Please walk me through the ACC dropping their GOR. A move that may benefit three or four members while damaging at least eight to ten members does not seem likely.
I could see it happening under structured as a win win for all parties. Especially if the schools that want out keep pounding the table whenever they can and if (big if) some sort of off ramp appears for those left behind. To me that off ramp is the p12/ACC merger. But that merger would likely need some of the current schools in each conf to leave to slim it down some. I could see this happening at the end of the decade when the B1G is ready to digest some new schools and perhaps Disney or some new streamer is ready to let the SEC expand again.
My thinking (full disclosure, I am totally uninformed and a total UCONN fanboy) is the B12 wants UCONN as the first choice in conference addition, with one PAC school, either Colorado or AZ. My rational is location and hoops. The B12 wants to bolster their #1 hoops conference status; no school does that better than UCONN. The B12 also wants to be a national conference with eyeballs in big markets; no school does that better than UCONN.
Well the end of the decade is a long way off and the off ramp would need to be an improvement in some manner (perhaps more revenue or exposure for the better schools of the left behinds, more long term security for the remaining left behinds) for there to be a sufficient number of votes.
Great summary. With the internet, Zoom, social media, and transfer portal, recruiting is no longer limited to a region or an area. Sure, coaches that can see kids in person still have advantages, but it certainly won't limit UConn from recruiting Texas and CA going forward. Our coaches just need to establish recruiting pipelines all over the country.
Well said. We can't wait for the ACC to implode. We have to decide our own path today if there is an opportunity.
I don't think the ACC will break up, but the conference is being short sighted. The ACC has schools wanting to leave and some that probably could leave if they were able to. Given that, what is the LT plan for the ACC? Is the strategy hope that college athletics changes before the GOR expires so that the ACC survives as is? Right now, there is potential to join 3 conferences: SEC, Big 10, and Big 12. All of those conferences would result in a higher or equal payout for the schools that left. My guess is that there are enough opportunities for the majority of the ACC schools, but some would be left out.
Exactly, in the last few weeks we brought in fb recruits from TX, TN, etc. Basketball brings in players from coast to coast. It's no longer a scenario of limiting the recruiting footprint but rather creating relationships and a great environment for young athletes to develop.
Technically the GOR is an agreement between each member school and the ACC. Once the ACC has the GOR from the schools, it's agreement with ESPN to broadcast ACC games is worth more money because ESPN gets the right to Clemson home games even if Clemson leaves the conference.
There is no way the conference can unilaterally rescind a contract with their media partner. Whatever the conference licensed to the media partner is premised on the conference having been granted the rights by each school to exclusively license their rights in a conference pool of team rights. Except for certain rights reserved by schools (I.e., say branded merchandising) in the initial grants to the conference, each school is stuck. They can breach their agreement with the media partner, it good luck with that. Their best option is to negotiate an increase with an extension, but I can’t see any schools poised to bolt agreeing to that.
If a moderator could kindly change this typo I would be very grateful.
If you ask him he'll probably say yes.
That guy works for the PFL
