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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Describing Cal & Stanford as "middling football programs with dispassionate fan bases", Sports Illustrated.com article asserts that joining ACC makes sense:

https://si.com/college/2023/08/08/acc-expansion-interest-california-stanford-making-sense[/quote]

Is a broadcaster willing to pay $42 million a year to air Cal and Stanford games? Unless the answer is yes, adding them will cost ACC members money [/quote]

I do not think you get how this works.  ESPN will increase their payout to the SEC if they pick up the California markets.  At worst it would be revenue neutral to the ACC or it will not happen.  ACC will not do anything that would cut their payout.  They are talking to ESPN now in real time about how this would work.  As stated above, the ACC is not going to have just 2 west schools.  They would also add others that will bring in other markets.  [/quote]

Maybe and maybe not. The Big12 contract explicitly contains pro-rata increases for new P5 teams. The Big10 was more careful because their contract does not. We do not know what is in the ACC contract. If adding them requires negotiation, the question becomes how much is Cal football worth to Disney. My guess would be not very much [/quote]

Adding NorCal for games and SoCal by extension is worth a lot.  My point was twofold.  They are talking to ESPN at the same time they are talking to Cal and Stanford.  They will not do anything that cuts the payout to FSU and Clemson.  [/quote]

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