ACC signs a new TV deal with ESPN

Question regarding the alliance; who’s in and who’s out? How many teams total and what will the schedule look like? I’m sure it’s already been discussed in another thread, but what can I say, I’m lazy.

Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see any reason for the ACC’s deal to jump dramatically that wouldn’t also apply to the BIg 12 (and Pac 10 and Big East). The expansion to 12 teams had allready happened for the ACC, correct? The only reason I can see such a jump for that ACC is that there is simply a demand to see college football, and there are now many channels/platforms to air it. Would it not be correct then to assume that if the Big 12 just waits until its time to negotiate that it will go similar to the last round? Meaning that the Big 12 would get a deal a little better than the ACC and a little worse than the SEC and Big 12. So somewhere in the $170 million/year range.

I actually like the FOX broadcast. No annoying ticker. No annoying Sportcenter In-Game. No highlights from Ohio State’s 56-7 victory over Indiana while the ball is actually in play in the Texas game. . .

The flaw with Fox Sports isn’t so much it’s production, though they often miss plays (Yea! Jet Tempo! Oh. No, it’s cool, I didn’t want to see that 2 yard gain anyway!), as much as it’s determination not to fire Dave Lapham.

There’s a retarded kid who broadcasts our local rodeo parade on his imaginary station using an oatmeal carton and a hanger. Compared to FSN, he’s state of the art.

What he said.

Interesting – the momentum is clearly building toward somethig big.

I like to think that Dodds & company have a plan in place and that their silence is indicative of ongoing work behind the scenes. I suspect that his recent contract extension is related in large part to this.

Considering Saban’s comments at that golf shindig (lined at BON), along with other bits and pieces, there’s more and more smoke surrounding the PAC-10 / Big XII alliance.

I’m cautiously optimistic.

Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see any reason for the ACC’s deal to jump dramatically that wouldn’t also apply to the BIg 12 (and Pac 10 and Big East). The expansion to 12 teams had allready happened for the ACC, correct?

The ACC deal jumps up in part because they put basketball and football together. Duke drives TV sets across the country — people love to hate them and will turn in to watch. North Carolina is another “National” brand in college basketball. Basketball is why Fox wanted the package and why ESPN was willing to up the ante.

There certainly is nothing like that to help the Pac 10, and maybe Kansas in the Big 12 in basketball, but really very little else to drive a combination package like that of the ACC.

The other factor is the primary and secondary TV markets in the ACC are deeper than the Big 12. The largest markets in the Big 12 are all secondary (that is not where the school is located) # 5 Dallas, #10 Houston, #16 Denver #21 St. Louis and #32 Kansas City.

Austin at #48 is the largest TV market in the Big 12 in terms of actual location of the program.

The ACC has #7 Boston, #8 Atlanta, as well as Raleigh Durham (#26), Greensboro-Winston Salem (#46) and a host of other "secondary markets that are larger than most of the Big 12 markets.

The revenue potential for an ACC channel is just better than the Big 12 or Pac 10 as stand alones.

Yeah, instead we get the same shot of an underage drunk chick in the stands between every other play.

And surely their new college football coverage will debut some version of NASCAR gophers and their NFL robot, “Incongruous.”

Can’t say I’m excited to see the syphilis of football broadcasting taking over UT games.

The regional Fox broadcasts are fine. The production values aren’t great and the announcers are usually just okay, but when you watch a game on the regional Fox you actually feel like the game means something to the station. Probably because it does.

The national Fox college football production is an abomination and must be stopped.

If they are willing to shell out big bucks for the rights, obviously they know the production quality must/will improve.

I’m not worried at all about that, in fact I would love to see a rival to ESPN Gameday so I don’t have to hear the Big10/SEC ball gargling all day.

Nice contract. Dan Beebe, the ball is in your court now. Bid Fox against ESPN, with ESPN bidding to keep Fox out more than for just the Big 12 content.

Yeah, underage drunk chicks are horrific. Protect me.

Beebe only has so much to work with. The demographics of the Big 12 are appalling. Much larger area; many fewer people.

The Atomic Teeth are out in full force on this issue. Allsome.

“The regional Fox broadcasts are fine. The production values aren’t great and the announcers are usually just okay, but when you watch a game on the regional Fox you actually feel like the game means something to the station. Probably because it does.

The national Fox college football production is an abomination and must be stopped."

I agree with this.

And I would rather see drunk chicks in the stands than sideline reporter “interviews” on any network. I would abolish the sideline reporter altogether.

I would use randomly selected drunk chicks from the stands as sideline reporters.

The sad thing is, sideline reporters already ask the same questions a drunk girl would.

“Why are your CLEaTs so loooooonnnng”

“Are your gloves STikKyy??”

UCLA and Arizona both have basketball programs that attract national interest (in addition to Kansas and Texas), but football is what’s important here. USC, Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska are key to the TV contract thus KEEPING Nebraska in the B12/P10 equation is key.

Screw it, we’re going to the B16 or P16.

Oddly, the drunk girls on the sideline all want to kiss Joe Namath.

Fox College Football is an affront to God and the universe in general.

Like srr50 says, the dirth of TVs in the Big12 area means Texas is fucked. We can go anywhere we want if we weren’t limited by who wants us.

You’ve been in here beating your pots again haven’t you Bill?

I can understand how Neb and Mizzou might feel like they’re getting the short end, but that bunch is the whole reason we’re in this situation.

Win some games and you might get a little more say in what goes on. I swear if we could get just one of those North teams to compete on regular basis we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

everytime i watch fox do college football, i end up pissed off at the world.

the announcers are always absolute morons. they suck.

Hey! Don’t jump my ass just because I love to drink beer at the Tap and eat Queso a lot! Fox SportsSouthwest gives me air time lovin too…

And be glad you can’t see me in HD

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