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Amazing how much the ACC tried to hide the fact that the biggest delay for launching the ACC network was the demand made by Swofford that in the prior ACC contract with ESPN, ESPN was required to sub license all the tier 3 rights to Raycom. As a reminder, it took the SEC a full year to buy back its tier 3 rights from a bunch of regional networks when it decided to invest in its SEC network. That was challenging but they were able to get it done. But the ACC couldn’t do that because Raycom didn’t want to give it up, as it was the bulk of their decent inventory.
There is no reason to share tier 3 inventory equally as the ratings are truly based on the ratings of each team. For example, although Texas gets $15M or so from the LHN, OU gets about $6-7M each year that it keeps from its own tier 3 revenue. Each member of the B12 has that right, but the revenue they receive is based on its own results.
Getting the ACC network is only one step. I assume that the revenue from the single linear channel will be shared equally - but will about the new digital platform.
I caution the new AD to look deeply into this of the inequality of revenue sharing. Because if he or she doesn’t, it will become embarrassing when those on this board disclose it for them in the social media. It gets harder and harder to keep secrets these days.
If we went independent, we would make less money on an overall basis. The issue with the ACC is not that it's a bad conference, it just refuses to maximize its football revenue because of the stupid divisions - and it refuses to give up total equality with revenue sharing - including the bowl payouts. It also suffered geographically (loss of MD) when Swofford mismanaged the ND contract. Not because it was bad for the ACC as many people on this board believe - but because it was too good for the ACC. We play ND twice as much as any member in the Coastal other than Miami. Who wants to give that up? It caused the Big Ten to freak out. They thought the ACC scored a big win so they stole Maryland to basically hurt the ACC. And it has. Maryland was the critical charter member that links the old ACC to the new northern members. That northern expansion is not working out well, but it would have been better with Maryland.
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