ESPN Actively Trying to Devalue the ACC

savbandjacket said:
This is exactly why I said it’s important for ACC teams to take care of business out of conference. It’s vitally important to perception and stability of the league. We should all be pulling for a talking up our conference mates in terms of games against non conference opponents.
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Though judging by this take the ACC needs to be undefeated for it to matter.
 
WracerX said:
Look, the ACC only went 0.500 against the ACC and that is embarrassing.
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Fresh in from the ACC office, all inter-conference games will end in a tie for the remainder of the season. There is a training film being sent to each head coach so the plan can be properly implemented.

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I think ESPN/Disney might be pissed about the expansion. It seems like the ACC may have taken advantage of some contract provision wherein ESPN was obligated to pay more to the conference at a predetermined amount, and ESPN, which is currently struggling, is not happy about it. That’s the only thing I can figure where we expanded and there was this known pot of money from the addition (without any word of negotiation) and espn seems hell bent now on talking poorly of the ACC and it’s additions (the recap article this morning takes shots at the acc in a weekend where the conference did pretty well).
 
Meanwhile, the SEC is 3-6 against P5 opponents.

Those three were:
An OT win against Arizona
Awbern getting help from the refs and 3 missed FGs by Cal
UT beating up on a demoralized UVA team.
 
Liberty said:
Didn’t get any better this week. ACC teams are still .500 in conference.
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Awful. I bet the SEC could do better. Week one the SEC 90 ACC 89 over three games. And week two only had the ACC squeak by with 2 wins over the SEC.
 
savbandjacket said:
I think ESPN/Disney might be pissed about the expansion. It seems like the ACC may have taken advantage of some contract provision wherein ESPN was obligated to pay more to the conference at a predetermined amount, and ESPN, which is currently struggling, is not happy about it. That’s the only thing I can figure where we expanded and there was this known pot of money from the addition (without any word of negotiation) and espn seems hell bent now on talking poorly of the ACC and it’s additions (the recap article this morning takes shots at the acc in a weekend where the conference did pretty well).
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If that’s the case, seems like they’d be motivated to increase the value
 
WracerX said:
Awful. I bet the SEC could do better. Week one the SEC 90 ACC 89 over three games. And week two only had the ACC squeak by with 2 wins over the SEC.
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The SEC is already doing better. Nobody in the SEC has a conference loss yet, that's a fact. Nobody.
 
Entertainment companies are going to support the fanatics and for the most part that is not the ACC. Can you ever imagine Bama fans selling their tickets to the Auburn game like we do for the Ugag game? Most of the ACC has either smallish stadiums or lots of empty seats versus the SEC in the same area of the nation with mostly filled larger stadiums. Fairness where every conference is viewed similarly has left...it's now about how many people are at the games (for atmosphere purposes) and even more importantly number of fans watching the game. Only Clempsum, Free Shoes and the thugs truly draw on a national level. There is a reason most of the other schools voted for expansion...if getting left behind at least make sure we have a conference that is going to get paid till 2036 and that only happens if we stay at 15 schools. Otherwise, our tv revenue will drop substantially even beneath the Big XII much less the two power brokers. And not digging on our fan base...I likewise have sold our Ugag tix in the past just because of the pain of being in person at a home sea of red game.
 
Twenty nonconference games have been played between Power 5 conference teams. The results are:
PAC 10 - 6-3
ACC - 4-3 (4-1 vs SEC)
Big 10 - 3-3
Big 12 - 4-5
SEC - 3-6
Once again ESPN and all the experts get it right. SEC clearly dominant. Big 10 a close second. ACC the worst. PAC 10 deserves to die.
 
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