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I am curious if any of you insiders know what Tech may have to do to complete this project. I have heard about us spending $10M on a studio, etc. but honestly what I am most interested in is this:

Considering that both interesting and volumetric content matters, has there been any study result provided regarding other conferences successes. What sports matter the most and what kind of commitment would small sports program GT have to potentially change to help out?

In other words, is soccer or lacrosse or women's golf on our horizon simply due to helping provide content?

I have always felt that we don't need anywhere near as much money to succeed as Ohio State for example. The number of sports we offer is much less and many schools have to spend a lot on women's sports to meet Title IX. Do we get to pocket an extra $10M+ or will we need to spend more on new ad selling sports?
 
The B1G and Longhorn network show football most of the time and basketball the rest of the time.

Given that both of those are pretty much football conferences/schools and given that geographically, the ACC is half football, half basketball and half neither, not sure what to expect. Likely 60% basketball, 30% football and 10% elitist tobacco road snob stuff.
 
For some reason I thought we were obligated to pay $20 mil. Maybe I'm misremembering.

I think we may be hitting saturation point with these conference networks. If I had to guess, I'd say most of them will have folded or become afterthoughts within the next 10 years.
 
I disagree on the folding thing. Cable has expanded out to more and more specific categories. ACC has a market potential of 90,000,000 people. They don’t have to draw much to make a buck. I don’t watch the Big or Sec channel simply because I could care less; the ACC will change that for me.
 
Panic in the Pac-12 as conference quickly falls behind rivals
Link
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...erence-quickly-falls-behind-rivals/686880002/

Highlights from the article:

1. The Pac-12 Conference is projected to fall far behind other Power 5 conferences over the next five years in revenue-sharing and won’t even reach $38 million in payouts per school until 2023, according to budget documents recently provided by Pac-12 member Washington State.

2. By comparison, the Big Ten is expected to provide payouts to schools this year that exceed $51 million. Even the Atlantic Coast Conference soon is expected to rocket past $40 million after previously ranking last in school payouts among the Power 5.

3. Some Pac-12 school officials recently have grumbled dissatisfaction about the payout disparity and accepted that it wouldn’t improve dramatically until around 2023-24, when the league’s current TV contracts expire with ESPN and Fox. The recent budget projections from WSU put the next five years into stark specific terms.This year, the payout estimate is $31.5 million. It then is projected to go up incrementally to $32.7 million in fiscal year 2019, $35.3 million in 2021 and $38.1 million in 2023, according to the payout projection range confirmed by WSU officials.

4. Every other Power 5 league either has exceeded the $40 million payout mark already or is projected to get there in a year or two at most

5.The Southeastern Conference reported an average payout of about $41 million for fiscal year 2017. In the ACC, recent payouts have ranged from $25 million to $31 million. But that is expected to increase significantly after next year, when the ACC and ESPN launch the ACC Network. Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox said at a university board of trustees meeting last year that the average payout is projected to increase by $10 million to $15 million after 2019, which would put payouts above $40 million.

6. In the Big 12, the league recently announced an average distribution of $36.5 million for fiscal year 2018. Unlike other conferences, the Big 12 payout figure doesn’t include individual schools’ separate media rights deals for some games not selected by its big broadcast partners. Those separate deals boost those members’ revenues even more and is almost $20 million more at Texas alone (Longhorn Network)
 
SVG College Summit: ACC Athletic Departments Share Their Preparations For Next Year’s ACC Network Launch
Link
https://www.sportsvideo.org/2018/06...eparations-for-next-years-acc-network-launch/

With the ESPN-supported ACC Network still more than a year away from launch, ACC schools are in a mad dash to prepare their facilities.

The conversation included Rick Bagby, Assistant Athletic Director, Video and Technology at Clemson University; Andy Blanton, Assistant AD, Video and Broadcast Services at Georgia Tech; Ken Cleary, Assistant Athletic Director, Go Heels Productions and Creative Services at the University of North Carolina; Chad Lampman, Executive Director of Blue Devil Network at Duke University; and Josh Shibler, VP and Project Executive at the systems integrator CTG. The session was moderated by Scott Hecht, Senior Producer at Syracuse University.
 
In the ACC, recent payouts have ranged from $25 million to $31 million. But that is expected to increase significantly after [2017], when the ACC and ESPN launch the ACC Network. Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox said at a university board of trustees meeting last year that the average payout is projected to increase by $10 million to $15 million after 2019, which would put payouts above $40 million.

Link:
https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2018/06/2017-fsu-ad-statement-revisited.html
 
The ACC Network is expected to boost per-school distributions by at least $10 million per year, more than double what the Pac-12 Networks have done so far.
Link:
http://awfulannouncing.com/league-n...-the-conference-shooting-past-the-pac-12.html

It’s remarkable that the ACC could shoot past the Pac-12 under even the most conservative internal projections, but $10 million per school per year not only sends the ACC well past the Pac-12, it moves it closer to the Big 12 and the SEC. And that’s a conservative estimate; some have projected this could go as high as $15 million per school per year.
 
The only way that Tech and the ACC can compete for any better is if and when we can compete on the field and create a bigger fan base. The only way that happens is to take better players AND get away from the current broadcast every game ACC strategy. Having fans in the seats is really going to matter coming up.
 
Good Info. Contrary to several beliefs, the league leaders are aware of the challenges, but they are also very hopeful and encouraged..

Link
https://pilotonline.com/sports/college/article_d2f5b3cc-7a2f-11e8-bef3-df7e58cacc52.html


"The revenue gap has never been larger and likely will grow until the ACC Network debuts. The overarching question is: How much can the channel bridge the gulf?

Disney’s October carriage agreement with Altice, a cable provider that serves New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, was an encouraging start. Disney is ESPN’s parent company, and the Altice deal includes not only ESPN, but also the ACC and SEC networks."
 
Our gap has really widened recently, sad to see.

As I have stated many times before, the ACC's ability to go forward is directly related to GT's choice to compete. Period. When we compete, the ACC does very well statistically. (as we stand today, the Big Ten would never take us)

Will someone go knock some heads around in the administration!
 
midatlantech said:
Our gap has really widened recently, sad to see.

As I have stated many times before, the ACC's ability to go forward is directly related to GT's choice to compete. Period. When we compete, the ACC does very well statistically. (as we stand today, the Big Ten would never take us)

Will someone go knock some heads around in the administration!
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Tstan will
 
midatlantech said:
Our gap has really widened recently, sad to see.

As I have stated many times before, the ACC's ability to go forward is directly related to GT's choice to compete. Period. When we compete, the ACC does very well statistically. (as we stand today, the Big Ten would never take us)

Will someone go knock some heads around in the administration!
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Rutgers and Maryland weren’t competitive when they joined the Big 10.
 
midatlantech said:
Our gap has really widened recently, sad to see.

As I have stated many times before, the ACC's ability to go forward is directly related to GT's choice to compete. Period. When we compete, the ACC does very well statistically. (as we stand today, the Big Ten would never take us)

Will someone go knock some heads around in the administration!
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There have been many, since 1968, trying to do that. They have been met with a stampede of nellies screaming that their degrees will be devalued.
 
I have seen SEC softball games on TV before and did watch for a few minutes to check out the girls. Maybe we can do something to compete with other conferences for that market segment.
 
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