ACC Presidents Meet to Discuss Next Steps

[djorange1989]

The other part to consider is does adding teams negate the GOR altogether? If so it’s risky to do that. Second, why would ESPN want to renegotiate if adding teams doesn’t negate it? Not much benefit for them.

It doesn’t negate the GOR, the new teams would have to sign onto the current one, from what I know at least

 

[MikeMcAllister]

It doesn’t negate the GOR, the new teams would have to sign onto the current one, from what I know at least

Yeah some of those legalities I’m unclear on. I thought I had heard new additions nullifies the GOR or at least the penalty related to exiting early from it but I could be remembering incorrectly.

 

[OrangeExtremist]

I think the ACC hasn’t moved on it before because (I could be wrong) but I don’t think the ACC deal with espn adds a share for every school added like the Big 12 contract does. So essentially you’re splitting the same pool more ways. And there’s no brand that would come to the ACC that provides enough value to force a renegotiation. Like Notre dame would. So the amount of money per school could be worse than the big 12 simply by adding teams. There are essentially 18 universities in college football that can win a national title. They spend like they can, they have boosters like they can, they hire and fire like they can. The big 12 has zero of those schools. And yes I know TCU played in the title game. They had no shot. The ACC has 3 of those schools. If Oregon joined the big 12 they would have 1. The ACC is still far and away the better conference. It just doesn’t feel like it because the big 12 is done being poached.