So Is There Worry about the ACC-ESPN Contract...most likely not and here is why:

[arbitragegls]

ESPN the leader of sports entertainment (sorry WWE) has NFL football, MLB, Golf, NBA and college sports lots of college sports. Now think deeply, which venue provides the MOST amount of sports programming to ESPN...you are going to be surprised: once again from a cousin at NC State administration the following (also found in other blogs including Frank the Tank and ESPN listing of content etc) comes to this fact:

The ACC is the single largest content provider to all of the ESPN networks, whether college or pro.
Let that sink in for a moment. The ACC provides more live content to ESPN than the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. So, do you really think ESPN wants the ACC to lose anyone, much less actually enable another league (the Big 12) to poach Jim Swofford’s gang? Since many sports fans tend to forget the existence of anything that happened beyond one year ago, they have forgotten how strong the ACC has been as a TV property over the long haul...
and I believe that ESPN in the end will throw sufficient dollars at the ACC to make it at least equal to TV rights of the Big 12--thus not giving $$$ the reason for a team to leave the ACC. Do we believe that the ACC negotiations will come out reasonably favorable to the other conferences...? I believe it is a very good possibility that the ESPN contract coming up will be very good...for 'Cuse. What do you think?

 

[WoadBlue]

ESPN the leader of sports entertainment (sorry WWE) has NFL football, MLB, Golf, NBA and college sports lots of college sports. Now think deeply, which venue provides the MOST amount of sports programming to ESPN...you are going to be surprised: once again from a cousin at NC State administration the following (also found in other blogs including Frank the Tank and ESPN listing of content etc) comes to this fact:

The ACC is the single largest content provider to all of the ESPN networks, whether college or pro.
Let that sink in for a moment. The ACC provides more live content to ESPN than the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. So, do you really think ESPN wants the ACC to lose anyone, much less actually enable another league (the Big 12) to poach Jim Swofford’s gang? Since many sports fans tend to forget the existence of anything that happened beyond one year ago, they have forgotten how strong the ACC has been as a TV property over the long haul...
and I believe that ESPN in the end will throw sufficient dollars at the ACC to make it at least equal to TV rights of the Big 12--thus not giving $$$ the reason for a team to leave the ACC. Do we believe that the ACC negotiations will come out reasonably favorable to the other conferences...? I believe it is a very good possibility that the ESPN contract coming up will be very good...for 'Cuse. What do you think?

 

[zls44]

I believe that ESPN in the end will throw sufficient dollars at the ACC to make it at least equal to TV rights of the Big 12

Heh.