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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 4671172, member: 622"] Fair assumption. Please show the numbers and make it work. How do the ACC teams leave and make this happen? ACC exit fee is roughly $43Mm X 3, or $129MM and goes up annually. The broadcast rights buy back as at a minimum of the annual payout x2.1 (established by OU and UT for a one year deal that actually benefited the Big12 for OU and UT to leave early) X the number of years left. This season wil be played so there are 12 seasons left. $43MM X 2.1 X 12 = $1,083,600,000. As has been alluded to, not all ACC schools will have a soft landing, there is no incentive to break up the ACC. Further, this magical scenario ignores ESPN’s rights to just say no! What incentive does ESPN have to blow up a profitable network to benefit SU, or even 5-10 ACC teams? Please support your hypothesis with some hard numbers or discussion by decison makers. [/QUOTE]