Florida State Board of Trustees Chairman blasted ACC.

[baxao]

ACC surrendered all third tier television rights for football to ESPN/ABC but kept them for men's basketball. That arrangement will likely result in substantial revenue for schools with a strong basketball following like North Carolina and Duke.On the other hand, it will do very little for schools with a more traditional football following like FSU, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Miami.

http://floridastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1364755

[tallahasseehokie]

ACC surrendered all third tier television rights for football to ESPN/ABC but kept them for men's basketball. That arrangement will likely result in substantial revenue for schools with a strong basketball following like North Carolina and Duke.On the other hand, it will do very little for schools with a more traditional football following like FSU, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Miami.

http://floridastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1364755

Someone please educate me on tv rights, why would the acc package be more advantageous to the NC schools? I thought these tv rights "packages were share and share alike"?

[baxao]

Third tier rights are for any games not selected by the first or second-tier rights. Third tier rights are often sold per school basis to regional networks and not negotiated by the conference (ACC in this case).

The ESPN contract includes third tier rights revenue but not basketball. ESPN will sell the third tier football rights to regional networks.

[gern]

so basically FSU is admitting they aren't good enough to be on either tier 1 or tier 2 regularly. Must be a big market for a 3-4 loss in conf FSU team playing Duke, MD, etc. If FSU was what they apparently still think they are, this would probably be a lot less of a deal to them.

[hokie_jayhawk]

so basically FSU is admitting they aren't good enough to be on either tier 1 or tier 2 regularly. Must be a big market for a 3-4 loss in conf FSU team playing Duke, MD, etc. If FSU was what they apparently still think they are, this would probably be a lot less of a deal to them.

Kansas has arguably been the best national basketball program over the last 5 years, yet they still play about 10 games a year that aren't picked up one a first or 2nd tier basis so they make millions off these tier 3 games. The top programs will have games that aren't chosen, and when that happens, they'll make a heck of a lot more off tier 3 than Florida State will.

[gern]

doesn't KU play like 40 BB games? So 1/4 of the games aren't covered by T1-T2. If FSU was better in the ACC, they'd probably only have 2 (max) games not covered. But alas they aren't the FSU from the 90s anymore. They are not VT from the 00s either. Their self image is about as realistic right now as the Domers'.

[HOKIE-SAN]

doesn't KU play like 40 BB games? So 1/4 of the games aren't covered by T1-T2. If FSU was better in the ACC, they'd probably only have 2 (max) games not covered. But alas they aren't the FSU from the 90s anymore. They are not VT from the 00s either. Their self image is about as realistic right now as the Domers'.

But those games could still mean an additional $2M to $5M to the program, depending on the program, nothing to scoff at. The big programs make anywhere from $5M to $7M a year in Tier 3 programming rights. For example, NCST negotiated a $4.9M/year contract over 10 years to a regional network, that's big bucks.

[Nortazhokie]

Andy Bitter weighs in on the FSU rumors.

http://blogs.roanoke.com/andybitterv...ness-for-real/

[BUGGZY]

But those games could still mean an additional $2M to $5M to the program, depending on the program, nothing to scoff at. The big programs make anywhere from $5M to $7M a year in Tier 3 programming rights. For example, NCST negotiated a $4.9M/year contract over 10 years to a regional network, that's big bucks.

if NCSU did that, than FSU is free to do it as well. both schools have the exact same Tier 3 rights available to them...just saying...

[corvt2000]

No, but FSU duke, FSU bc etc aren't tier 1 or 2 at any time, so if they can package their tier 3 and sell it they can make bank. And in the big 12 they would have more tier 1 or 2 games.