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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2961865, member: 27"] I assume most of the AAC wanted a GOR. If they had signed one, ESPN would surely have paid more money to them. A significant amount more. But UCF, USF and Cincinnati, maybe Memphis too, surely were against this and all it takes is one school to veto a GOR. These schools were against it because they think a P5 conference might someday take them, and they want the freedom to be able to leave easily if they ever get an offer to escape. It looks to me as though all Tier 3 rights were included, which is good unless you were selling some of those rights and getting good money for them. UConn has a decent deal with SNY, mostly based on featuring their women's team. I think this means there will be no AAC content on regional sports networks, no local deals, all live sports events for ACC schools will owned by ESPN, who may or many not opt to cover the events, with the exception of a few games CBS owns each season. Some AAC fans are saying they will get more games on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU because lots of ACC inventory will be shown on ACCN instead, but they fail to realize that the ACCN is going to show the content farmed out to Raycom in past years. ESPN will include a few attractive games that might have been shown on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU in past years to feature on ACCN to help ensure ACCN gets the carriage it needs. But ACCN is just a way to take a lot of inventory that was never going to be shown on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU, and was destined to be syndicated by Raycom or sold by them to someone else, and repackage it so the schools and ESPN would make a ton more money from the same inventory. I think the bottom line is that a lot of AC games that have been shown on CBSN and regional sports networks like SNY will be moved to ESPN+. You can still see these games very easily but you are going to have to pay extra for them. They will not be available to the general public any longer. Their best games will still be on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU. Losing the Tier 3 revenue is going to hurt the schools with decent deals in place to show that inventory. I am a little bummed out because I watched some of those AAC games on CBSN, SNY, etc. I would continue to do this is it didn't cost me extra. But I am not going to pay $4.99 a month to have that access. [/QUOTE]

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