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It'll be nice to get out own "champions bowl" out of this maybe with the pac 12 or b1g due to the nd relationship with USC and the b1g schools
well until they can become champions that won't happen.
It'll be nice to get out own "champions bowl" out of this maybe with the pac 12 or b1g due to the nd relationship with USC and the b1g schools
This is a nice short term deal, And probably earns GT a couple more mil per year. Add in the upped buyout to keep FSU and Clemson, and there is reason to be happy.
But, let's not go overboard yet. ND will give the ACC the same consideration it would have without this deal.
We still have to compete with the B1G and maybe the Big Texas. We still have to see if NBC wants to re-up after the current contract ends.
We now have a timetable to court Penn State, and have Rutgers and Uconn in the wings if they don't want to come. But sew up Penn St, and I think it's a no brainer for ND to join if the NBC money dries up. If NBC offers them another giant contract, they will want to stay independent.
At the very least, we get more money per year before ND uses and loses the ACC like the big least.At the most, we get Penn State and ND to add two of the more storied programs in CFB.
The latter is still a long shot, but it is much more likely than it was yesterday.
Tl;dr- Good deal with potential to be great.
At the current time it doesn't make sense to add a "16th team" since ND is not a member. He didn't say anything about looking or not looking in or around 2015.
Sure he did. He said we wouldn't add another school because then we would have 15 football playing schools. Notre Dame is not going to be an ACC football playing school.
Essentially, the deal boils down like this:
What Notre Dame gets:
- Play in ACC for all non-football sports...full revenue share there
- Play 5 ACC games per year. When they play at ND, NBC gets to show the game (3 one year, 2 the next, etc) and thus, they negotiate their TV contract accordingly
- ND gets full revenue share of all non-BCS bowls that other ACC teams play in
- ND does not get BCS revenue from any ACC team playing in the BCS BUT (and this is important), the ACC doesn't get revenue when ND plays in a BCS game either
(Remember this begins in 2014, when the new 4-team playoff kicks in...if Notre Dame were to make it into that playoff and go win the national championship, the ACC would get zilch from it)
What ACC gets:
- Gets to play Notre Dame 5 games per year
- Adds Notre Dame in all sports except football
- Gets to re-up TV contract with ESPN to account for the 2 or 3 games per year being broadcasted at ACC home venue
- Gets to think they're relevant in football now
You missed probably the most important "pro" for the ACC: security against conference implosion. Notre Dame was the ultimate defensive move. The ACC is here to stay now.
What ACC gets:
- Gets to play Notre Dame 5 games per year
- Adds Notre Dame in all sports except football
- Gets to re-up TV contract with ESPN to account for the 2 or 3 games per year being broadcasted at ACC home venue
- Gets to think they're relevant in football now
Sometimes, a deal makes sense not for what it does for you at the time but for two other reasons: what it allows you to do in the future and for what it prevents your competitors from doing in the future.
If college football is a chess match, Swofford just made one of those Bobby Fischer moves that leaves you scratching your head until about five moves later when all your men are belong to him.
Sit back, enjoy the ride and let Swofford's master plan unfold. It will be a good thing. You'll see.
http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-tech-sports/2012/09/12/huge-day-for-acc-as-notre-dame-joins/?cxntfid=blogs_georgia_tech_sports
According to this article, none of what you proposed above is going to happen. From Swofford's own mouth, we are no longer pursuing another school for the ACC AND he knows that Notre Dame will not be joining in football at any point.
A year after expanding to 14 with Pittsburgh and Syracuse, the league may have completed its realignment maneuvers by adding Notre Dame as its 15th member. At a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., commissioner John Swofford called the addition of a 16th school “illogical,” as it would unbalance the league’s two football divisions with 15 teams.
As far as TV contracts go, Notre Dame's NBC contract gets to broadcast the home games vs the ACC and ESPN gets the other games. One year, ND gets 3 home and 2 roads and then it flips the next. The ACC is already going back to ESPN to up the TV contract money because of the additional 2 or 3 games, depending on the year, with Notre Dame.
The ACC said they were done expanding after they added VPISU, BC, and Miami too. Oh and they said they were done after they added Pitt and Syracuse.
One day you'll learn they don't tell the media the truth.
The ACC said they were done expanding after they added VPISU, BC, and Miami too. Oh and they said they were done after they added Pitt and Syracuse.
One day you'll learn they don't tell the media the truth.
Actually, they did NOT say they were done after adding Pitt and Syracuse. Swofford said "we have no intentions of further additions AT THIS TIME". And, I'm pretty sure they didn't foresee the whole 16-team megaconferences coming up at the time we added VT, BC, and Miami....that was kind of forced on the ACC by the moves of the other conferences.
POSSIBLY, if an ACC team were to win all of their regular season games and the ACC championship, the addition of Notre Dame MIGHT help them in strength of schedule. But only if that team played ND that year. Otherwise, it doesn't really change the landscape.
Umm....ok. Sure thing. I'll put my blind faith in Swofford. Sorry for the alarm...my bad.:rolleyes:
Does Vad Lee approve of all this?
That joke was made on page 28.
'Tard.
The ACC has a leg up on all other conferences in getting ND to join in football full time. Here's why:
a) They're locked into playing 5 ACC football teams a year.
b) There's a 50 million dollar penalty to break the deal.
c) No other conference is gonna give them 5 open dates.
Now if ND wants to pony up 50 big ones, so be it.