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Oprah's flop of a network will have better content and ratings. ACC officials are simply in denial that their conference is dying a slow painful death.

ACC 24-hour network

Lmao

That says it all right there. Swofford gave away the third tier rights, those that the Big10 uses in their network and soon the SEC will use to form their network. So that either means wait 15 years or buy back the rights from ESPN (maybe they can use those $50 million exit fees ). Fifteen years will be far too late, the ACC could implode before then as revenue from networks by other conferences makes the current ACC media deal totally inadequate to compete.

Also there are only so many sports channels that the cable companies are going to want to carry, the Big10 stole a march on everyone else and leads the pack in revenue. The SEC has the clout and vision to put their own network out there now and is widely expected to announce it within the next year. That will suck the oxygen (the $$$$$) out of the room for lesser conferences. The PAC12 will likely follow (FOX would seem the likely partner), then the Big12 will merge with the Texas network and that will likely be the end of college conference TV networks with the ACC being left out in the cold.