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College Football overtook Basketball as the draw since 1990.


Gene Corrigan saw that coming, and it has carried through with John Swofford. Every move made with ACC Expansion was to gain football and gain geographic footprint. It can be argued that Gene Corrigan messed up by missing out on Penn State. But I don't know if Joe Paterno would have seen the ACC as desirable in 1990. The ACC was very basketball centric in 1990.

In 2002, the ACC got a lucrative television deal because FSU and Miami had just both been to multiple national championship games. Television saw value in that. By 2010, the ACC had lost about a dozen BCS bowls and had a very hard time putting teams in the top 10. The deal was bad, but the ACC was dreadful in football in 2010 as well. You're not getting a good deal with dreadful football.

The resume has been boosted with improved football for whomever makes the next deal which will coincide with the 2022 contract "look-in". I think Swofford will be gone by then. And the combined football and basketball resume should help sell the network.

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Posted: 04/10/2017 at 1:21PM



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