ESPN extends contract with ACC until 2035-2036

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Not really sure we need to get into a pissing match with the ACC. The big 12 arguing with them is pretty much the Spider-Man meme.

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4:48p, 1/30/25
It's kind of ironic. Every media name in Big 12 land was forecasting the death of the ACC over the past 12 months and saying ESPN would bow out and not elect to exercise its extension rights, including one national guy who promised us the ACC would be broken apart by the end of July.........and it didn't. Now, with an extension through 2036 it means ESPN decided not to castrate the ACC. It also means the Big 12's contract is the one that comes up much sooner than the ACC's now and could be the conference ESPN or other media sources decide to castrate first. Luckily it will likely be a completely different looking football world by 2030 and no one has any inkling of what it will look like.
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4:58p, 1/30/25
I thought the ACC's deal always had been running through 2036. I thought that was the controversy with some members-- that they were locked in too long. Furthermore the XII intentionally wanted a shorter grant of rights with its more recent contract and wanted it's newest contract to be renegotiated before the ACC's expired like it did prior to the PAC's last contract coming to an end. Why is this called an extension? What is new here?
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In reply to PartyBear • 10:44a, 2/1/25
Current contract was to expire in 2027.

ESPN picked up the option to extend it 9 years.

Other terms of deal remain unchanged.
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11:23a, 2/1/25
I thought I remembered from realignment talk that FSU and Clemson would have to pay a lot of money to get out because they were locked in until the mid 30s. If it was just two more years, I'm not sure why it was too expensive for them or the Big 2 to poach them and why they needed to file suit to try to get out, if it was already time to renegotiate the tv deal for the ACC. Two more years is what the Big 2's latest acquisitions from the XII and PAC had at the time of poaching.
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In reply to PartyBear • 12:02p, 2/1/25
PartyBear said:
I thought I remembered from realignment talk that FSU and Clemson would have to pay a lot of money to get out because they were locked in until the mid 30s. If it was just two more years, I'm not sure why it was too expensive for them or the Big 2 to poach them and why they needed to file suit to try to get out, if it was already time to renegotiate the tv deal for the ACC. Two more years is what the Big 2's latest acquisitions from the XII and PAC had at the time of poaching.
ESPN had an option not to renew. That came out when Florida State and Clemson were maneuvering to escape the contract. But it was always the most likely outcome that that got extended to the reported date of 2036.

ESPN likes having that (relatively) cheap inventory to lead into its SEC games.
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In reply to boognish_bear • 1:48p, 2/1/25
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Sourcing Altimore is a special kind of crazy.

1) he is a lying POS and is nothing more than Cal's lap dog.

2) those numbers are massively manipulated.
Not even an apples to oranges comparison. More of an apples to semi-tractors comp.

The only number that can be trusted is yearly per school "after all expenses" payout.
B12 pays out expenses before distributions. ACC distributes and then invoices for expenses. Hopefully anyone can see how those differing methods impact evaluation of distributions.

As an aside, those "fake numbers" are "length of the contract averages". ACC is contracted through 2036. B12 will have an entire additional contract [or at least the vast bulk of one] within that same window that hasn't even begun to be negotiated. He is basically comping a 100% known amount to a 45% known amount.

Takeaway: anyone using any data dump manipulated by Altimore needs to rethink such nonsense.
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In reply to PartyBear • 4:46p, 2/1/25
PartyBear said:
I thought I remembered from realignment talk that FSU and Clemson would have to pay a lot of money to get out because they were locked in until the mid 30s. If it was just two more years, I'm not sure why it was too expensive for them or the Big 2 to poach them and why they needed to file suit to try to get out, if it was already time to renegotiate the tv deal for the ACC. Two more years is what the Big 2's latest acquisitions from the XII and PAC had at the time of poaching.


Also, the GOR was in place regardless of the media deal, so, even in a extremely unlikely world where ESPN did not extend the deal, the ACC would still own FSU's and Clemson's media rights through the mid 2030s as the GORs are secured separately from media deals.
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In reply to Adriacus Peratuun • 4:53p, 2/3/25
Adriacus Peratuun said:
boognish_bear said:
Sourcing Altimore is a special kind of crazy.

1) he is a lying POS and is nothing more than Cal's lap dog.

2) those numbers are massively manipulated.
Not even an apples to oranges comparison. More of an apples to semi-tractors comp.

The only number that can be trusted is yearly per school "after all expenses" payout.
B12 pays out expenses before distributions. ACC distributes and then invoices for expenses. Hopefully anyone can see how those differing methods impact evaluation of distributions.

As an aside, those "fake numbers" are "length of the contract averages". ACC is contracted through 2036. B12 will have an entire additional contract [or at least the vast bulk of one] within that same window that hasn't even begun to be negotiated. He is basically comping a 100% known amount to a 45% known amount.

Takeaway: anyone using any data dump manipulated by Altimore needs to rethink such nonsense.
Yes. Anyone who unironically posts a Tonly Altimore post should automatically receive a 3 week suspension on SE365.
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In reply to boognish_bear • 4:32p, 2/18/25
boognish_bear said:
Those numbers sound right, but I'm not sure about my confidence level in the source.
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In reply to Booboo Bear • 8:55p, 2/19/25
Is there anyone who is reliable who can tell us what the ACC payouts are per school after invoicing compared to the Big 12?
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