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Message: [QUOTE="atom58, post: 2094302, member: 5312"] Right - in the short term - the run up to the 2019 TV channel, I have understood that this is the "bump" from the "channel clause" - at least $45 million per year for every year the TV channel does not exist, which is $3M per school. It was very smart that the ACC put that clause into the contract back in 2012 or so - has to be one factor for ESPN (to avoid paying "money for nothing") but I think the main factor is keeping the ACC together and "even with Steven" in the conference arms race. The Pac 12 as that link indicated is likely to be with the Big 12 in the bottom 2 and behind the ACC per this quote: [I]Another player will enter the competition in a couple of years. The Atlantic Coast Conference, in conjunction with ESPN, will launch its network in 2019. One industry insider thinks that deal “will blow the Pac-12 away.”[/I] [/QUOTE]