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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5055515, member: 3850"] Pretty much... Issues that matter.... 1..Whether the Commisioner could unilaterally offer an extension to the time that the contract states that ESPN has to exercise the extension past 2027. ....My view....That when the option expired, 2021, the media contract ends in 2027. Period. Full Stop. 2...That the ACC, through the GOR, is only granted the media rights as necessary to meet the requirements of the ESPN contract. The ESPN contract...not any future ESPN contract. ...My view...It stands to reason that the then GOR also ends in 2027...even though it states 2036. This is my starting point. The option that was signed by ESPN and Phillips later that year can not be an extension of the expired option....it's a new option. The only way now to extend the contract after Feb 2021 is to amend the media contract and grant another option. That move required a vote by Members and a new GOR. Basically, I am thinking that when the option was not exercised in 2021, the media contract clearly ends in 2027 and the GOR, by its language, has to align with that expiration date. And changing any of that requires a vote. Phillips is basically treating the 2016 GOR - with the ending date in 2036 - as a document that controls how the media contract is to be interpreted. Basically, he is having the tail (GOR) wag the dog (the media contract) that the GOR is created to serve. [/QUOTE]