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Message: [QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 4724272, member: 60"] I think ESPN is in a more precarious situation than what is being acknowledged. We all know the fact of the matter is that subs on cable bundles are going down and the next iteration of all of this is streaming / dtc that, as of now, does not create nearly the same revenue. With that said, here are the ACC choices, right? >> Hold and let the GOR / exit fee do it's job and hope that a 3-5 year runway to make changes to garner more revenue is viable before this thing breaks apart. Basically the "it's too expensive to get divorced right now, so let's at least try therapy and a vacation to fix this". >> Fatalist view of just holding out until the GOR / exit fees are viable for teams to bounce and then cash the exit checks and let the chips fall where they may with the remaining teams (maybe a clear second tier third conference with the non SEC/B1G schools and put the pressure on individual schools to figure out what their futures look like in a decade). >> Aggressively try to grow numbers (remaining Pac teams, MWC, AAC etc) and hope that sheer quantity can somehow bring in more revenue (can't imagine this to be the case now that the Big 12 did a land grab) >> Try to see if there are 2-4 teams that, if added, ESPN would be open to significantly upping the agreement. This would have to be pretty cut throat. I don't even know what's viable with the current penalties and I'm considering this to be like a 0.1% chance. It would need to basically be ND, PSU, Maryland or something. I'm sure the current penalties are prohibitively expensive and there is no way ND or PSU is changing anyway. >> Try to win on the margins with ideas that aren't being done yet that can tap into streaming and marry into a strategic partnership with ESPN/ESPN DTC and a TBD other partner. Even if this could work, I'm not sure the value of this in terms of swaying anyone. It's a tough spot. I'm not sure the answer. BUT, the one thing I'd say is that this all is really predicated on rights agreements continuing to go up. I'm not sure how long that arrow is going to just keep pointing up. But with that said, it's going to be long enough that the SEC and B1G are going to get huge deals, the admins of those conferences are going to be buying big boats and by the time it all crumbles, they won't care anyway. [/QUOTE]

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