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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5051129, member: 3850"] Lots of comments about the belief that since ESPN did not exercise its option to extend the ACC TV contract to 2036, then the contract ends in 2027. Period. The concern goes that if this is so obvious, why hasn’t anyone influential to ending this debate come forward? The answer lies in the documentation, or lack of it. FSU first announced that there was this ESPN “opt out” in a BOT meeting held several months before it filed the first suit in December. And they noted that it was extended after it expired and without a member vote. But FSU only read those documents without being allowed to take notes and while being proctored and weren’t sure they read everything. The ESPN Agreement was unavailable to review except in a heavily redacted form. Several hundred pages to eyeball only. They needed all the documentation to make the legal case. They needed the TV contract(s) in their hands. The ACC has kept documents unavailable..has instead, told members what the deals were...Clemson has filed in court that the conference, with malice, misrepresented the GOR and the ESPN Agreement...and acted outside of the bylaws. Phillips just stated that he is negotiating with ESPN...If ESPN is already negotiating ”something” with the ACC, it is likely that Phillips knows that ESPN is not going to extend the contract. ESPN probably doesn’t see the necessity of making a public announcement. Even if ESPN decides to extend the current contract, FSU and CU will then sue that the extension is invalid for all the reasons noted in former posts. ESPN will have no certainty that FSU and CU will be in the conference in the near future. It will be glacierly slow if it goes through the courts with appeals, etc. But we will soon know with more clarity the contract details. "Now, in response to Attorney General Moody’s action, the ACC has notified the state of Florida that the following documents will be produced in accordance with the Florida Public Records Act: (due by August 1, 2024) ..2010 ACC Multi Media Agreement ..2012 Amendment and Exten sion Agreement ..2014 Second Amendment to Multi Media Agreement ..2016 Amended and Restated ACC ESPN Multi Media Agreement ..ACC- ESPN Network Agreement (2016) ..[B]Letter [B]Amendment [B]to [B]Amended [B]and [B]Restated [B]Multi [B]Media [B]Agreement ([B]Aug. [B]10, [B]2021)[/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B] [/QUOTE]

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