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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4694456, member: 71"] We've had discussions ad nauseam on the GOR. If a school were to leave early one of two things would happen (after payment of departure fees): 1 - the school and the ACC reaches an agreement on a buyout of the GOR. 2 - they leave it up to the courts to decide. If there is a buyout (more likely scenario as it would mitigate quite a big of risk for all sides), the number could easily reach nine figures. If they were to determine present value of future cash flows (at some agreed upon discount rate) project what $30 million annually for a decade and a half would reach. This isn't necessarily how the buyout would be determined (as something like this has never happened) but logically, as it is a long held method in business for monetizing long term value, it holds a strong possibility as a starting point. If it is left up to the courts anything is possible. One explanation (from when the ACC members first signed the GOR) was that it was similar to publishing rights for music. If you look at what happened in the 1990's when the Verve used a Rolling Stones song without prior permission or attribution, the Stones sued and were awarded all revenues from sales and usage of the song. I doubt that either the SEC or B1G would add a school before the GOR was resolved solely due to the possibility of the ACC retaining the revenues from games played by the school that left the ACC. [/QUOTE]