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SIR: Another Bad Rumor about Swofford(ACC)

  • this is from a FSU Scout post

    post by uptownjazznole - http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=16&f=2947&t=9017724

    Why Swofford sold [ACC] out. ESPN-Raycom story explained
    We've nibbled around the edges about this, a couple blogs and broken links have been posted. But I thought a thread to discuss this story on it's own merits was called for. Links at end of post seem to tell the story. I think this gets to the essence of the betrayal of the ACC schools by their commissioner, but others may disagree.

    In 2010 as I recall the ACC contract was first negotiated in more or less it's current form, Swofford insisted that ESPN partner with Raycom. While other conferences put the Tier 2 rights up for bids the ACC bundled and gave away the store. Without this no bid award, Raycom goes under. Shortly thereafter Swofford's son gets promoted to Marketing Director at Raycom. Nothing technically illegal seems to have happened here but certainly there is a stench of corruption about all this.

    So where does Chad Swofford work?

    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ch...fford/a/578/8b4

    ESPN executive in link below explains how they got the ACC deal: by appeasing Swofford and bringing in Tier three broadcaster Raycom, a company with an outmoded business model and in general a company widely considered to be an inferior quality broadcaster of sports events.......that was on-the-brink-of-financial-extinction!

    Here's one insider interview of how this happened. In his own words ESPN's negotiator John Skipper asks Swofford what it will take for ESPN to get the deal. Swofford says unequivocally "bring in Raycom". So ESPN gets a cut rate deal and the ACC football schools are dealt a killshot. All in order to save Swofford's son's job...? Read...decide...discuss.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/10/04/daily3.html?page=all

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by Coastal Eer on 5/25/2012 at 8:45 PM

    Coastal Eer

  • JazzNole is the man

    One of my favorite Nole posters ever

    I would pay that guy to post here

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    LSUNoVa97443

  • wow...what a POS

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    University of Oklahoma: B.S. Aerospace Engineering '10, M.S. Mechanical Engineering '12

    greensooner

  • Raycom broadcasted games suck

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    duvalnole

  • LSU-NoVa said...

    JazzNole is the man

    One of my favorite Nole posters ever

    I would pay that guy to post here

    Jazz is pretty cool.

    Missionshk is supposedly going to start posting over here, though.

    GANoles93

  • GANoles93 said...

    Jazz is pretty cool.

    Missionshk is supposedly going to start posting over here, though.

    Ha ha ha shut up, i feel like you are trolling me cause most know about me and him always going at it

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    LSUNoVa97443

  • LSU-NoVa said...

    Ha ha ha shut up, i feel like you are trolling me cause most know about me and him always going at it

    He said that wanted to take care of some unfinished business.

    GANoles93

  • I hate the ACC this..............................................................................much.
    Btw nova, you've fought with every FSU poster on every board ever.

    free shoes

  • dub-B said...

    I hate the ACC this..............................................................................much.
    Btw nova, you've fought with every FSU poster on every board ever.

    Nah on ND i had strong supporters and people i made real life friends with who i never really argued with ( DC Noles was one )

    That place was my first home for a good 4 years or so, i had a ton of posts over there

    Mission was probably my main enemy there, but he was also a delusional creepy old man who most hated on

    He is one of the worst posters ever

    This post was edited by LSUNoVa97443 on 5/25/2012 at 9:35 PM

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  • GANoles93 said...

    He said that wanted to take care of some unfinished business.

    lol

    i kinda hope you are serious, he would be entertaining on here

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    LSUNoVa97443

  • LSU-NoVa said...

    Mission was probably my main enemy there, but he was also a delusional creepy old man who most hated on

    That place is filled with creepy 60+ year olds, now... Missionshk, jimbosballs, james1945,etc,

    Weird site.

    GANoles93

  • Never doubted your Nole spirit my man.

    free shoes

  • GANoles93 said...

    That place is filled with creepy 60+ year olds, now... Missionshk, jimbosballs, james1945,etc,

    Weird site.

    Word and that is vogt wants it, that place certainly sucks now but i still read it cause most of the posters i really liked still post there

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    LSUNoVa97443

  • dub-B said...

    Never doubted your Nole spirit my man.

    Werd

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    LSUNoVa97443

  • The schools themselves are to blame. Swofford is UNC grad, who becomes AD at UNC, and then they hired him to be commissioner. An qualified applicant from outside the conference should of been brought it. The ACC is just incestuous in how they run things.

    ErnieMcCracken

  • ErnieMcCracken said...

    The schools themselves are to blame. Swofford is UNC grad, who becomes AD at UNC, and then they hired him to be commissioner. An qualified applicant from outside the conference should of been brought it. The ACC is just incestuous in how they run things.

    Hard to blame the schools when he put himself before all the ACC schools including UNC

    Coastal Eer