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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1706402, member: 652"] ESPN bought all the ACC rights but because of the Raycom relationship the ACC had ESPN sell 3rd tier rights to Raycom. Raycom has these games for the ACC Network games but then Raycom subleased some of these 3rd tier rights to Fox Sports. Mainly for their Fox Sports South station in NC. Now Fox Sports owns those rights and that is the weekly football game that is syndicated out nationally not on the ACCN and a bunch of basketball games that aren't chosen by ESPN. For a ACC network to be established ESPN would require the ACC buy back those rights and it won't be easy because Fox has the leverage and Raycom can't make them do anything. Thus, if the ACC wanted them back it would have to come out of its own pockets. This is the stuff that the SEC had to do to get ESPN on-board for the SECN. The SEC bought back all their individual teams 3rd tier rights and gave them to ESPN as part of the deal for the SECN. [/QUOTE]