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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4831644, member: 833"] Most of the arguments about growing rights fees seem to ignore this thing called “streaming” which is transforming entertainment. I will not rehash every point I have made in the past, but I do believe that every conference is on its last massive linear contract, ever. They are all downhill from here. Also, ESPN is for sale. Robert Iger, who knows a lot more about trends in the entertainment industry than anyone in this thread, wants out of ESPN. What should that tell us about the future of a linear based sports network? That ACC contract goes from being mediocre to pretty good for the ACC in the 2030’s. The corollary is also true for ESPN. The contract is pretty good for ESPN right now, but it gets worse every year as people continue to cut the cord. Take a network that is for sale and a tv contract that keeps getting worse for ESPN, and you have a very strong incentive for whoever the next owner of ESPN is to try to get out of or renegotiate the ACC agreement for 2027. ESPN has a well documented track record of blowing up a league (Big East, PAC 12) when it is in ESPN’s interest to do so. It appears that FSU is the first ACC school to face that reality and try to do something about it, and it certainly won’t be the last. [/QUOTE]