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And if anyone questions him, Echevarria has a simple retort: It's just business.

"We are proud members of the ACC. If the economics were even, we wouldn't be having any of these conversations," he told Yahoo Sports in an interview this week. "Thing is, we sit in the second tier. It's a reason we don't get a vote on the 24-team playoff and the Big Ten and SEC do."


"The fact is that we won about every game you could win last year and maxed out in revenue in our current [ACC] sharing model. And we made the same amount of money as other institutions [in the Big Ten and SEC] whose football programs operate at different levels of investment and performance."

If projections are accurate, Echevarria says, the Big Ten and SEC, already distributing an average of $25 million more to each of their schools than the ACC, will almost double their edge when they renegotiate their television contracts in 2030 — the year that the SEC may execute a look-in clause with ESPN and when the Big Ten's current media rights deal expires.

The ACC's binding television contract with ESPN doesn't end until 2036, and though the league pushed through an uneven revenue distribution model, the financial inequities with the power two leagues is fixed — still very much a frustrating point for administrators like Echevarria.
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The ACC is DEAD. These guys KNOW that and just play on audience like OP who may not understand it.. EVERYTHING is run by money and the conference signed its faith with death row tv deal yearsss ago.. We still have almost 10 years left on a terrible TV deal and these other conferences have already lapped us and will be up for renegotiation again before we would ever get to table..

Of course it would be ideal to stay in conference and have path to playoffs but as years go on and gap goes from 25 to 40 to who knows how much more millions, it would be insane to stay in a g6 level conference.. The talent drain has already happened and barely anyone is watching acc games as is, so the new tv deal whenever it would happen would probably be worse.. Its over.. Its unfortunate because at time of TV deal ACC was putting NFL talent close to SEC and was for sure the #2 league, but the higher ups sold the conference out at ESPN capitalized to basically buy it and shelf it to eliminate competition for SEC.
 
mynameisjeff said:
I think we do. But I can't lie, this column got me thinking. He raises some good points.

As long as CFB is in its current format, I think we're fine in the ACC. The problem is we can't risk getting left behind when the super league eventually forms.

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The media contracts place Miami and other ACC programs at a financial disadvantage when compared to the SEC and BIG10.

I think we would ultimately pay the difference to remain competitive, but there's no loyalty to a conference that places our program in such a disadvantageous financial position.
 
Pearson704 said:
The media contracts place Miami and other ACC programs at a financial disadvantage when compared to the SEC and BIG10.

I think we would ultimately pay the difference to remain competitive, but there's no loyalty to a conference that places our program in such a disadvantageous financial position.
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It still blows my mind that Miami and all the other ACC schools signed that stupid media/Grant of Rights deal some years ago. Did no one have the foresight that this was a bad idea?
 
edge said:
Not going read the article. Does it outline the fact that Vanderbilt made as much money as Miami last year despite all the payouts Miami received from the postseason? If not, stupid take.
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Oh yeah, we definitely need to leave the ACC. Vanderbilt shouldn't even be able to be mentioned alongside Miami when it comes to anything.
 
ACC is unsustainable. Even if Miami goes undefeated, the revenue sharing in the Power 2 is killing us.
 
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