According to the ACC executives, the sources have told Yahoo Sports that the process of extending the television contract with ESPN for another nine years.
With long -expected movements, ESPN exercises options in agreement with the league. The network extension is currently expired in 2027 in 2036. This transaction remains almost the same.
The ACC president has met for briefing on Wednesday, but if he has not yet, he is expected to accept almost no other options. In the ACC’s contract with ESPN, the network, not the league, is an option to expand the package at its own discretion.
As part of the scheduling arrangement in the discussion, the league’s largest brand, Florida, Miami, and Kremson are expected to play more soccer games in Notre Dam. Irish people are hoped that at least two out of each season will play rotation.
As Yahoo Sports reported in September, the potential for the league to settle the reconciliation between Clemson and Florida, which could confirm the reconciliation between Kremson and Florida, is the potential for the conference and the league. Open a way to establish a way to maintain them with a change in the revenue distribution structure. The negotiations for months are approaching the solution.
The ESPN TV contract is at the center of the problem.
It was thought that FSU and Clemson’s own lawsuit on the league was originally an effort to change, at least, as both the distribution of ACC profits and the length of the league rights that match ESPN’s television contracts. 。
Kremson and FSU officials, who are dissatisfied with the long -term television contracts of the meeting, have negotiated with the league administrator for concessions for several months to stay in the meeting. The ACC’s ESPN contract is a painful subject with the largest brand of ACC, which paid a small part of SEC and Big Ten’s media money, but the chairman of each school ratified it a few years ago.
The potential motivation from the school is about the shocking revelation and the previous action for some people.
But there is probably no place to go.
Kremson and FSU people feel that there are takers if they are legally indifferent from the grant of the ACC rights. However, SEC or Big Ten schools are unlikely to accept the reduction of television distribution to add schools. For SEC, that’s especially true when considering the footprint: League already owns a scaffold in South Carolina and Florida.
To expand the Big Ten and SEC, you may need more money from television partners. This is more money (over $ 100 million a year). It is mainly Big Ten’s Fox, SEC ESPN.
As Yahoo Sports reported in September, Clementon and FSU are negotiating new revenue structures during negotiations with ACC, which creates another cash divided based on Media Value Metrics and other soccer performance marks. Was introduced. This proposal was introduced to the President of the ACC University and is one of the two solutions to the reconciliation.
Schools have proposed changes to right -wing agreements for conferences at the center of both lawsuits, such as reducing penalty fees related to contracts and their lengths.
The inequality structure is not a completely new idea. Last year, FSU Athletic Director Michael Alford and Seminol’s members of the Directors of Seminol were connected to viewers and other media value data instead of television’s money meeting (currently distributed evenly). I suggested.
New income proposals are considered a solution (perhaps temporary) to avoid the decision of the court on the validity of the rights. The potential loss in a court that immediately opens rights can have a catastrophic impact not only on ACC but also on other meetings, and all schools are the first binding contract. Set a precedent to break what was being broken.
This change is described as a “successful initiative” after the meeting was approved last year, and is a system that distributes more profits with excellent teams with soccer and basketball. This initiative is $ 25 million if all success benchmarks are satisfied, if all successful benchmarks are satisfied, finishing in the top 25, and planning the college football. Give high -performance football programs.
This initiative is an attempt by Commissioner Jim Philips and the League administrator to win the victory in a way to fill the Financial Gap between the ACC and the two most wealthy meetings, SEC and Big Ten. The gap on TV distribution, the main reason for the exit of FSU and Kremson, can rose $ more than $ 30 million per school within the next two years.
