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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3927641, member: 1145"] [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/how-a-big-ten-acc-pac-12-alliance-combats-sec-in-tv-rights-negotiations-college-football-playoff-expansion/']Dennis Dodd on this talk of scheduling alliance.[/URL] Dodd has hated the ACC for many years, back into the last century. He's an old time Big 8 guy, and he will never get over the fact that the Big 8 had to dissolve for the brand new charted league the Big XII to be born, while the ACC survived. So I find this article interesting. It seems he accepts that if we have 4 Major/Power conferences, the ACC will be one of them. And now that the SEC has killed the Big XII, Dodd realizes that hating and resenting the ACC has been very stupid of him. Now, if the SEC is to be contained, the Big Ten that Dodd has worshipfully admired [I]requires [/I]the help of the ACC. That is an essential point. A BT-Pac alliance can effect next to nothing vis a vis SEC football strength and ability to dominate playoffs. Part of the South must be involved, and that means the ACC. Very interesting paragraph: "In the TV media rights game, networks are basically paying for Ohio State-Michigan in the Big Ten, a couple of Duke-North Carolina basketball games in the ACC and USC-UCLA in the Pac-12. Everything else is extra baggage. With a four-conference consolidation, the best games would be wrapped in a tighter package." One thing that Dodd knows that very few other sportswriters either know or will acknowledge is that UNC-Dook is the only basketball rivalry that corresponds roughly with the biggest football rivalries. And if the surviving Major/Power conferences do move to secede from the NCAA Tournament, or else remake it so that they earn much more from it (as they deserve), then the largest hoops programs will see their values grow to TV networks. That is a key reason that ESPN cannot afford to piss off the ACC. Jim Phillips must be negotiating deftly with both the BT and ESPN. ACC football needs even more OOC games vs. Brand Name programs. The SEC teams all have long histories of asserting that because the SEC is so much tougher than any other league, SEC teams don't need to play any OOC gams to prove anything to anybody. If ESPN cannot deliver Texas, OU, A&M, LSU, Bama, Auburn, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss versus ACC teams, then the ACC needs to work to get series with Rose Bowl Brand Names: Ohio St, Michigan, Mich St, Penn St, Wisconsin, Nebraska, SC, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, Washington. A UNC-Michigan Home-Away means 1 game on Fox. A UNC-Texas Home Away means both games on ESPN/ABC. The ACC goal, in order to increase TV viewers, should be for each team to play 2 OOC games per season versus a P4 team. We are more likely to reach that goal in alliance with the BT and Pac than by allowing ESPN to try to ask the SEC to help. [/QUOTE]

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