Every year there is no network...purported to be $2 per team plus whatever

is negotiated. Some have speculated that the total of base $ plus "happy money" would be about $3 million per team. I have yet to read anything from anyone with an actual copy of the contract but those annual payments, whether $2m or more, add up.

Hard to envision the status quo lasting much longer whether ESPN moves forward or not. From Swofford interview in July 2015...“If we’re going to do this [ACCN] we need to do it in the right way from the beginning that gives us the opportunity to have long-term success, and that’s what we’re trying to do and time it in a way so the distribution can be good, if not great, coming out, if we go this route. The other alternative is larger rights fees (from ESPN).”

So there is apparently either going to be an ACCN, or an increase in the current rights fees.

[Post edited by daveinop at 02/10/2016 11:39AM]

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GT AD Mike Bobinski on Atlanta radio and my proposal for making an ACC Net -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 10:04AM

Make it so. ** -- mwke 02/14/2016 11:02PM

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There are only 3 schools who would fire him right away. -- Atlee Hokie 02/07/2016 1:09PM

One other thing...the new network needs to hire me -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 1:59PM

Re: GT AD Mike Bobinski on Atlanta radio and my proposal for making an ACC Net -- Red Hokie 02/04/2016 12:55PM

Everybody has a price. If you were experiencing layoffs and your parent -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 1:46PM

Wait, $45 million PER YEAR? This is the first I've heard that it was annual ** -- Freddyburg Hokie 02/07/2016 11:21AM

Every year there is no network...purported to be $2 per team plus whatever -- daveinop 02/10/2016 11:39AM

Is Aug 2017 a realistic launch date? -- Red Hokie 02/04/2016 1:48PM

Aug 2016 was a realistic launch date, if it had been planned to follow... -- EDGEMAN 02/04/2016 3:58PM

Let's just say that is a stretch goal. -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 1:52PM

Interesting proposition Cobb, my question to you is if Comcast buys Raycom, -- Stech 02/04/2016 12:16PM

I think that the ACC essentially has to enter into a joint venture -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 1:48PM

The Pac12 did it on their own. does the ACC not have enough money? -- chuckd4vt 02/04/2016 6:42PM

I doubt that the ACC has the money to make this work -- CobbCountyHokie 02/05/2016 10:07AM

I agree that AT&T /DirectTV will be a challenge. -- Old Line Hokie 02/04/2016 11:49AM

My additional proposal for the ACC Net -- EDGEMAN 02/04/2016 11:01AM

Good post Cobb -- ScottyHeel 02/04/2016 10:24AM

Why are/have we hanging onto espn so long? -- Atlee Hokie 02/07/2016 1:06PM

You are spot on with the Pac 12 network -- CobbCountyHokie 02/04/2016 10:38AM

What's your thoughts on an ACC network created and run as the Pac12N is? -- chuckd4vt 02/04/2016 3:11PM

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