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goldendomer said:
I get it through Xfinity for free and I agree IT IS AWFUL. Freezes, drops and lagging are constant.
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I had a little of that early on but now it works fine for me. I have FIOS Gigabyte so there is plenty of capacity if the apps is a resource hog.

I'm not a huge fan of the content though.
 
CL82 said:
I had a little of that early on but now it works fine for me. I have FIOS Gigabyte so there is plenty of capacity if the apps is a resource hog.

I'm not a huge fan of the content though.
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Apparently this post was a streaming app mojo violation as last night it was a little glitchy. It doesn’t seem to be problematic if you are watching movie that don’t have commercials. About 50% of the time coming back from a commercial you need to stop and resume to get it back to you normal play.
 
Peacock for live sports is horrendous, it's marginally adequate for replays/other types of content.
 
Just saw this nugget from the BCU corner on how to make ACC the super ACC. They have visions to get ND to join, poach PSU from B1G, and/or get USC/UCLA to join etc. I guess there is no limit to imagination.

www.si.com

Envisioning an Idealized ACC After Realignment and Expansion

The ACC needs to keep up with the SEC and Big Ten, here are five steps that new commissioner Jim Phillips can take to accomplish that.
www.si.com www.si.com
 
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WestCoastHusky said:
Just saw this nugget from the BCU corner on how to make ACC the super ACC. They have visions to get ND to join, poach PSU from B1G, and/or get USC/UCLA to join etc. I guess there is no limit to imagination.

www.si.com

Envisioning an Idealized ACC After Realignment and Expansion

The ACC needs to keep up with the SEC and Big Ten, here are five steps that new commissioner Jim Phillips can take to accomplish that.
www.si.com www.si.com
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The ACC isn’t the SEC and they aren’t going to keep up. The ACC has Clemson as a top tier football school and that’s it. FSU is a step down and everyone after that are several steps below and are Just average D1 football teams.
 
CTBballfan243 said:
The ACC isn’t the SEC and they aren’t going to keep up. The ACC has Clemson as a top tier football school and that’s it. FSU is a step down and everyone after that are several steps below and are Just average D1 football teams.
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Which is why it is ridiculous these schools are getting paid way more than schools like UCONN or Cincy. Part of this realignment again is to get rid of these schools that been riding on the back of bigger schools. The writing is on the wall since what just happened to the B12 is a foreshadow of what's coming at the ACC. We all are monitoring the PAC12 since it could be next if the new commissioner can't pull something huge out of his butt to save the conference. It is funny listening to guys like Washington State president talking to the media like that school got a say in what's going to happen next.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Just saw this nugget from the BCU corner on how to make ACC the super ACC. They have visions to get ND to join, poach PSU from B1G, and/or get USC/UCLA to join etc. I guess there is no limit to imagination.

www.si.com

Envisioning an Idealized ACC After Realignment and Expansion

The ACC needs to keep up with the SEC and Big Ten, here are five steps that new commissioner Jim Phillips can take to accomplish that.
www.si.com www.si.com
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Once again no mention of UConn anywhere. One way he left out to make a super ACC would be to throw out BC!
 
buddy said:
Once again no mention of UConn anywhere. One way he left out to make a super ACC would be to throw out BC!
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It would be the best for the ACC and poetic justice if they toss BCU out of that conference. What has that school brought to the ACC exactly? Boston market? Please make us laugh.

In this new streaming world, BCU is about as valuable as Tulane.
 
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If the ACC is going to get an increase by 15 million per school by signing up Comcast, they don’t really need to do anything. I think it is inevitable that ND joins and makes the ACC TV contract equal to the SEC.

I don’t see 1-3 teams leaving the PAC 12 for the B1G due to the travel, especially for their non revenue sports. Michigan and tOSU are not joining the SEC either for the same reasons. Texas & OU actually fit the footprint of the SEC.

It’s going to be very difficult for the SEC and the B1G to expand due to the current revenue each team receives.
 
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Wow Ohio State, Texas, and Alabama all over a billion dollars. Look at that drop off in the B1G. You get to the third most valuable brand, Penn State, and it's worth half of Ohio State.
 
I don't know the value of added distribution for the ACC...but there will be some. Maybe more for access than actual monetary increase. Mediacom just signed up and Comcast is in the batter's box.

"A lot of the carriers and providers, including Comcast, have renewals coming up this late summer and into the fall. I think we're making tremendous progress with them," Phillips said.

"Those frustrations are real. We'll never be the conference that we need to be until we get some of those issues taken care of. I think we have a great strategy. It's been top of point every conversation we've had with our TV partners. They understand it. They get it. So we're hopeful to make a big dent in the distribution piece coming up."

I still think that the ACC may work it out where it is feasible to take on a couple of programs...from a mix of WVU, UCF, Cincinnati, etc.

Ultimately. too little, too late,Phillips is attempting to get the ACC to think like a football conference. Swofford straddled the fence with a lot of his schools being more interested in basketball. The ACC has very good basketball, and very good non revenue sports...but they don't bring in the money.
 
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The thing is none of those suggested adds (except maybe Cincinnati adds some new Ohio based carriage outside of overlaps with the Pittsburgh DMA) adds a new market or a significant enough attraction to really do anything to the rights agreement, other than add potential streaming inventory. They're teams whose relative market value is in the $7-$14M range currently (and that accepts the Big XII commissioner's valuation as accurate).

Right's deals have grown enough that outside of the tippity top teams, no P5 league has anywhere to turn to increase their payouts or even to keep everyone whole while increasing inventory. Of those teams Notre Dame is the only (relatively speaking) free agent. That's why there's so much smoke on USC to the Big Ten, but even then once you have to get into their tagalongs it starts to dilute the value.
 
"Carriage", "DMA"...old speak. The paradigm has shifted.

Now it is creating an inventory of games that people nationally will tune into.
 
billybud said:
"Carriage", "DMA"...old speak. The paradigm has shifted.

Now it is creating an inventory of games that people nationally will tune into.
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Yeah but what does that mean? Suddenly Cin WVU or UCf are national programs? They are regional..... I have no more interest in watching a game involving them then I do wake forest.
 
mike012779 said:
Yeah but what does that mean? Suddenly Cin WVU or UCf are national programs? They are regional..... I have no more interest in watching a game involving them then I do wake forest.
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I have no interest in watching most teams north of Virginia...

But...WVU-Pitt...WVU-VT have been big rivalry games...WVU-Louisville would also be good.

UCF can build rivalries with Miami and FSU...in state rivalries add juice...and Florida is a football state.

I could see the day where the FSU-Florida rivalry is discontinued with the SEC maybe playing more in conference games in pods.
 
There are P5 teams that make for so-so match ups...Wake, Northwestern, Duke, Indiana, Kansas, etc.

Wake Forest does have a winning record over Tulsa, UConn, Memphis, and Navy from the American....Oregon, Stanford, and Arizona State from the Pac....Georgia, Ole Miss, A&M from the SEC...and Rutgers...and a .500 record with Northwestern and Indiana.
 
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