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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4831768, member: 833"] If ESPN doesn't exercise its option for 2027, and I don't think they will, then the GOR will effectively be over. The fact that the ACC leadership won't let member schools have a copy of the agreements is insane, and a huge red flag about those agreements. It is a safe bet that there are one or more problems in them for the ACC. I think Iger and Disney gets something to happen with ESPN in the first half of the year, and I think Private Equity may step into the breach. They have mountains of money, and ESPN is still cash rich. The big PE firms' return hurdles are pretty low, and they can get a lot of money to work on a high profile deal that will not faceplant on them if managed correctly. It won't be much fun for the content providers if that happens because PE will do everything it can to drive down costs. If college programs thought ESPN was tough to deal with before, they have not seen anything yet. [/QUOTE]