Speculation is that if there is a traditional ACC network (there will be one of some form, just don't know if it's a traditional type), that they would share a lot of the same facilities the SECN is using in Charlotte so there would be a lot of shared cost.
Second, I don't know why people keep thinking a potential ACC Network means that ESPN has to shell out money like it's a right's fee. It would be totally different. It would be a totally different partnership where it would create it's own revenue and generate it's own expenses. It is completely different and separate from the rights fees the BIG just got paid. I don't know why people don't get that.
If it would lose money, they won't go forward. If they feel it would make money, it will go forward. But it is not a rights fee negotiation or where ESPN is paying additional money on top of what they already do.
