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Rufus said:
Even if it costs $200 million for Notre Dame to make a clean break from the ACC, that is less than two years worth of B1G media rights revenue. Not counting playoff revenue, bowl revenue, basketball tournament revenue, etc.

Plus, the media rights revenue will only increase with ND as a member of the B1G, which in turn makes it easier to pay that off.
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For sure, it would be worth it. It would be the largest exit fee in history though. I assume we may get assistance if that occurred.
 
TerryD said:
There is also the five football games a year deal and the "ND football can only join the ACC " deal.

Both run through 2036. If ND breaches those deals, that would mean additional damages paid to the ACC.
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The five football games are expressly out of conference games according to the Notre Dame section of the contract. Would the ACC even have standing to pursue that? I guess the individual schools could.

I’ve posted this before but I have trouble with the damages for the whole “we’re not promising to join the league, but if we do you’ll be your league” thing. Notre Dame has every right not to join the ACC. So what are the damages if they join someone else? I don’t know.

But the bottom line is, it’s a lot of money, but probably not enough to make moving to the big 10 economically unfeasible.
 
goldendomer said:
For sure, it would be worth it. It would be the largest exit fee in history though. I assume we may get assistance if that occurred.
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They probably give you the “Rutgers“ deal where they would front some of your anticipated earnings. For a school as deep pocketed as Notre Dame, I’m not sure that makes sense though.
 
CL82 said:
They probably give you the “Rutgers“ deal where they would front some of your anticipated earnings. For a school as deep pocketed as Notre Dame, I’m not sure that makes sense though.
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The “Rutgers” deal was a buyin to the BTN. Since each school has an ownership stake in the company (at that time ~50%), the smaller yearly payout was was the buy in for each school.
 
USC and UCLA don’t have to buy-in. Notre Dame wouldn’t either. And I’m sure if they asked, the Big 10 would “loan“ them interest-free the money to buy out the ACC contract, and then forgive the loan a decade or so later.
 
JeepCSC said:
SWW we s are
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Absolutely! Those 3 schools add/would add so much to the Big10 in both visibility and brands. If ND wanted to leave, the Big10 would most assuredly assist.
 
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JeepCSC said:
USC and UCLA don’t have to buy-in. Notre Dame wouldn’t either. And I’m sure if they asked, the Big 10 would “loan“ them interest-free the money to buy out the ACC contract, and then forgive the loan a decade or so later.
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Agree to an extent (not sure of loan forgiveness).

If the Big Ten insisted that ND take a smaller payout for years AND entirely fund the $200 million plus ACC exit, I don't think that would be a winning pitch to secure ND into the Big Ten.
 
TerryD said:
Agree to an extent (not sure of loan forgiveness).

If the Big Ten insisted that ND take a smaller payout for years AND entirely fund the $200 million plus ACC exit, I don't think that would be a winning pitch to secure ND into the Big Ten.
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If they didn’t require USC or UCLA to buy in to the BTN, there’s no way that they will make ND pay.

The reduced payout was to buy into the BTN. Unlike ESPN owning the SEC channel outright, the Big10 owns about 40% while Fox owns the rest. The Big10 just sold 10% back to Gox.
 
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Seeing a lot of UConn mentions. Where there’s smoke there’s fire…
 
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Part of the reason USC and UCLA get full shares right away is that they join at the start of a new media rights contract. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers joined, the B1G was in the middle of existing contracts that did not pay out more money until the contract expired. The B1G deliberately did that because they knew they would make more in the long run going to the open market than extending an existing contract. When Nebraska joined, they were paid with the money the B1G earned from starting the B1G Championship Game.

The increase in the worth of the new media rights package with USC and UCLA more than covers the buy-in for each schools share of the BTN.
 
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CAtlantic said:
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Is this Flugar interviewing or someone else? If it’s Flugar, than that quite the coup. A member of the Conference Realignment Twitterati interviewing the AD and VP of Athletics at ND is something I would never have expected. I know Flugar is involved with the Minnesota 247 site, but he’s presenting this without that branding.
 
dayooper said:
Is this Flugar interviewing or someone else? If it’s Flugar, than that quite the coup. A member of the Conference Realignment Twitterati interviewing the AD and VP of Athletics at ND is something I would never have expected. I know Flugar is involved with the Minnesota 247 site, but he’s presenting this without that branding.
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Its not Flug or anyone on Twitter. It will be with ND related media. This is not unusual, except that usually nobody pays any attention to it.

Flug is vastly overselling this, which is no surprise. He is on record saying ND to the Big Ten is a done deal. He is all in with this prediction.
 
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goldendomer said:
Nothing will come if this. Jack has done these previously.
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TerryD said:
Its not Flug or anyone on Twitter. It will be with ND related media. This is not unusual, except that usually nobody pays any attention to it.

Flug is vastly overselling this, which is no surprise. He is on record saying ND to the Big Ten is a done deal. He is all in with this prediction.
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Thanks for the info.
 
TerryD said:
Its not Flug or anyone on Twitter. It will be with ND related media. This is not unusual, except that usually nobody pays any attention to it.

Flug is vastly overselling this, which is no surprise. He is on record saying ND to the Big Ten is a done deal. He is all in with this prediction.
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The real question is whether ESPN makes a power move and offers Notre Dame something closer to their desired amount for their home football games.
 
goldendomer said:
That turned out to be a giant wah-wah.
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What turned out to be a giant wag-wah? Mind you, I think Flugs is as reliable as a ‘75 Pinto. I’m just not sure what we are talking about.
 
CL82 said:
The real question is whether ESPN makes a power move and offers Notre Dame something closer to their desired amount for their home football games.
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You bring up an interesting point as ESPN could go after Notre Dame. And, if ESPN gets Notre Dame's media rights to home games, ESPN will be on ESPN/ABC almost every week with their ACC game commitments. Does Notre Dame want that?
 
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