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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1110409, member: 1145"] I think the comiong ACC Network will be a different animal from the get-go. It won't be about football 1st and 2nd, like the BTN, or 1st and 2nd and 3rd, like the SECN. It will be about all sports. The league will make a deteremined pitch to drawe every more viewers not merely to the 2 revenue sports but to all sports. Our basketball will make the ACCN heavily trafficked during winter, but the key tio maximizing its value is non-revenue sports. We clearly have the 2nd best top to bottom baseball and the 2nd most baseball fans. Now, SEC baseball gets excellent TV coverage for baseball across the South, while ACC baseball is under-televised. That will change with the ACCN. The ACCN will mean that every lacrosse match played by the 5 can be televised. Some may not be, because of conflicts, but the 5 of us are all among the dozen most important programs in what is easily the fastest growing sport, not just now but in history. There will be a much larger TV audience for lacrosse in 10 years than there was even 5 years ago. And the ACC will dominate that. ACC soccer also will get decent live coverage on the ACCN, and while I don't expect the audience for college soccer to grow the way lacrosse will for some time, I think it now is ready for good TV coverage of a top conference. The main issue for ACC Presidents and ADs is not to equal the money the Big Ten and SEC get from networks; it is to maximize exposure, including for non-revenue sports. And, yes, ND is essential to getting an ACC network. Rich ND alums who back basketball and/or non-revenue sports are going to play key roles getting their fans involved. They also will be essential to getting ND to help by allowing ND based football shows on the ACCN, which is what is required to get the ND football fans to pay attention. If ND allows its archives of photos and newsreels to be used to make shows on ND football history, Irish football fans are going to want the ACCN, even if there are no live ND football games on it. But we all as fans of ACC schools will have to change our sports TV watching to make the ACCN work as well as it can. If Syracuse fans, for example, watch old BE basketball games and NBA games rather than watching GT vs. Clemson or FSU vs,. Miami on the ACCN, the ACC loses, which means Syracuse loses. If FSU and Celmson football fans watch SEC football games rather Cuse vs Pitt or BC or Louisville on the ACCN, the ACC loses, which means FSU and Clemson lose. For me - it means I must watch less SEC football and baseball and much more ACC football and baseball, which I will do when the ACC games are available to me. [/QUOTE]

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