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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Notre Dame is the key as to whether or not there is a viable exit option for ACC member schools.

Notre Dame plays ice hockey in the Big Ten and Notre Dame football is quasi-independent in that it has agreed to only play 5 ACC football opponents per year and NBC, not ESPN, has the TV media rights to any & all regular season Notre Dame home football games. Lots of exceptions to ACC membership for Notre Dame.

Boston College plays ice hockey in the Hockey East all ice hockey conference.

Is more of a legal contractual matter than a sports issue.

The school with the most to lose if the ACC crumbles is probably Wake Forest University, then Duke & NC State (all of which are located in North Carolina).

Notre Dame probably needs to make the first move as it has the loosest relationship with the ACC among the 15 schools.[/quote]

Notre Dame isn't part of the grant of rights. [/quote]

That certainly helps if true. However, Notre Dame did agree that if Notre Dame football joins a conference that the conference must be the ACC. Legally there should be a way out for Notre Dame (might violate antitrust laws, for example).[/quote]

Notre Dame has nothing to do with the ACC tv deal. Notre Dame gets paid a lot of money by NBC to have their games air on NBC. That TV contract not the ACC gor is the impediment to Notre Dame joining the Big 10  [/quote]

The NBC / Notre Dame TV deal is not an impediment as it expires soon (expires "after 2024").

The impediment for Notre Dame is Notre Dame's promise to join the ACC if its football team joins a conference.[/quote]

[b]It's important if the Big 10 can't offer ND more than NBC [/b][/quote]

You must be kidding. The Big Ten will pay Notre Dame about double the NBC & ACC payouts per year.[/quote]

Will they? The big10 deal is $8 billion over 7 years, so 1.14 a year divided by 16 current schools is $71 million per year. ND is expected to get $60 million a year on it's own. the Big10 is more, but is it enough to give up autonomy? [/quote]

Notre Dame will be lucky to get a raise from about $22 million a year to $60 million a year--especially since viewership of the Notre Dame home games has decreased since the last contract was negotiated. But, anything is possible. Reports are that Notre Dame wants $65 million to $75 million from NBC. If Notre Dame can get $60 million a year from NBC and $10 or $12 million a year from the ACC, then it would be easy to understand why ND would remain as an independent.

TV rights are just one source out of many for college football teams. Research total conference payout per team, not just TV media rights payouts.[/quote]

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