Oh hog wash. They are not worth $67 million to the Big. And the Big doesn’t need 2 more mid-level football teams. And the days of the cable bundles are fast dwindling. And both share the markets with others. UNC with Duke, NC State, UVA with VATECH. And is in a pro market anyway. If the big money was cable fees, the ACC would be wealthy.
UNC is at that top of their list if they expand which they don’t plan to do and if the prioritize basketball which they won’t and if every team is willing to take a pay cut to add them which they won’t. Sort of like being 12th in line for the British throne I guess. Better than being 13th.Paul Finebaum: North Carolina is at the top of SEC's priority list if it further expands
The SEC doesn’t seem at all interested in any further expansion with the league now at 16 teams. Even so, if they were, Paul Finebaum knows the school that would be their next prime candidate in realignment.
Still, if the SEC were to add a new member, Finebaum says what he has heard is that the obvious pick would be North Carolina. The only question would be if the Tar Heels would join on their own or if at least one more team came along with them to make it an even number at 18.
“It’s North Carolina at the top,” Finebaum stated. “I think, after that, it’s a little bit unknown. There’s a million different theories. Would North Carolina take someone with them? Or would they just sit around?”
“The one thing I feel pretty confident of, though, is that, if something happens in the next couple weeks, it won’t be Florida State going to the SEC. I mean it just seems like they have shot themselves in the foot on that,” explained Finebaum. “I don’t think Clemson is in as bad of shape but they are now lumped with Florida State.”
Never hurts to ask. Football should be included. Great rilvalry with Vandy in football. Kentucky Alabama Arkansas Florida and Texas in basketball. Lots of eyes in the northeast would watch with great marketing.
It would make more sense if the SEC also took UVA and UNC as well as maybe Duke.
You can’t Force people to stay. It’s money.
Could be a SNL skit to rival Zillowporn
In North Carolina, you have 4 ACC schools so the ACCN fees are from 4 schools. Imagine if the ACCN fees were from one school?
The truth is that a bunch of this is survival, smoke and mirrors stuff from the Big12 who just lost 2 behemoth football powers they will never replace both in interest/history and value. Yormark is building from a place of devastation, credit to him.
Does the ACC actually own the ACCN? If not, why would they care about whether That Work gets in market fees?
That’s a huge if
I think it comes to possibility versus probability. It is possible that the B12 challenges the P2...yeah. Is it probable that the B12 can challenge the P2, likely no. The realignment and money movement would be from B12 to P2, not the other way around. So yes, the B12 may be getting stronger if they can add some ACC teams, but dynamically the P2 are so far ahead as to make competition with them moot.
It is a joint revenue share. The ACCN probably brings in $10 million per year for each ACC school and it has been growing over time. With the addition of SMU/Cal/Stanford, the ACCN revenues will take a step up and with SMU/Cal/Stanford taking reduced shares, the rest of the ACC schools will see a step up in revenues. The difference between an in-market ACCN cable subscriber and out-of-market subscriber is ~$1+/month. Of course, cord cutting will take a toll on subscribers in the future.
Not disagreeing with you about Texas vs Oklahoma but going forward, I think things will be different, perhaps very different. I don't think it's smoke & mirrors at all.
Texas vs Oklahoma will continue to be a big rivalry game. One of the biggest in the country. And these games will be much watch TV - Texas vs Alabama, Texas vs LSU and Texas vs GA. I know I will watch those games.
