I’ve responded a couple of times that Michigan quitting the B1G for the ACC is a bad idea because of their long, low-paying TV contract and their grant-of-rights and exit penalty. But on second thought, the ACC might be a good landing spot. How about….
Cutting a deal with the ACC like Notre Dame…
Cutting a deal with the ACC like Notre Dame…
- Football remains independent, but all other men’s and women’s sports are full ACC members.
- Michigan agrees to play five ACC teams each season.
- Michigan does not get a full share of the ACC TV money. Rather, only a reduced share (for playing less than the normal 8 game ACC schedule.)
- Assuming that Michigan will always schedule 7-8 home games, cut a TV deal with say NBC for the rights to all home games other than ACC games.
- By getting payments for TV rights from both the ACC and our own contract, we could make more money than we’d be paid by the Big Ten. That’s what Notre Dame does now and is expecting to get TV payments from two sources comparable to the B1G payments per team .
- Make sure that we schedule Ohio State and Notre Dame every year as the financial “anchors” for our own TV deal.
- From an academic perspective, the ACC is a better conference for Michigan than the Big Ten.
- We don’t need the Big Ten Academic Alliance to get financial grants. We have been hugely successful without BTAA and there’s no reason that can’t continue.
