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[QUOTE="OrangeHeel, post: 285257, member: 152"]
Help me out:  
 
Is FSU really the ACC's stalking horse?  Now Swofford can go back and tell them "see, I told you what would happen if you low-balled us).   Sort of the same notion that helped propel the B12 contract when it looked Armageddon was at hand.
 
Why wouldn't ESPN want to come back and make ACC contract equivalent to B12? It would be cheaper for them and not destroy their leading source of programming (the ACC).  
 
I know the following is simplistic because it doesn't take into account whether Texas v. FSU and ISU v. FSU is worth more than Miami v. FSU and SU v. FSU, but play along:
 
Big 12 is supposed to get new deal for $20M per school per year.
 
ACC deal right now is for $17M per team per year up from $13M. (I know about the backloading stuff, but this is the number bandied about.)   B12 deal is supposed to increase the per team pay out by $5M per team according to reports.
 
ESPN has contract with both leagues (with Fox involved with B12 too).
 
If FSU goes to B12 & a 12th comes with them, the ESPN contract has to go up $40 million to just stay even.  You would assume B12 looking to add at least $4M per team to deal like ACC just did.
 
Additional cost to ESPN for new ACC deal per year is $74M (12 teams x $4M increase + 2 teams (SU/Pitt) x $17M = $48M + $34M).
 
Additional cost to ESPN for new B12 deal per year is $50M (10 teams x $5M increase = $50M ).
 
Additional cost to ESPN for new B12 deal with an additional $4M bump per team (adding FSU + 1) is $138M ($50M + 10 teams x $4M increase + 2 teams (FSU/?) x $24M = $50M + $40M + $48M).
 
Additional cost to ESPN for to upgrade new ACC deal to get each team to $20M & keep FSU happy is $116M ($74 M under deal just announced + $3M x 14 teams = $74M + $42M).
 
Just throwing it out there for discussion.
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