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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4737717, member: 833"]
The ACC, like all the P4's, is missing a fundamental understanding of the product they are selling.  They think they are selling the top programs, because that is kind of what happened during the last 15 years or so during the peak of the cable bundle era.  What they are actually selling is the games.  They are selling matchups that fans care about took decades to develop, and a few years to tear apart.  Fans are not going to care much about a lot of the games in the new ACC schedule.  They don't know the schools and have no history with them.

College sports is one of the most unusual entertainment options anywhere in the world, and it developed in a large part because fans cared about their own schools, but they also cared about the schools they were playing.  Who in the ACC cares about SMU?  Who are Virginia Tech fans going to feel about less games against the North Carolina schools, and more games against California schools.

I think fan interest in the former Pac 12 schools is going to fall off a cliff.  These were schools that always had trouble attracting fans, even when they were good, and now they have schedules littered with Clemson and Iowa and Cincinnati.  People in the West play sports, but they don't necessarily watch sports.
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