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[QUOTE="whaler11, post: 1761490, member: 676"]
Unlike so many here I will admit when I am wrong.  I didn't think there would ever be an ACC cable network.  Will be interesting to see how that turns out because the marketplace doesn't want it and I think you are right it could end up being an expensive outcome for them.

No kidding ESPN wrote terrible contracts for the ACC and Big 12.   Of course they don't want to spend more for properties they already own.   I think ESPN is insane for extending these deals like the ACC as far as they are into the future.

It doesn't matter why the networks are upset - it just matters that they might have all the leverage in the future and that could end up harming the Big 12 in the future.   Remember when the Big 12 was losing larger programs and adding a TCU and WVU - the networks didn't cut their deals back.  It was a windfall to divide by 10 instead of 12.     So they do have some pretty strong evidence where they partnered with the Big 12 and not just the ACC.
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