Unconquered

Being in a conference with Texas is pretty much the worst thing ever

Gotta think more $$ from Big12 would only help.

But its better than making 12.9 million in the ACC, who people also think cater towards Carolina schools. Id rather make 10+ million more and be controlled by Texas than make 10+ million less and be controlled by the ACCCarolina schools

Awesome the extra 11mill annually (rough estimate) it will cost the AD to play all sports in the B12, will only result in a 1mill loss.

I disagree. Money. Money. Money. FSU's money in relation to SEC schools is what matters here. Let me repeat that: FSU's money in relation to SEC schools is ALL that matters.

* Disengagement? Our fans ENJOY playing a slate full of ACC opponents (Duke, Wake, BC, UMD, UVA, others and soon to be Pitt and Cuse) who never travel to Tallahassee?

* Academics? The ACC has turned FSU into some kind of academic dynamo in the last two decades? Does the Big 12 hurt Texas' academics/research? Does the SEC hurt Vanderbilt's?

I refuse to read the moron's article and give him "hits." But those are two of the things I saw copy and pasted that he talked about and both are complete crap. How can ANYONE write a relevant expansion article and not discuss conference revenue?

We already make more than half of what UF makes and that's without some of the live-game content they have the rights to. We also signed our deal a year or two before them right before the market went berserk (yea, unlucky timing again, but $6.6M vs $10M isn't the end of the world) so I feel pretty good about how the market values our property.

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(The rest is not directed towards you, 55Nole.)

Potential revenue as I see it (no sources, just best guesses):

$20M base Big 12 payout
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$1M minimum per school to join the Big 12 (at least 4 new schools, up to 6, I'd imagine)
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$1M minimum per school for the creation of a CG
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$1M minimum for additional 3rd tier rights
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$26M minimum for 14 schools, $28M minimum for 16 schools (+ the $6.6M we are already receiving in our ISP multimedia rights deal = $32.6M minimum)
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Additional revenue by sending 2 teams to the football playoffs more often than the ACC (no one is able to quantify just how much that may be)

In the ACC, even if they can land $20M per school like the Big 12 (and no legitimate website has claimed $20M is attainable for the ACC), it'd still be significantly less than the potential revenue the Big 12 could offer and it'd be short of what the SEC was receiving. That'd be $26.6M ($20M base + $6.6M ISP) or roughly $6M less than the Big 12's worst "projection." A network may be in play for the ACC but ESPN owns all of the ACC's content. In order to get that back to create a network I'd think ESPN would want concessions from the ACC in other areas (ie, less money per year and/or a contract extension, neither being good news for FSU). The ACC looks less and less appealing to me every day.