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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 283370, member: 622"]
Thoughts on the deal:
 
1) $17 mil may be accurate or not.  No official word on $$$.
2) 15 years is TOO LONG!
3) ACC loses as ESPN owns rights to every sport and all tiers.
4) 5 year interval to review the contract is good for ACC
5) FSU probably using the Big 12 for building influence against the Carolina four.  Hard to see them playing Iowa State and presenting that as a good game to their fans.  FSU fans not likely to travel there.  Academics and Texas influence should be enough to scare of any sane person (read University president/board)
6) FSU could jump to SEC for the right money.  Academics are weak, but with TAMU, Mizzou, Vandy and UF, there are some academically inclined schools.
7) Clemson does not have enough influence to join either the Big 12 or the SEC by themselves and certainly not enough to take anyone with them.  They would be 2nd to FSU.
8) Swofford indicated that the ACC would open discussions next year, post Big East negotiations and would get more.  The retained experts agreed.  This deal happened too quick and is likely another Swofford mess up.
9) Expect the SEC to become the highest paid conference again.
10) Being joined at the hip with ESPN is good now, but two years before re-negotiating rights, ESPN will downplay ACC as they did the Big East.  Future deals should include at least two broadcast partners.
11) Still better than the Big East deal and probably more than what they will garner now.  Not sure it is better than what the Big East would have gotten had nobody (Syracuse, Pitt, WVU, TCU) left.
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