Calling a spade a spade, the ACC hasn't added a team worth "$22 million plus a million or two for the other 15 members" yet. Not Syracuse, not UL, not Pitt and certainly not some fractionated portion of the Notre Dame athletic program.
If you think they have, you're either drunk, stupid, bad at math or a passive-aggressive from Virginia.
We've seen the ESPN/Big East money redistributed and the ACC doesn't have a network of it's own - there is zero incentive for ESPN to pay more for UConn sports when it already has those rights for a screaming bargain price.
Well, I haven't had that much to drink and I am not from Virginia, so that sort of narrows it down a bit, doesn't it........?????
I may be stupid and bad at math, sure. But, these articles indicate that ND paid for its own basketball money and added additional money per team to the ACC. Oh, and they were receiving $15 million a year from NBC (that was prior to the new 10 year extension of that contract).
"Tangible proof
The Irish influence already has been tangible. The ACC’s television deal with ESPN was expected to net each member $17 million each year.
Once Notre Dame committed, a renegotiation bumped that projection up to $20 million."
http://www.southbendtribune.com/spo...cle_760f4d4a-e136-11e2-903e-0019bb30f31a.html
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Notre Dame football might be a part-time lover in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but the league still gets a nice pay bump from the Irish's presence.
The ACC expects Notre Dame's full membership in all sports but football and hockey -- with five guaranteed football games per year -- to earn each school more than $1 million per year in media rights revenue, according to two league sources.
This will bump the ACC's per-school annual television revenue into the $18-plus-million range. In 2012, the ACC renegotiated a deal with ESPN for $3.6 billion over 15 years (or $17.1 million per school on average) for a 14-team football league."
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ue----more-than-1-million-per-school-annually
"Last year, after the additions of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, the ACC restructured its TV contract with ESPN to a reported 15-year, $3.6 billion agreement. Each school was set to make an average of about $17.1 million per year over the length of the contract.
When the ACC added Notre Dame as a member in all sports except football and ice hockey, the conference re-negotiated its TV contract, and
schools are now reportedly earning an average of more than $20 million per year through 2026-2027, when the deal with ESPN expires."
http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2013/06/with_projected_revenue_increas.html