ESPN ACC Deal, 15 years, 3.6 BILLION!!!

[ItsStillMurda]

the GOAT college basketball rivalry lies within the ACC. and their two of the biggest collegic schools in the history of the NCAA and still currently are. Duke and UNC. ACC is college basketball. this deal will have espn eatin juss fiiiiine

nobody cares about college bball anymore. especially that overhyped rivalry of corny whiteboys and soft premadonnas.

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

Of course football is the driver but you dont think having 4 top tier bball schools is something worth paying for? Please, all dikk Vitale does on ESPN is hype up Duke and UNC, they aint trying to lose that.

And like i said, the deal is still the lowest one of the major conferences. ESPN isnt just gonna let CBS and Fox have ownership of a major conference. Only a supreme idiot would do something that dumb. Whether you want to believe it or not people still watch ACC football.

Ill enjoy watching our games just as you enjoy pretending UGA is a major factor in the SEC.

Its all about football this has nothing to do with basketball..College bball ratings outside of march madness[which arent nearly as big as the hype it gets] are on the level of a volleyball..they dont even register nationally

 

[M617]

Georia Tech doesnt suck they are a southern college and we all know they have good football programs

Doesnt Boston College bring in a ton of NFL draft picks and they used to be in the ACC championship like every year

 

[in the NICK of time]

nobody cares about college bball anymore. especially that overhyped rivalry of corny whiteboys and soft premadonnas.

speak for yourself. you may not care but you couldnt be more wrong bout NCAA bball. like, i may not like boxing but i know it makes loads of money through ppv. sure compared to football no, but college bball is HUGE. especially in the south. there are millions of ppl that actually consider NCAA to be more watchable than the NBA and i know a few that refuse to watch NBA. im not one of em. regardless, this deal is by far not a mistake by espn. far worse deals ive seen....shouldnt even be a discussion imo

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

speak for yourself. you may not care but you couldnt be more wrong bout NCAA bball. like, i may not like boxing but i know it makes loads of money through ppv. sure compared to football no, but college bball is HUGE. especially in the south. there are millions of ppl that actually consider NCAA to be more watchable than the NBA and i know a few that refuse to watch NBA. im not one of em. regardless, this deal is by far not a mistake by espn. far worse deals ive seen....shouldnt even be a discussion imo

Only places college bball is huge is North Carolina Indiana and Kentucky

 

[StreetDawah]

 

[mastermind]

deserved


the ACC will be the premier BBall conference once Pitt and Syracuse join again.

It will also have the best Lacrosse schools in America too. And soccer, and baseball. They not up there in football, but there is more to a year than just college football even if SEC fans dont realize that.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

This won't last long. Soon as Clemson comes around, FSU and Clemson are Big XII bound

 

[Captain Crunch]

And these kids ain't going to see a penny of it, and people wonder why college athletes do the shyt they do

Preach

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Hope y'all realize that even if a basketball school is top tier they an't seeing the revenue that football does.

 

[ATLien]

....waiting to what that SEC contract gonna look like in a couple years

 

[mastermind]

Hope y'all realize that even if a basketball school is top tier they an't seeing the revenue that football does.

no one has disagreed with that.

 

[AVXL]

Basketball has just as much to do with this. When Syracuse and PITT go into the shytter in basketball everyone's gonna have second thoughts about those two schools

C'mon breh. Yea the expansion makes the ACC a premier basketball conference again (on paper), but the expansion was a reactionary move to expansion in the PAC 12, Big 10, SEC & Big East. Conference realignment, spurred by the revenue of BCS bowl games, is the reason that TV deal exists, even for a weak ass football conference like the ACC.

It sounds nice to say basketball is an important part of this equation, but in reality it's not

 

[Absolut]

Saturday’s #5 Virginia Tech/#20 Clemson ACC Championship Game earned a mere 1.7 overnight rating on ESPN

good luck with that billion dollar venture for acc sports

 

[AVXL]

Saturday’s #5 Virginia Tech/#20 Clemson ACC Championship Game earned a mere 1.7 overnight rating on ESPN

good luck with that billion dollar venture for acc sports

This. Let's not forget that the ACC has had problems even selling out it's own championship games & just now settled on Charlotte as a site for the game.

It's a bad deal for ESPN/ABC