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First of all great post, not a good post, but great post. Second,

I challenge people and traditional thinking all the time. Sounds like you have done the same and I applaud you for it. Yeah I know Chuck, he recently stalked me as an ACC homer, but Chuck was wrong. I am a Virginia Tech and to some degree a UVA homer. I want them to prosper no matter what is happening. I don't think like many Hokies in that regard. I want them both to be on top. As long as of course Virginia Tech beats them. :-)

Now back to what is happening. You have to look at what has happened in the past in college football and none of them, not one has paid the full amount. Not one. If an ACC school pulls out they are very very unlikely to pay the full amount. One because that is what has happened in the past in these situations. Two because the GOR is way above the punitive damages threshold. It's ridiculous to ask a school to pay all of their media rights if they leave for 15 years. There is no way a court is going to hold that up. They may settle with paying them $30,000,000 of the $60,000,000 they pay, but they are not paying all $60,000,000. Thus after realizing that the ACC has no way to get the exposure of the SEC and that Notre Dame is not going anywhere, it's time to break up the All Carolina Conference. They still run the Conference and football will always be number 2. I don't care what Mack does with his reduced stadium. That's all for show, but basketball is all they really care about. Just like the basketball schools in the Big East. So it's time for Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia to lead and not follow the Carolina schools. Virginia Tech needs to go to the SEC like Finebaum keeps heavily hiniting and the University of Virginia needs to go to the B1G. It's a new world and you have to take some risk to advance in it.

PS If Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia leave the ACC, at a minimum Clemson and FSU will go too.

PSS The Big 12 is just getting started on what Texas and Oklahoma will actually pay and when they get out. About two weeks since is happened, plenty is yet to come.

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Posted: 08/08/2021 at 3:44PM

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So, why would it be in ESPN's best interest for the ACC to collapse? -- daveinop 08/08/2021 09:51AM

I don't see ESPN wanting to do that. -- HOO86 08/08/2021 3:13PM

I tend to agree. Like I said below, to me it makes more sense -- daveinop 08/08/2021 3:46PM

What's ESPN's view of the ACCN? -- hokieball 08/08/2021 4:09PM

Took ESPN 8 years to give up on the Longhorn Network. -- PadrosWindup 08/08/2021 9:24PM

Great question! ** -- Stech 08/08/2021 4:13PM

This is why I think increasing the population of the ACC footprint helps. -- HOO86 08/08/2021 3:56PM

Even if the ACC doubled or tripled its footprint, it still may not be -- VTHokie2000 08/08/2021 4:40PM

I don't get where the ACC has to salvage a football reputation. -- HOO86 08/08/2021 5:35PM

The ACC has gone from FSU and the 8 Dwarfs to Clemson and the 13 Dwarfs -- VTHokie2000 08/09/2021 08:25AM

The problem is Notre Dame is no longer in the ACC. If we still had them -- Stech 08/08/2021 5:21PM

I love what you are guys are saying, but the money is in football. I am -- Stech 08/08/2021 4:11PM

Most interesting thing I heard Skipper say was about basketball... -- daveinop 08/08/2021 4:53PM

Great point & he said UNC & Duke just need to be in the same Conference. -- Stech 08/08/2021 5:01PM

So espn can put together a conference that they want. ** -- IB4TECH 08/08/2021 11:42AM

Like what? Why wouldn't -- daveinop 08/08/2021 1:50PM

Espn should want an ACC that could more closely rival the SEC? The company -- IB4TECH 08/08/2021 2:00PM

I agree. So why wouldn't ESPN work to make that happen? -- daveinop 08/08/2021 2:09PM

Legally ESPN may not be able to snap its fingers and it make it happen -- VTHokie2000 08/08/2021 4:42PM

All very true; but it is the path of least resistance. -- daveinop 08/08/2021 5:11PM

Disney is probably banking on the younger generations, -- VTHokie2000 08/09/2021 08:31AM

Less teams to pay, just like with Big 12. Their fine if Fox pays for the -- Stech 08/08/2021 11:02AM

That's fuzzy math and nothing like the Big 12 scenario. They have LHN -- daveinop 08/08/2021 1:48PM

They won't need LHN with this new conference deal. Actually, LHN probably -- 91HokieBob 08/08/2021 2:05PM

UT Pres told Texas Senate that Expectation are to wind down LHN. -- HOO86 08/08/2021 2:59PM

My guess is they would fold those assets into the SECN -- hokieball 08/08/2021 4:01PM

Thanks for sharing that! Good info, did not know they had openly discussed ** -- 91HokieBob 08/08/2021 3:02PM

You think ESPN will have a problem with content with those 16+ teams? -- Stech 08/08/2021 2:02PM

Unless they are showing re-runs, yes. (long response) -- daveinop 08/08/2021 3:07PM

First of all great post, not a good post, but great post. Second, -- Stech 08/08/2021 3:44PM

This is how I've been feeling since 2012, honestly. ** -- hokieball 08/08/2021 5:24PM

^^^This^^^ Preach!! I agree. Want VT and hoova to lead, chart their own -- 91HokieBob 08/08/2021 4:39PM

Thanks Bob! What do you think happens to VT donations & ticket sales n SEC? -- Stech 08/08/2021 4:50PM

Everything goes up to answer all your questions LOL! IMHO, SEC and B1G -- 91HokieBob 08/08/2021 6:04PM

Thanks! And I agree, there is much more to come and to be learned -- daveinop 08/08/2021 3:51PM

It will get more SEC all the time. The ACC will always be second fiddle -- goldendomer 08/08/2021 2:04PM

It's about to get way worst than it's been for 10 years and it hasn't been -- Stech 08/08/2021 3:20PM

VT should be fine. The issue is the GoR and escaping them early. -- goldendomer 08/08/2021 3:32PM

Would like to get Comcast and the rest of the hold outs onboard first... -- EDGEMAN 08/08/2021 10:34AM

The more I think (dream) about it, the more I think ESPN -- daveinop 08/08/2021 10:15AM

Part of the reason ND sticks with NBC, even for less money, is because -- Femoyer Hokie 08/08/2021 10:21AM

Now they will help sell Peacock Subscriptions too. ** -- Stech 08/08/2021 1:30PM

They're helping to sell the ACC Network too. -- HOO86 08/08/2021 2:48PM

First of all great post, not a good post, but great post. Second,

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