re: Florida State's in dire financial straits right now

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The ACC is a basketball conference, face it. Im sure the contract that ESPN has with the ACC includes wording that the total amount ESPN pays out can be lessen if total viewership drops beyond an acceptable level. The bean counters in Bristol, Ct don't GAS about football.

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Viewership means nothing when you peg payments to in-state conference viewers, who are forced to pay for those channels, like it or not.

That's how TV contracts have been set up for cable and which is why Rutgers was added to the Big 10 and SMU, the University of Houston or Texas Tech would've done the same thing for the SEC cable TV contracts as aggy.