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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4765636, member: 5685"]
Actually it seems even worse for the B12.

I believe the current TV deal was originally about $25M per team. The B12 paid out from other income about $15M per team, so about $40M total. Adding the 4 new teams reduced that to about $33M for the old teams, while the new teams get about $18M.

ESPN/FOX are not paying a pro rata for the 4 new teams in 2023 and 2024. They will not reduce the payout in 2024 when Texas and Oklahoma leave.

So ESPN doesn't pay a dime more. FOX doesn't pay a dime more. Texas doesn't pay a dime. Oklahoma doesn't pay a dime.

The roughly $65M that would have gone to Texas and Oklahoma gets distributed to the leftover 8 teams. So they get about $8M each and takes them to about $40M total, which is where they were last year (2022) anyway.

So in the end there was no buyout for one year of the GOR and there was no exit fee.

Which all goes back to my point before. ESPN moved 2 schools from the B12 to the SEC. Since they did not reduce the total TV value, there was no GOR buyout. When ESPN can afford it, they can do the same with the ACC Tier 1/2 TV rights. The question is at what point can they afford it, not if the GOR can be broken.

The bigger issue is the ACCN. That plus the 3 year revenue exit fee, will need to be negotiated. I think the ACC would settle for withholding one year's revenue. So if a team wanted to leave for the SEC, they would have no conference revenue for their last year in the ACC and likely reduced revenue for their 1st year in the SEC. Maybe $100M in lost revenue but no actual payment.

If the SEC wanted an ACC team (they might have no interest), and ESPN can afford to do so (can they?), the GOR will not get in the way.
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