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[QUOTE="JimBoston, post: 4913242, member: 1312"]
I was rounding financial numbers, but the point is that ESPN can save money by moving schools to other conferences and dropping some ACC schools.  As far as "losing revenues" by losing brands, if ESPN moves 4 schools to the SEC and 4 schools to the Big 12, they have more than enough college football content for their 12 main slots on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 on Saturdays and 2 to 3 SECN games.  Look at how many ACC games are streamed or on the ACCN because ESPN does not have time slots available.  And, ESPN also has filler conferences like the AAC, MAC, SBC, and CUSA to fill in time slots like on Thursday and Friday nights, ESPNU, ESPN+.

As for margin, the way ESPN is getting paid today is a monthly fee from cable companies for each subscriber.  Plus, they get advertising revenues.  The revenues will not change with reducing some content, but revenues will decline due to cable cord cutting.  So, if you can reduce your costs, you will see better margins
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