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[QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1035847, member: 2043"]
Raycom and the ACC are incestuous.  It is much deeper than John Swofford's son.  Raycom Sports has been producing ACC basketball games since 1979, and Raycom partnered with Jefferson Pilot Communications, who owned television stations all over the southeast to show the basketball games.   Eventually football games were produced as well.   Raycom created a syndication of ACC football and basketball and signed up local TV stations all over the footprint and the country.  Then they signed up many of the local cable sports networks like Comcast Sports Net. 
 
Ken Haines, who runs Raycom Sports, is a big wheel in the Charlotte Sports scene.  He created the Charlotte Bowl Game,  he sponsored ACC Men's basketball tournaments in Charlotte,  he took over the Charlotte running of the ACC football championship.  He's been a huge ACC sponsor in the region, and it is tough to tell someone like that you have loved them for decades, but you don't love them anymore.   So I honestly believe that when the ACC cable network is announced Ken Haines of Raycom will play a role in it somehow.   I think John Swofford's son is a sideshow for people to complain about Raycom.  Raycom has no intention of holding the ACC hostage.
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