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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4726538, member: 27"]
I think the plan being discussed includes money for all schools for the extra travel expenses adding these schools would drive.  It probably is different for each school depending on where they are located and how easy and cheap it is to fly to Dallas and San Francisco from the school.

No idea how much that will cost but I suspect we are talking 7 figures for every school.  More for the newbies if the ACC is willing to subsidize them (probably not).

Guessing $30 million of the extra money is lost to cover travel.  Something in that range.

I think adding these schools would drive significant revenue because of increased fees from cable subscribers in Texas and California.  Hoping this windfall is not included in the agreement ESPN has with the ACC where the ACC can add schools and not lose revenue.  For states as huge as California and Texas, this could be very significant.  Even with major cable cutter driven losses in cable subscriptions.

I would think the additional money from ACCN would easily cover travel costs and perhaps beyond this.

If you want everyone in the conference to vote yes and buy in, I think you want everyone to benefit financially.  Give the current ACC members an extra $3 million each.  That accounts for $45 million (ND probably gets less because they are not a member for football).  That gives $25 million.

I think they have already agreed to give the conference champions more money than the other schools.  For football and basketball.

That didn't satisfy FSU, who wants more money because some TV viewership numbers they paid a consultant to come up proports to say they deserve 15% of all the revenue from the conference.  Would not be surprised if FSU would not vote yes unless they get at least 15% of all additional revenue because that is what they think they deserve.
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