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ACC commissioner John Swofford has spent much of the last four years offering vaguely confident updates on a prospective television outlet dedicated to the league. With the project almost assuredly near fruition, here’s suspecting he’d like to avoid further jousting with media at the conference’s preseason football gathering.
That’s why the ACC and ESPN could well unveil their future partnership before Swofford and reporters meet July 21 in Charlotte, N.C., for his annual state-of-the-conference presser.
As always with negotiations, contractual minutiae may intervene, but if so, this year’s ACC Kickoff will resemble 2012’s, when Swofford’s words and tenor all but announced that the league was poised to welcome Notre Dame – the parties confirmed their nuptials less than two months later.
The linear and/or digital details of an ACC channel remain unknown, but the momentum has been clear since spring.
ACC commissioner John Swofford has spent much of the last four years offering vaguely confident updates on a prospective television outlet dedicated to the league. With the project almost assuredly near fruition, here’s suspecting he’d like to avoid further jousting with media at the conference’s preseason football gathering.
That’s why the ACC and ESPN could well unveil their future partnership before Swofford and reporters meet July 21 in Charlotte, N.C., for his annual state-of-the-conference presser.
As always with negotiations, contractual minutiae may intervene, but if so, this year’s ACC Kickoff will resemble 2012’s, when Swofford’s words and tenor all but announced that the league was poised to welcome Notre Dame – the parties confirmed their nuptials less than two months later.
The linear and/or digital details of an ACC channel remain unknown, but the momentum has been clear since spring.
