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The environment to get carriage is much different now than it was the last time these conferences expanded. I don't think you get carriage in South Florida right away with FSU. You'll get Tampa and Orlando that's it, then fans will have to beg their carriers to add it farther south. If you want...

It will be the B1G not because of the connections to those member schools but because of NBC

missed this earlier, yes exactly. North Carolina government will do all they can to keep NC schools together in any version of the ACC

He clarified that one is a private ivy-wannabe, he thought they were public at first. I think that's Miami. UNC gets left out as the big surprise, there are going to be too many road blocks from the North Carolina legislature and keeping the ACC in tact with Tobacco Road teams together means...

He later clarified that one of the 2 is a private that wants to be an Ivy

Fox would not do all this to get FSU, beyond the tampering they wouldn't do the horse trading to make this happen. Fox wants to be in Fox TV markets. It's why Fox had the B1G add Maryland and Rutgers (Fox O&O stations both markets), the la schools (Fox O&O), Washington (Fox O&O...

I mean, if FSU and Clemson leave and have to pay a buyout, that's more money in Miami's pocket. If they leave and end up not paying a buyout, that's an easier exit for us next. If FSU and Clemson leave then the only prizes left are us, UNC, and Notre Dame. There's leverage for us in whatever...

And they're all meeting to set up the structure of the 12-team playoff, auto-bid guarantees will be negotiating chips.

my theory is getting stronger!

It's not the schools it's the time slot. ESPN has the chance to have Miami, FSU, Clemson, +whatever other random ACC team is ranked at the time, play by themselves in a 10pm eastern window. Was anyone watching 10p Oregon/Stanford outside of California or Oregon before? Probably not. USC/Cal...

Right... this is part of how they got UNC (and maybe ncst) to cross back over to the yes side in theory. No chance fsu or Clemson are coming over.

I think these additions are good for Miami in the long run and here's why: the ACC is planning for the exit of at least the big 3 (Miami, FSU, Clemson). Why would the ACC randomly add three teams? Because they know three teams are gone. While school presidents usually aren't that impressive...

He gets it

Not only that, but NBC would never let it happen they would rather increase the $ big time to have ND join the B10 than lose all ND to the ACC/ESPN

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38198507/acc-florida-state-college-football-2023-conference-realignment

It won't. Perry Sook and the rest of the Nexstar suits are idiots and think the way around cord cutting is to keep increasing their retransmission fees. Good on DirecTV for refusing to pay.

Nexstar also owns CW which carries ACC games this year, and Nexstar just sued DirecTV for copyright so there is not an end in sight to this.

They just want to add Stanford as one of their ACC must plays to open up another spot for a potential B10 scheduling partnership game for more NBC money.

SMU willing to give up conference $ distributions for 5 years to join the ACC

Let's see how this turns out now