If by “same ballpark” you mean somewhere between $5-10M per school, per year, for sure. The ACC distributed around $32M in media revenue per school in 2022-23, and its grown at a rate of between 5-10% per year since the ACCN launched.
Some selection (not in order) of Arizona State, Colorado, Utah and UConn are my preference, whether it’s a pure addition or whether it’s backfill if 1-2 schools manage to get out closer to the end of the decade.
Big xii distribution is going to grow year to year as well, and the big jumps for the accn growth will slow as those bigger jumps were due to gaining more distribution.
That’s what I was thinking. Those first three would make for great road trips.
There was talk about an eastern independents creating a conference with most of the teams you mentioned. What happened was at that time Pitt and PSU were the only teams consistently winning and going to bowl games. Of course Paterno wanted a bigger bowl money split. But behind everyone’s back Paterno was negotiating with the Big 10. So the story goes.
Might be saying the same thing, but Raycom had that package before the ESPN deal started. They signed a renewal with Raycom for a really good price for Raycom, and then basically made ESPN honor it. Whether the Raycom games get 500,000 viewers or 3M, the price Raycom pays to the ACC is locked in. Raycom produces the games and distributes them how they want to, which currently is on the CW.
I have read a couple of articles that Florida and S Carolina don’t want the competition from FSU and Clemson and the fact that in Florida the majority of people are gator fans even in Miami. This whole projection of the future of college sports is so convoluted you can’t figure out what is going to happen tomorrow. So enjoy the ride for now.
I got it! Instead of paying into a NIL fund, the alumni should band together and fund a rocket through SpaceX that will strategically crash into the 2032 asteroid splitting it in 2 and crashing into State College and Columbus. It will take 4 years to recover and by that time the ACC contract will expire. We can then build the new Pitt Stadium in State College and shuttle the students there on the hyperloop.Well, there is an asteroid arriving in 2032…
It’s really the last “big” piece of inventory that the ACC has until 2036 aside from juicing the ACC Network. But everything’s so hidden that it’s unclear whether ESPN has a right of first refusal for it, or if it was a part of these recent option negotiations, or whether the ACC can take to the open market. It’s still far enough off that people haven’t really started to ask about it.
USC as well. Many thought when USC joined the Big Ten in 2022 that ND would try to follow.
The screwed up part is to the fan/consumer, thats a selling point. But for TV executives and in the optimization model, it’s a negative.
If it's your region it's heading for, you might want to have a bit of warning. Regrettably, since all of the agencies tracking these things are currently being gutted, you will just need to keep your eye on the sky.
Pitt to the SEC is probably more likely than Pitt to the Big 10. That could come from the Big 10 going south, and the SEC responding in kind by going North. Also, and I have said this many times over the last 8 years or so, Pitt's football reputation is much better in the South than it is in the North.
That conference would have ruled the 80's and 90's no doubt..... and probably would have continued doing so from then on.
