ACC Revenue Distributions for 2013-14
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richard levy
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SEC teams each getting 30-something mil for last year
It's 31, and it's next year (and it includes playoff money and the 27.5 mm OB appearance)
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Yep. And it is more like semi-independence. When a conference schedules 5 of your 12 regular season games, how independent is that in comparison with a conference scheduling 8 of 12?
But if ND only cared about $$$, they'd have gone to the Big Ten long ago.
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Neil
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And your point is...?
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Notre Dame had two reasons for affiliating with the ACC:
1. With the OBE falling apart ND wanted a good home for basketball, soccer and lacrosse and the other sports and the ACC was the best possible home. It allows ND to compete against the big names in each sport and not have to rely on the "Catholic 7" who are not relevant any more. The B1G didn't want them as a partial member and really isn't a leader in the non-revenue sports. ND's historic recruiting area is the eastern half of the US and not the western Great Lakes and the Plains that make up the western part of the B1G.
2. With the advent of the CFP system and the bowl games all contracting with one conference or another, ND realized that in seasons when it didn't get into a semi-final game, they would be locked out of most other bowl games. Now they have access to the ACC-contracted bowl games.
As an aside, I believe that the Notre Dame leadership -- not the fans -- has made the strategic decision to join the ACC completely in a few years (this may already be an understanding with the ACC). They are waiting to see how the relationship with the ACC develops and fans' acceptance of the conference grows.
I generally agree. It would be great if they bring PSU in with them as #16. I despise PSU, but the PSU games have the potential to be a lot of fun.
Then think of how great beating them would feel.
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IIRC, the agreement with ND for bringing in their Olympic sports gives the ACC first dibs on their football team until 2025, if (and it's a big "if") they decide to join a conference for football.
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MD's ACC to B1G strategy .. the Gift that keeps on Giving:
1. Run the AD so deep into the red that you can't see to the top of the hole you've dug for yourself;
2. Do nothing to cut back expenditures so the problem reaches crisis stage;
3. While you're busy doing nothing, have your U President agree to a new league (ACC) contract which ups the exit fee from $20M to a whopping $50M;
4. Pull out of the league and trigger the $50M exit fee provision and start whining about it publically;
5. Join another conference (with a modestly better revenue stream) and then complain that you shouldn't have to pay the exit fee you just agreed to increase;
6. Get sued by your former league, run up a colossal legal bill, and then agree to pay $31.5M to your former league.. more than $11M above the original exit fee.
