Big10 TV Deal Announced

I can't wait to see what happens when the politicians get involved and start regulating conference expansion. Legal implications abound.
The real SEC ( Securities and Exchange) commission is going to have a field day!
And ESPN is still going broke.
 
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savbandjacket said:
Yep. Let’s all enjoy our last few years of playing major college football.
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We might as well stick a fork in it. I'm hard pressed to fathom a conference that would want to pony up $100 mil a year to GT. I hope I'm wrong, but it is looking more like Big 12 or Conf USA as $$$ continues to destroy college football. ACC will eventually implode. Who will be left sitting on the curb?
 
ESPN has ACC teams by the balls with the idiotic GOR. Their goal is profit maximization. They'll milk our conference for any return they can get on the existing contract, then move on like parasites to their next lifesource once our conference has been sucked dry.
 
OmnipoTech said:
They can laugh all they want, they still haven't won öööö.
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That is like if I won the state HS basketball championship then a decade or so later drove my 1997 POS Ford Festiva by the captain of the losing team's beachfront $40 million mansion on Longboat Key and said "you ain't won öööö, bitch" while waving my championship ring out the window.

Yea, I won, but that dude living large.
 
I think one of the missing pieces is the gambling industry.

Everyone is focused on TV revenue but there is another giant lurking in the shadows.
 
Here's where my hopes lie... No way Clemson, FSU, Miami, etc. sit back making $30M or however much from the ACC for the next 14 year while Maryland and Rutgers pull in $80-$100M from the B1G. It may not be us, but somebody is going to bust us all out of the GoR if it continues this way and then we just hope we land somewhere soft. I think we will.
 
I think it interesting that we are tied to ESPN for games yet just about the only thing they discuss is the SEC.
 
JJacket said:
That is like if I won the state HS basketball championship then a decade or so later drove my 1997 POS Ford Festiva by the captain of the losing team's beachfront $40 million mansion on Longboat Key and said "you ain't won öööö, bitch" while waving my championship ring out the window.

Yea, I won, but that dude living large.
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Yea...not really. More like the guy that goes out and spends thousands of dollars on all the latest golf gear, only to find out he still sucks at golf and can't beat the high schooler with a few goodwill clubs. The goal is to be good at the sport, and having a bunch of money might help them look the part, but bottom line is they still suck.
 
To put these rough figures into perspective, this Big10 media deal would nearly double every ACC school’s *entire* athletic budget - at least those that are publicly available.

Atlantic Coast Conference | College Athletics Database

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To Tech specifically, the entire athletic department took in $86M last year. The big ACC guys like Clemson and FSU are in the $120M per year range. Big 10 are slated to make that alone from their TV deal.

This is nuts.
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
To put these rough figures into perspective, this Big10 media deal would nearly double every ACC school’s *entire* athletic budget - at least those that are publicly available.

Atlantic Coast Conference | College Athletics Database

knightnewhousedata.org

To Tech specifically, the entire athletic department took in $86M last year. The big ACC guys like Clemson and FSU are in the $120M per year range. Big 10 are slated to make that alone from their TV deal.

This is nuts.
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What % of our athletic department's revenue is from our current TV deal? Around half? I think when you account for that, going to Big X probably wouldn't actually double our budgets. Still a crazy disparity though.
 
andrew said:
What % of our athletic department's revenue is from our current TV deal? Around half? I think when you account for that, going to Big X probably wouldn't actually double our budgets. Still a crazy disparity though.
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If my numbers are right, ACC disbursed $36M last year. So, call it 40% for Tech.

theathletic.com

ACC generates record revenue in 2020-21 fiscal year

The conference, which had its schools schedule 11 football games during the COVID-19-impacted 2020 season, did not suffer the same kind of pandemic-induced financial hits that other conferences experienced during that time period.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
 
I think some of you are [incorrectly] assuming ESPN is not trying to influence conference re-alignment.
 
The Champ said:
Only a 7 year deal too; so the Big 10 can renegotiate for a new $14 billion deal in 2030, well before this 20-year lemon the ACC signed up for is over.
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Chime in the "at the time nobody could see where college football was headed and it looked like a good decision" crowd.
 
WREKedinTexas said:
I can't wait to see what happens when the politicians get involved and start regulating conference expansion. Legal implications abound.
The real SEC ( Securities and Exchange) commission is going to have a field day!
And ESPN is still going broke.
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Perhaps politicians in another state (I don't see the Georgia legislature doing it) will outlaw the GOR. I think a state could simply say that a college President doesn't have the authority to sign such a deal without BoR or State Legislature approval. Which if you think about it, GOR is dependent on the ability of college Presidents having the authority to grant millions of dollars to other states. That sounds dubious to me that a college president would have that authority. I don't even think most Governors have that discretion.
 
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