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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4889415, member: 3850"] I think that ESPN own the leased rights and those support its business proposition of paying the ACC as it pays it. There is no provision for ESPN to pay an individual school anywhere, or to pay anything other than what is in the ESPN contract for it to pay the ACC. Money is paid by the ACC to its members. There are three agreements to consider..... the ACC bylaws, the GOR, and the ESPN contract. The ACC bylaws provide a path for exit by paying the 3x the annual operating cost fee and indicates no further entanglement with the league. To have a broadcast relationship, it takes the other two agreements to make it work. The GOR which bundled all the schools' media rights under the ACC for the purpose of monetizing member home games via the ESPN contract. The ESPN contract that pays an agreed amount of money to the ACC for broadcasting home games. The Bylaws allow a school to leave but the ACC still has the assigned rights for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the ACC-ESPN Agreement...If ESPN releases the conference's requirement to have X team's games broadcast in order to fulfill the ESPN Agreement, the GOR has no effect. [/QUOTE]