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No one saw that coming. @UCFSports: Big East TV deal “could exceed value” of ACCs (monetarily and exposure) @NickCarparelli tells 700 WLW .”

What happens if that ends up being true ACC lovers?  What then?  What excuse then?

http://www.bigeastcoastbias.com/2012/8/4/3220424/big-east-television-contract-nbc-espn-expansion

Ha!!! ACC is worthless.

Funny how “exceed” turns to approaches in your sources…you guys are so transparent in your hate it is hilarious. Is it really worth your time to be proved wrong over and over?

You know what else this says…basketball means a bunch to tv contracts cause it aint the Houston/SMU football game that is gonna draw that. The Big East is still a top BBall conference even without the football members.

But we all know Basketball is stupid.

Back to being worthless (despite balancing broke FSU’s budget.)

Good for the Big East. Now where was this contract offer a year ago?

A couple of thoughts about that article….First, there is a comment I want to expand on:

“Several tasks remain for the Big East to complete as it heads toward the post-BCS, playoff world in 2014. The conference needs to settle its bowl situation, it needs a commissioner, but more important than either of those is the need to nail down a competitive television contract. While nobody expects the Big East to be able to land a deal as lucrative as even the ACC television contract (the smallest of the current major conference deals), it’s imperative that the new Big East television contract at least keep Big East football programs in the same ballpark as the other five major conferences.”

Second:

“Sources suggest that if NBC, which is desperate for sports inventory, signs a TV contract with the conference, it would be willing to pay the Big East football teams $10 milllion apiece and throw in an additional $4 million for the 16 basketball schools. One of the network’s ideas may be to run a full day of Big East football, along with Notre Dame home games, from noon to midnight Saturdays on either NBC or its still-growing cable channel.”

There are a heck of a lot of “What-ifs” in this article.  it sounds as if NBC is so desperate to get into the college game that that may be willing to overpay for a bunch a marginal football teams…...........

The Big Enchilada suggests that Notre Dame (Imagine That) is part of the equation since they already have a Football Deal with them as an Independent….. ...

I don’t think you can look at all into some hypothetical deal that doesn’t exist yet and that rely’s on on teams participation…......

For the sake of the argument lets say that NBC wants to pay powerhouses like Rutger and UConn 10-14 million to watch them play in 25-35K crowds…..The ACC 5 year look in would offer leverage to the ACC Member schools…......

Finally, what if Notre Dame Joins the B1G,Big12 or ACC?.....Do you think the Big East would still be offered such a hypothetical sweetheart deal?

I think it is an interesting read, but your euphoria and “spiking the ball ” is extremely premature.

SoPinesHeel - 06 August 2012 09:13 AM

Funny how “exceed” turns to approaches in your sources…you guys are so transparent in your hate it is hilarious. Is it really worth your time to be proved wrong over and over?

You know what else this says…basketball means a bunch to tv contracts cause it aint the Houston/SMU football game that is gonna draw that. The Big East is still a top BBall conference even without the football members.

But we all know Basketball is stupid.

Back to being worthless (despite balancing broke FSU’s budget.)

Okay… Take all financial implications/tv contracts out of the question… The ACC is a joke and nobody could give a flying rat’s butt to watch ACC football… I can see how living in North Carolina can brainwash you… But the rest of the nation unanimously thinks the ACC is weak and worthless.

I’m tired that every time somebody says “FSU might be good enough to make a run this year… But that ACC schedule is going to hurt them”...

And you’re right… basketball is stupid… Unless you live in North Carolina or the northeast.

The least you could do is acknowledge that the ACC sucks… Nobody would disagree with you… But instead all I hear is you sucking on a slurpee… At least I think it’s a slurpee.

Well I am defintely dumber for having read that. Way to represent…

“Basketball is stupid…Unless you live in North Carolina or the northeast”

...or Kentucky, or Indiana, or Kansas, or Los Angeles etc. etc. etc.

Stupid LeBron. Stupid Jordan. Who cares. Big East football definitely is where it is at.

Are you sure it is basketball that is the stupid one here?

Ok… So you can’t even acknowledge that the ACC sucks… You’re on drugs buddy… I’m done with the money debate… Fine, the ACC contract is good/bad I don’t care… I’m just tired of being associated with this conference and the schools that are in it… It’s the worst in the country… And I’m tired of the one person who would give his life for this scrub conference telling EVERYBODY else how stupid we are because we think the ACC sucks.

I hope if this conference blows up that you take a video of yourself crying like a little baby and post it for all of us to watch… I just can’t understand WHY you love this conference so much… maybe you could at least explain that.

SoPinesHeel - 06 August 2012 12:19 PM

“Basketball is stupid…Unless you live in North Carolina or the northeast”

...or Kentucky, or Indiana, or Kansas, or Los Angeles etc. etc. etc.

Stupid LeBron. Stupid Jordan. Who cares. Big East football definitely is where it is at.

Are you sure it is basketball that is the stupid one here?

Okay… you’re right… Basketball pays the bills… We’re all sitting around saying “Damn, I can’t wait til basketball season!!”

Just stop it… how bout that… Everybody knows you love the ACC (why?? I don’t think anybody knows the answer to that)... But we get it… We know where you stand… Just keep your mouth shut.

People should look closer too.  This is NBC wanting to keep their foot in the door for college football.  They are the last ones out, Fox and ESPN are running the show.  NBC overpays for the Big Least and further cements Notre Dame as an independent.  They have no incentive to go to the ACC with a contract like this.  They get their NBC football money plus extra money for non football sports in the Big Least.

Any hopes the ACC had of attracting ND are very quickly fading if not already gone.  So what are you going to do to keep a team like FSU now?  How do you pitch to them that a conference almost void of any kind of good football is making close to what you make in a “power conference”??

The Big Least is reeling itself in to be on almost equal playing fields as the ACC.  Remember, we won’t be making much more then them until about 2020.  So much for our glorious deal.

And I feel the same way garnet, I want to beat the best to become the best.

Nah dude… FSU apparently doesn’t care about making more money… We just need enough to balance our budget… We’re straight now.

Oh my… this conference is a joke.

Not everyone…just you. And I don’t cry about sports. That is for middle schoolers like you, who make emotional posts trying to infer sexual inuendo about me while living in the FROG of your parents ranch home to do. The same ones who think your football team validates your school. 

I simply point out falsehoods like the entire context of this thread. You hear Duke fans complaining, you hear UVA fans complaining, you hear VT complaining, you hear Carolina fans complaining? Who do we hear complaining? FSU and Clemson. Who has not lived up to their self proclaimed billing as a national football power recently? FSU and Clemson. And somehow that is the fault of the ACC? Talk about stupid…that is the definition.

I like the ACC because of the geography, I like the ACC because of the tradition, I like the ACC because of the schools, and I like the ACC because of the basketball…gasp.

Listen dude…I was a fan of Carolina and our association with the ACC when FSU was wandering through independence playing in an errector set stadium with a light up spear on the scoreboard having 5 away games for 1 return.  We let you in because you wanted in, and you have benefited greatly. We had a good conference without you (having national championships before you from 3 different schools) and will have a good conference again if you are dumb enough to exile yourself to the Big 12. Goodbye and don’t let the door hit you. If Clemson wants to do the same? Fine. I like yall here but you want to go? Go. Weird that you haven’t though. Wonder why if it is so much better elsewhere? But don’t think the rest of us will not be glad to spend the 25 million you have to charge on the credit card since your school is broke, enjoy the increased per school cut, all while you find out your financial situation is worse in your dream conference of the Big 12.

But yeah…the ACC is the problem, nothing to do with internet message board fans like you. Nothing.