The Official UMD Exit Fee Thread

[B1GEast]

I'd be surprised if MD ends up pay significantly more than 20M, and could end up paying less.

Whatever the fee ends up being, the big 10 will subsidize part of it, MD will be making 30+ million per year so they'll be on their way to solid financial ground.

 

[CL82]

Our president is expecting Swoffy to enforce it to the penny (just over 52M).

Then again, if it's found to be unenforcable, I'll be waiting for the first rights-grant team to litigate granting TV rights as unenforcable too.

I think that GORs have a better chance, for what that is worth.

I think the ACC hurt itself by finding a replacement so quickly after the MD departure. The fact that teams were lining up for admission hurts as well. In the end, the big number plus no actual damages will mean that the ACC will settle for a 'nominal' number. That said they have zero incentive to do so in the near term. Every day of delay buys another day before the next raid on the ACC.