Just looking at this from Syracuse's perspective, might as well negotiate the best exit deal with FSU, Clemson and any other school that wants out. Get back to the Big East and forget about football. Syracuse will not land on the top 2 conferences. No sense in spending $ fighting with schools that want out.
This all seems unnecessary. There’s a world where the conferences remain and football has its own association. I want to live in that world. Give me the original 8 ACC for all other sports.
Shoehorning every sport into the same conference framework as football is incredibly dumb. There's literally no need for it.
Clemson’s argument is that they were literally too stupid to understand why they were signing away their media rights such that they should be treated like a child
If following Trump the past few years has taught us anything, it’s that there are way too many lawyers who don’t understand anything about the law. And you might not realize you’ve hired one of those idiots to represent you until you find yourself in a terrible decade plus deal with the ACC.
Really happy for our miami posters. They're really just a few more defections away from being able to compete for a conference title
I don't understand most of this. I didn't go to law school. If I had gone to law school, I would have failed out. I'm lazy.
Long story short- Sometime in the next 2-5 years the ACC will let FSU and Clemson leave for some figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Nobody knows what that will look like because there has never been a challenge to a media Grant of Rights- the decision will ultimately impact a large swath of media agreements outside of the ACC. Until then there will be lots of lawyering and it won’t mean much to most of us. Once the dust begins to settle and a path gets laid, some other ACC teams might try and join them, but for now it’s just them.
Which is crazy, because for the life of me I can't understand why the Big Ten took Rutgers over Syracuse.
The model was quite different back then and focused on cable carriage fees and population centers were a larger piece of the pie than they are today. I think Rutgers made the conference money since they were added to today
No I get that, but I'd guess Syracuse still has more penetration in the NYC cable market than Rutgers.
Not really. State College and Syracuse are basically the same distance from NYC. Upstate New York is effectively an entirely different state. They wanted a school in the NYC metro.
It’s entirely based on the definition of “footprint” that Fox and the cable companies worked into their contract. Adding Rutgers got BTN added to basic cable in NYC homes and gave the network money for each of those homes.
They’re all based on Nielsen DMAs, which have been the currency of linear television negotiations for decades https://www.nielsen.com/dma-regions/
B1G Network is linear TV? I always thought Rutgers and Maryland were about the carriage fees from cable companies, getting in more households.
Can someone point me to Saban’s (or his wife’s) comments on this? Seems like this would be very important to somebody who has taken it upon himself to lobby about the health of collegiate athletics.
"Why are we doing this? Modern football players only care about vigorous enforcement of the ACC GOR." -- Miss Terry
Yes, it started as linear TV before streaming became a thing. And all those households you allude to are measured by Nielsen. Nielsen ratings - and their accompanying regionalized DMAs - have been the currency for how television has been bought and sold for decades. Luckily, the media world is slowly moving away from it.