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Message: [QUOTE="Madbiker, post: 697510, member: 312"] MD was told that the media payout was going to be $40 million a few years down the road. Who knows. Seems $30 million might be more realistic. The ACC is able to pay out a full share to SU and Pitt immediately because adding them enabled the conference to renegotiate its media deal with ESPN and get a bigger payout right away. The BiG is not getting a raise in TV contracts right away. They are totally dependent on increasing carriage of the BTN and getting more cable subscribers in the new states of MD and NJ, which is going to take some time for that to happen (if it happens at all). 5 years from now it will be obvious that Maryland made a poor deal. Terrible leadership by a former BiG administrator who led them off a cliff. [/QUOTE]