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The author is blown away because it wasn't ESPN that got the carriage for the ACC Network and SEC Network. It was The Walt Disney Company that got the carriage. Cable providers for the most part won't risk losing all families with kids by losing the Disney Channel and ABC. They'll give...

The ACC's experience at Barclays Center last year was positive. The Semifinals had sold out attendance. But both the Barclays Center and MSG have long term contracts with the Atlantic 10 and the Big East respectively. And MSG only wants a long term annual agreement. The ACC had to negotiate...

Wake Forest has 8 NCAA team championships in 4 different sports. Wake Forest is 8-4 in bowl games, and defeated Texas A&M last month. Wake Forest is 28-23 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament with 23 appearances including 2017. These are not laughing stock records. Wake Forest would...

It's really difficult at this point to tell what the ACC would do. I could have told you what the ACC team that studied expansion in 2012 would do, but we have mostly new players now. UVA, UNC, VT, Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, Florida State, Louisville, and Clemson all have new Presidents, and most...

If you read the media out there in Minnesota land, they're not seeing that the extra dollars in the check are worth it. They want the Midwest conference they are used to. Not much interest in being in the east at all. In fact more complaints. Muddled Big Ten basketball schedule a result...

The Ivy League deemphasized sports starting in the 1950s when it was formed. That should create an opportunity for others to fill the vacuum, as it was a very long time ago. I've seen the time when UConn was selling out its football stadium a decade ago. The coach who did it is back, and...

Regional rivalries are what drives fan interest and attention IMO. It's important to have them and to promote them in both cases. Both sides tune in to follow what the rival side is doing. BC's DeFilippo didn't think that important, but I think he's wrong. I don't think BC can represent all...

Yes. It's the same thing. Pitt, Miami, and Georgia Tech too. With all the pro sports competition the schools in those towns have to be having championship type seasons to get any attention, kind of how Miami was rolling this year. When they have awful years like BC a few years ago, no one is...

Louisville Athletics functions as the professional sports franchise for their 1.5 million person metro area. They have virtually no competition other than their rivalry with UK, and that rivalry only enhances the attention of the area with its disposable sports entertainment dollar. That's why...

I'm not hearing a lot of calls to kick Louisville out of the conference. The UVA President is certainly not going to get involved with how another university president spends his/her university's endowment funds. The auditors at Louisville took issue with the spending, but Louisville President...

Interesting perspective, but as someone in the ACC, just not feeling it. It's hard to reconcile with recent articles like this This A.C.C. Might Be the Best Basketball League Ever and the ACC winning 11 out of the 14 games in the ACC-B1G challenge for men's basketball a couple of months...

Those games in Lynchburg won't be like a VT road game. All that will do is reduce the commute for the convoys that drive to the VT home games from Richmond, Tidewater, and Northern Virginia by 90 minutes. Liberty may have a larger stadium by then, and it will sell out for that game. The VT...

I like it too. 8 of the 12 are in the ACC now. Bring in UConn and WVU, and we'd have 10. Leave ND alone doing what ND is doing.

Just a Michigan fan from Detroit showing how thrilled he is to have Maryland and Rutgers on Michigan's schedule. He's gone back to trying to pull Notre Dame, UVA, and UNC into the B1G instead. No thanks.

I remember reading that interview by Mark Blaudshun at the time. Gene DeFilippo was part of the push for Pittsburgh. He held a grudge over the lawsuit of 2003. But he is gone now. With BC now scheduling UConn and UMass regularly, hopefully they recognize that they truly do need regional...

The ACC has both football constituencies and basketball constituencies to keep happy. That diversity is what gives the ACC its strength. Championships in both at the same time is kind of nice. I have no doubt that Coach K wants the strongest basketball additions possible. He has also been...

Pittsburgh was taken for several reasons by the ACC. Pennsylvania market, football history, existing Notre Dame football rivalry, etc. The Big XII discussions about and with Pittsburgh, linked, prompted action on Pittsburgh by the ACC. It's the only time I can remember the ACC making a move...

