The GOR was required by ESPN to finalize a TV deal with the ACC because the GOR makes it almost financially impossible to leave without paying TV rights to the ACC. ESPN needs to have a strong ACC conference, or football brand, to sell ads, etc. If the ACC is a dumpster fire after all of this conference raiding, it hurts ESPN because it would then have a hard time selling ads, etc. to pay for the terms of the TV deal.
So what are some options?
1. With the help of the SEC and ESPN, the ACC dissolves with the ACC’s top brands going to the SEC, which would allow the lesser brands to go to another conference without being penalized. With no ACC there is no conference to pay that TV money to. (Not likely)
2. Teams get poached from the ACC, and those teams lose their ACC TV money. But the new conference doesn’t give the new ACC school any “TV revenue” that would be required to go to the ACC. Instead, the conference comes up with a way to give the new school a “loan” or some other financial consideration that would float that school with a backend payout coming once the GOR expires. You can try and come up with a way that the new schools wouldn’t be eligible for the TV money, but could instead be paid for their brand. This amount could be very similar to the tv money they would be getting. Basically, come up with a way to pay those schools without the tv money deal.
3. We do nothing and become irrelevant in college football.
I think something happens sooner rather than later and that it happens with the SEC because of ESPN. Just my 2 cents.
So what are some options?
1. With the help of the SEC and ESPN, the ACC dissolves with the ACC’s top brands going to the SEC, which would allow the lesser brands to go to another conference without being penalized. With no ACC there is no conference to pay that TV money to. (Not likely)
2. Teams get poached from the ACC, and those teams lose their ACC TV money. But the new conference doesn’t give the new ACC school any “TV revenue” that would be required to go to the ACC. Instead, the conference comes up with a way to give the new school a “loan” or some other financial consideration that would float that school with a backend payout coming once the GOR expires. You can try and come up with a way that the new schools wouldn’t be eligible for the TV money, but could instead be paid for their brand. This amount could be very similar to the tv money they would be getting. Basically, come up with a way to pay those schools without the tv money deal.
3. We do nothing and become irrelevant in college football.
I think something happens sooner rather than later and that it happens with the SEC because of ESPN. Just my 2 cents.
