ACC inviting Stanford, Cal and SMU - They Will Win the National Championship

[Boston Vol]

The PAC deal ends at the end of this season, I think. I also find it hard to believe ESPN/Fox don't have a "He's dead, Jim" clause in the contract to avoid paying just a few, in this case 2, schools a big bucket of money for nothing.

If they can pull that off this year, good for them. I'll just be really surprised if ESPN/Fox give them something like $250M? or whatever the PAC was getting to split between 2 schools. Then again, the world has gone crazy so who knows.

The numbers that Mandel cited didn’t include revenue from TV rights deals. It was strictly payouts from the College football playoff and the NCAA tournament.

“the two may now be the sole beneficiaries of a significant amount of revenue coming the Pac-12’s way. For one thing, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament units its teams have accrued stay with the conference, and those units are distributed over a six-year period. That source estimates the number at around $90 million over six years.”



“The conference is also due a significantly higher share of College Football Playoff revenue than the Group of 5 leagues for at least the last two years of the current contract. That number last year was $79.4 million for each Power 5 conference”

 

[BowlBrother85]

Can the Atlantic Coast Conference be sued for false advertising if two schools touch the Pacific Coast?

Not unless you're going to do something about the Big Ten having 18 members now. LOL.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

The numbers that Mandel cited didn’t include revenue from TV rights deals. It was strictly payouts from the College football playoff and the NCAA tournament.

“the two may now be the sole beneficiaries of a significant amount of revenue coming the Pac-12’s way. For one thing, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament units its teams have accrued stay with the conference, and those units are distributed over a six-year period. That source estimates the number at around $90 million over six years.”



“The conference is also due a significantly higher share of College Football Playoff revenue than the Group of 5 leagues for at least the last two years of the current contract. That number last year was $79.4 million for each Power 5 conference”

I think it's going to be a stretch to say the PAC exists with just two teams. Teams getting a windfall for being "unchosen" or "the last to die" from a conference seems pretty ridiculous on the surface.

Perhaps the PAC didn't have language in its charter or whatever document forms a conference that states "if there's less than XX members, we're dissolved" but I recall that was an issue for the Big 12 and has been mentioned concerning the possible ACC breakup also.

More power to them if they can get the NCAA to fund a non existent conference. I suppose the NCAA doing irrational things is expected at this point.

 

[Dudleys87]

This is another horrible decision in the neverending story that is conference realignment. What do Cal, Stanford and SMU bring to the table? I agree with what was mentioned earlier. They might as well make a super conference centered around football.

This just comes off as short term thinking.

Word on sports radio here in Charlotte is SMU refused a media cut for the first 10. I didn’t know they didn’t need money because it’s evidently harder than to get in than Harvard and more expensive too.

 

[SpookyAction]

SMU does not get any ACC revenue for 9 years per ESPN.

ACC is really thrilled to add the Mustangs.