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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4341393, member: 71"] 0 A lot of people are missing the point on what a grant of rights is. For the next fifteen years the ACC has the broadcast rights to all games that would belong to each individual member. If for example Clemson were to leave the conference without negotiating a buyout from the GOR, any game they play that would qualify as "Clemson's" would belong to the ACC. I don't know the language in the GOR but I am completely confident that the term is clearly and thoroughly described within the agreement and includes overlapping with other conference members. An example (which I imagine is how this was written) would be all non-conference road games and all conference games in all sports. Yes, this is not indentured servitude so there would be a way out but that would be a negotiated dollar amount that, considering the value of the GOR and the remaining term, would be massive. The $125 million (not including exit fees) thrown around for ND may be a bit conservative and if the football contract is half of the total contract (not out of the realm of possibility), you're looking at a quarter billion to buyout of the GOR. Logically present value of future cash flows (15 years, starting at $38 million per) discounted at whatever rate would make sense for the industry would provide value of the GOR per school. A quarter billion dollars (as the result of the above calculations) would be easily reached. The buyout will be prohibitive, which was exactly the goal. [/QUOTE]

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