Hokies and continued strength from Ville, and sprinkle in runs by Cuse, Pitt, GTech, UNC, and State and the ACC will join the group as the Big Three.
When everything gets redone in about 2023/24/25, I see the B10 and SEC as 1A and 1B in total revenue, and the ACC and PAC as 2A and 2B. And the B12 is "Poof" (incl the LHN). The difference between 1 and 2 will be roughly $6-9m per year per team. At least 7 of the 10 B12 teams will have been absorbed into PAC/B10/ACC/SEC.
I envision the B10 and the PAC working more closely together on regular season and bowl games. I see the SEC and ACC working more closely together on regular season and bowl games.
The ACC will still be the leader in Basketball.
I am hopeful that the ACC will have become consistently viewed as #1/2 in FB.
All the Bowl deals will have been redone.
Notre Dame will have done whatever it wants, but probably staying FB Independent.
Texas's view of itself will not have changed much, so it will do what it wants to do since it is the unbridled Longhorn in the corral.
BYU will still be unique.
Cincinnati, Houston and Connecticut (and UCF/USF) will still not have been allowed to join the club yet.
The now-P4 will have become MUCH more professional. The NCAA and P4 will have reached new understandings which further separate them from everyone else.
P4 game attendance will be down a little more and media viewership up a little more.