wgdsr wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 1:21 pm
1766 wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:58 pm
7 Acc schools have been exploring getting out of their GOR agreement.
The Acc as a conference is in peril. That's some serious smoke.
if they haven't been looking at it since it became apparent teevee revenue was about to get wider (over a year ago?), that'd be malfeasance. my understanding is the gor is very likely pretty airtight.
so the question would be is what kind of $$ risk would a school want to take? because it would be very, very large. my guess, those schools are looking for some leverage on imbalanced payouts and other perks.
It probably is. Unless a group of teams all leave together thus making the Acc a non entity.
The Acc pie simply isn't big enough to keep all the mouths fed. We saw this in the old Big East. When these schools start demanding bigger pieces of a smaller pie, it spells doom for everyone. The Acc's current model just isn't sustainable. It's similar to what the Big East was complete with allowing ND to park their Olympic sports in the conference but not not the crown jewel of football. Some scheduling arrangement doesn't change that fact.
I'm a Rutgers guy but I am under no illusions. Schools like UNC, Clemson, and FSU aren't going to sit idle while we are getting $70MM/yr checks cut from media rights and they are getting $40MM per year. UNC in particular has been talked a lot about behind the scenes. Jim Delany being an alum and still involved as a consultant with the Big Ten should make that obvious. As with everything things are always fluid and the West Coast being a tent pole now adds new complexity but 20 gets you to a true national conference in every area of the country. Having games on from early morning to late at night is very enticing for the conference.
Jim Delany is a visionary. He saw the opportunity and executed on it. Adding Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers was never the end game. We see that with UCLA/USC.
Adding two more West Coast schools and some combination of Uva/Unc/GT/ND isn't hard to see. That's 20, gets you a true national conference, and raises media rights to some unfathomable number.