about growing revenue disparities
"At issue: The ACC will fall behind both the SEC and Big Ten in revenue by about $30 million per year when their respective new television contracts kick in (Big Ten in 2023, SEC in 2024).
"Something has to change because we cannot compete nationally being $30 million behind every year," Alford said. "It's not one year. We're talking about $30 million compounded year after year."
30 million times 10 years is each ACC school being behind each SEC school a total of 300 million dollars.
Yes, football is MUCH bigger than basketball. Football value is not based on any team's wins, but on proven football fan base size. That means primarily proven TV numbers, but also includes proven hire attendance figures and proven ticket sales for bowl games.
When the ACC finally decided to get serious about football in going to 12, the idiots in charge really thought that adding Syracuse and BC made sense. They were idiots because their entire way of seeing CFB was to mix what they knew about ACC basketball greatness with what they saw in the NFL, and so they assume that having team located in a large city, or state, would mean big wealth even though that team had no fans.
Wake never hurt the wealth and prestige of ACC basketball, so how could BC hurt the wealth and prestige of ACC football, asked the ACC basketball mind. Even Green Bay gets huge TV money, said the NFL fan mind.
Unless ESPN wants to drastically redo the ACC deal, soon, in order to save the league for ESPN, then not just FSU and Clemson but everybody with any shot at getting into either SEC or BT should be furiously maneuvering to do so ASAP.
And ESPN would be insane to think it could ever gain by significantly increasing its payouts to an ACC that intends to keep propping up Wake and BC. They have no fans. They never will have fans, not at a level larger than what we se with better 1AA/FCS programs.
"At issue: The ACC will fall behind both the SEC and Big Ten in revenue by about $30 million per year when their respective new television contracts kick in (Big Ten in 2023, SEC in 2024).
"Something has to change because we cannot compete nationally being $30 million behind every year," Alford said. "It's not one year. We're talking about $30 million compounded year after year."
30 million times 10 years is each ACC school being behind each SEC school a total of 300 million dollars.
Yes, football is MUCH bigger than basketball. Football value is not based on any team's wins, but on proven football fan base size. That means primarily proven TV numbers, but also includes proven hire attendance figures and proven ticket sales for bowl games.
When the ACC finally decided to get serious about football in going to 12, the idiots in charge really thought that adding Syracuse and BC made sense. They were idiots because their entire way of seeing CFB was to mix what they knew about ACC basketball greatness with what they saw in the NFL, and so they assume that having team located in a large city, or state, would mean big wealth even though that team had no fans.
Wake never hurt the wealth and prestige of ACC basketball, so how could BC hurt the wealth and prestige of ACC football, asked the ACC basketball mind. Even Green Bay gets huge TV money, said the NFL fan mind.
Unless ESPN wants to drastically redo the ACC deal, soon, in order to save the league for ESPN, then not just FSU and Clemson but everybody with any shot at getting into either SEC or BT should be furiously maneuvering to do so ASAP.
And ESPN would be insane to think it could ever gain by significantly increasing its payouts to an ACC that intends to keep propping up Wake and BC. They have no fans. They never will have fans, not at a level larger than what we se with better 1AA/FCS programs.