Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of guys....lotsa lucky Swoffy..
Music to my ears...good luck with adding the backwater's...Fishy already told us it wasn't happening.
Two things that have zero chance of happening in 2017:
1) An ACC Network.
2) Florida State and Clemson moving to the Big 12.
Fishy,May 29, 2015
http://the-boneyard.com/threads/non-key-tweets.36164/page-192#post-1335991
I wonder if the delay will have any impact on accelerating the timelines for some of us that need the call. Does this mean the ACC will look to add a few more brands and markets (cough, cough)? Or are they slowing down because they're confident that the B12 will just keep bumbling along down the ol' Big East's path of self-destruction? I also wonder if this will loosen up a few ACC schools.
Or maybe this has nothing to do with anything other than trying to keep the B1G bidding down. Sending out all of these cost-cutting, layoff, delayed launch signals might be an effort to keep FOX from bidding overly aggressively.
Conspiracy theories abound (in my head)!
David Teel @DavidTeelatDP · 3h3 hours ago
Statement from John Swofford on report that ESPN delaying an #ACC channel: "Anything said ... is premature and speculative."
The rumor is 2 million per team, not enough to keep up with the Big 10 or SEC."In exchange for a later start date, ESPN could make additional payments on top of the rights fees already paid to the conference, Peterson said."
I guess it depends on how much the ACC gets extra for agreeing to hold off on the Network. Seems like ESPN is just paying them off, and we know this is all about the money...
Lawdy, so now ESPN is paying more to the ACC to not have a network? Who's making decisions in Bristol? Can they see past the nose on their face?
Seems like some serious mismanagement going on over there. No wonder why they're firing personalities and staff left and right. Not only are they outbidding themselves on several contracts, but now they are paying a conference more money for no other reason than they are scared of launch losses.
The ACC Network is a corpse.
Demographics are dead set against it.
The ACC is subordinate in nearly every market it competes in or largely irrelevant in markets that it owns.
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky....spoken for by the SEC Network.
DC to New York.....Big Ten Network.
Boston, Indiana....giggle.
ESPN isn't particularly interested in forming a network that might only contend for top dollar in Carolina and Virginia. (At least until the Big Ten and SEC come calling again in the mid-2020's.)
If only someone, anyone, would take Syracuse, Pitt, and Boston College.
Yup.Someone did. The Florida State Seminoles.
Bobby Bowden has said many times that he steered the 'Noles to the ACC instead of the SEC because he felt he'd have a better chance of winning a national championship. And he was right. His teams won crowns in 1993 and '99, all the while running roughshod over the rest of the conference. Eventually the 'Noles' dominance motivated other programs like Clemson to raise their game. It also paved the way for the ACC's second expansion a decade later.
So, Swoffy spoke prematurely and speculatively?David Teel @DavidTeelatDP · 3h3 hours ago
Statement from John Swofford on report that ESPN delaying an #ACC channel: "Anything said ... is premature and speculative."
It seems unlikely because, other than geography, those schools don't fit well at all.If only someone, anyone, would take Syracuse, Pitt, and Boston College. They do fit well with the east-northeast (Rutgers, UConn, Maryland, PSU).
But that seems unlikely...