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Message: [QUOTE="SU94, post: 3590205, member: 202"] The Chairman of NBC Sports and the man tasked with managing their media rights, is Pete Bevacqua. He is an ND Alum and a former walk-on during the Lou Holtz regime. He is en enormous ND person (watches every game etc.) and has been since he graduated 25 years ago. I think the idea that ND home games are somehow NOT going to be played on NBC should be labeled an extreme long shot. That said, I see nothing that would preclude ND or the ACC from having 6-7 conference games (aka ND home games) per year televised/covered on NBC. That is essentially what is happening this year. And a significant percentage of ND’s rights should be shared with the remaining 14-15 ACC schools. As part of this, I could also conceivably see the Level 3/RSN games being televised covered on another NBC property, such at NBCSN and/or their new streaming service, Peacock. Both channels could use a programming boost. ESPN would them have the rights to all ND road games against ACC conference foes. That is 4-5 games per season and Disney would and should be elated with this arrangement, as they’d essentially be a half rightsholder for ND football. Remember, the Big10 has arrangements with both FOX and ABC/ESPN. That’s worked out swimmingly for them. Bottom line, there are a myriad of possibilities or ACC football in the coming decade. Almost all of them are very good for the conference and Syracuse Athletics. (One thing to acknowledge is that NBC is going to have to significantly increase its rights fees to keep the NFL or Sunday Night Football. That change, which I estimate will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, may affect many of the notions I spelled out above. But football is certainly television gold and the the more one owns, the more the ratings seem to follow) [/QUOTE]

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