re: Pod-System for the SEC

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Why does everyone think .... one of the ACC schools would just up and leave their conference?

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it's naive, isn't it?

the ACC extended its media grant of rights in 2016 when it announced the 'acc network' deal with espn. the media grant of rights for ACC schools now runs through 2036.

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Swofford said league schools unanimously extended a grant-of-rights provision that gives the ACC control of media rights — and more importantly, the money that comes with them — for any school that choses to leave the conference for the duration of the ESPN deal.

It's a move designed to ensure the stability of the league since schools that go elsewhere wouldn't bring along their own media rights to enhance the TV package for a new conference home, said Dean Jordan, a global media managing executive with the Wasserman media group who represented the ACC in negotiations with ESPN.

The league typically receives and then distributes the media-rights revenues to member schools. In a hypothetical case, Jordan said, the ACC would keep the revenue for a team's home football game as the rights holder even if that team was playing in another league, then divide the departed school's amount among the remaining ACC schools.

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the SEC will look elsewhere - away from the ACC - for additional members if it ever expands again. fallout from a Big 12 collapse would be the most likely source for a 15th & 16th SEC member school - specifically Oklahoma State & Oklahoma U.

I don't see the upside - beyond scheduling - for the SEC ever being larger than 14 schools.

the next round of TV/streaming negotiations for SEC content will largely determine if revenue sharing among 16 schools would be better/worse than the current 14. I have zero confidence in Sankey striking a deal anywhere near what outgoing commish Delany inked for the Big Ten recently.