ESPN has two perspectives on ACC GoR. Help keep it together as a shield against B1G expansion, or destroy it to consolidate and improve their SEC property (this means really destroy the ACC and cut the bad properties for cost savings). Option 2 is just a financial analysis because the ACC deal is so good for ESPN, but I'm sure the math is clear on that for them. Option 2 would also help the B1G by freeing some ACC properties for them, but I doubt that would stop ESPN from helping themselves
Another facet to the evaluations is the BIG 12 media package that ESPN and FOX are at this moment commencing to restructure. Theoretically ESPN could blow up the ACC, add the cream of the ACC to the SEC (and SECN), take second tier ACC programs and add them to the BIG 12. Eliminate the ACCN and fill programming slots with expanded BIG 12 matchups. Lot of evals going on for sure.
I doubt ESPN is wanting any team to get out and go to B1G since they won't have broadcast rights to any of their games in the near future!
lol the times have caught up now and all that **** is made public thanks to team blind and fishbowl.
they released the GoR online w all the AD sigs I believe. its out there word for word for what it says. I dont think anyone is hiding the ball. I mean you can convince yourself that everything is done or there is some magic argument but w the amount of attorneys n here, we all can look at the GoR and theorize arguments that can get UM out of it early
All I am saying is whoever is part of the conversations with the SEC or Big 10 has more likely than not signed NDAs and there are very limited people party to those conversations at this phase, whether you are talking about Miami, Clemson, or whoever. But the NDA goes for when Oklahoma and Texas jumped, A&M jumped, UCLA and USC jumped. Pretty much - these are being treated like high level M&A deals.
that part I get and assume such. I was just referring to the GoR part. all the talks dont matter until we can get out of the GoR. once one school gets into agreement with the ACC or a conference puts up the buyout fee, its open season. since I dont see a conf funding the buyout for a school, its gonna be up to their legal team
Sure. I will say this though. No one wants litigation, no one is going to want the limbo of how long that will take, and no one is going to want 1/4 or so of the conference to be there essentially against their will. If Miami, Clemson, FSU, UNC, or whoever are going to leave, those remaining teams and the conference will need to figure out their next steps and renegotiate their TV deal asap, not putz around until 2036. They cannot do that through a drawn out lawsuit. More likely this is all posturing and the various sides will negotiate a buyout.
litigation is 90 percent of the reason why so many lawyers hate their jobs and lives and leave lol
As an attorney, I have made a very deliberate effort to keep my lane on the transactional side. But seriously, this will not get to that point. It would be madness for everybody. There is a reason so many of these moves get accelerated from what is first proposed.