Actually it was Pittsburgh that was to thwart the Big 12. Louisville was there for the Big XII for over a year, and was not taken by the ACC until after Maryland decided to leave the ACC. The Big XII chose to be stay at 10 and be paid for 12 rather than expand to 12, so they didn't take...

Not only believe it. I'm watching it play out. Throwing B1G national championship numbers out is like the Ivy League claiming the most football national championships. They have the most. But when you have to go back 50 years to find them, what difference does it make? Same with the B1G.

Maryland winning Women's Lacrosse Championships isn't much of a fluke. They have something like 20 of them. If Michigan is excited about having that in the league, feature women's lacrosse more on the BTN. Debbie Yow built Maryland into a women's sports power. Show more of women's sports on...

I'm sure FSU and Clemson fans will appreciate the pity while they all walk around with Football National Champions t-shirts from the past 4 years, and those Duke and North Carolina fans will do the same with NCAA Men's Basketball Champions t-shirts from the past 3 years. It may let them get...

The point is that the pay for taking such abuse compensates more than enough for any concerns. And by the way, ND's contract with the CFP is rather small. They get only $2.58 million per year guaranteed plus a fraction of the $6 million for a playoff game and $4 million for a non-playoff NY6...

Half of $56 million is $28 million. $2 million times 14 is $28 million. I can get to the same amount two different ways.

The next year was rather good as well. Maryland paid $31 million, and the CFP money started to kick in. ACC reports $100 million increase in total revenue in 2015 There is no official announcement of the ND part of the contract increase. CBS speculated in 2013 for it to be over $1 million...

Best I have is this one, but out of that $56 million for the 3 teams, everyone internally attributed the ND part to about half of it. ACC: Record $291.7M in revenue for 2013-14

The per school payout to ACC members increased close to $2 million per member after the 5 ND football games added and other sports. With 14 members the math isn't complicated. That $15 million number for ND is before the latest renegotiation. That was a 2005 number as well as an estimate...

The new contract through 2036-37 yes. I was talking about what happened in 2012.

It was announced that there was an increase in revenue by ESPN starting in 2017, but it was never announced how much it is. But everyone has signed on until 2036-2037 including Notre Dame. There are 3 5 year contract reviews to reset everything. The next one is in 2022. And if the ACC adds 2...

No. The $28 million started in 2013 when ND joined. It has not been disclosed what the extension rates are.

You keep saying that the ACC got used by giving ND a placeholder for sports and got nothing out of it. The ACC got 5 annual ND football games and about $28 million per year from ESPN. It is 5 football games that the ACC did not have before and $28 million that the ACC did not have before...

They used their connections with The Catholic 7 to join The Big East, and then barely ever stepped foot on the field with any of its football members. After that conference imploded they used their brand value to leverage a generous deal out of The ACC when that group was dealing from a position...

Kevin could be a little more explanatory on why South Carolina left the ACC. The recruiting regulations had to do with academic standards. The ACC had higher academic standards than the NCAA at the time, and the USC football coach Paul Dietzel was recruiting football players that would not...

The slow march seems to be to get to 4 rather than 8. I like your list of members trying to get to 80 nationwide. Bob Ryan got into it with the Gamecock fans saying that USC made a huge mistake getting out of the ACC. It's been over 45 years since that took place, and you'd pretty much have...

Those divisions would be how it would start out since they exist and are used for baseball and soccer as well as football. For football, they would evolve to some sort of rotating PODS discussed earlier. With a third Florida team, Disney would start pushing for more ACC events at the ESPN Wide...

I agree with you about that Indiana/Ohio territory. The ACC is totally unfamiliar. It's basically heart of the Big Ten territory. It would be like the Big Ten adding ECU. Sort of futile to get any traction. UConn is the only G5 on the east that flips a state. There are some in the...