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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5365676, member: 628"] ESPN extended the ACC deal because it is enormously favorable to them. It had little to do with anything else. ESPN is paying a lower rights fee for the ACC now than if the ACC deal was up for bid to all suitors. It made business sense to activate the extension clause in the contract. No one knows what the 2031-2036 de-escalating fee is for GoR specifically. We'll need those details to leak. But reading between the lines of the reporting, it seems that the fee drops precipitously in 2031 and declines further with every passing year to 2036. That likely means that a school paying the fee is essentially buying back their media rights. So if, say, UNC announces in 2029 that they're exiting for the B1G in 2031 I would imagine they'll be taking their media rights with them. [/QUOTE]