College football realignment rumors: Dan Patrick discusses SEC possibilities to pursue
Dan Patrick, the syndicated radio show host, has kept up with the pulse of college football realignment rumors, and this week offered his perspective on the direction the SEC should take.
Patrick recalled that a source told him that the Big Ten media rights negotiations could include Notre Dame on some level. Patrick read from a Front Office Sports report about NBC pairing with Notre Dame and the Big Ten to be an NFL-like college football TV entity.
“If that happens, as I told you a couple weeks ago, then the SEC will make a move,” Patrick said. “From what I’m told, they’re going to go after Clemson, they would go after Florida State, and they would go after The U. They might even go after some other schools here. Now all of a sudden, it’s everybody on deck.”
Patrick also said that SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey would be on the show next Tuesday.
Patrick also said while the Big Ten and SEC are jockeying for teams to add, the Big 12 is considering “leftovers.”
The Big Ten and SEC are each looking to reach 20 teams, Patrick said.
The Big Ten’s media rights expire after the 2023 season. DP discusses the possibility of NBC making a run at the Big Ten in a conjunction with Notre Dame. pic.twitter.com/saS8Zpdup2
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) August 4, 2022
I’m not sure those comments are newsworthy.
THE SCHOOLS OF THE ACC AND NOTRE DAME ARE LOCKED INTO AN IRONCLAD CONTRACT IN WHICH THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH IF THEY TRIED TO BREAK IT.
FFS, I AM SICK AND TIRED OF HAVING TO SAY THIS TO IDIOTS IN THE CFB MEDIA WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
It’s just silly on their parts, but they just keep doing it.
Even though their is a “out” if ACC teams vote for it, I think that the media want to stir things so they have something to write about.
What out? What would the vote have to be? Their media rights holder would also have a say.
Any contract can be broken, if both sides want it to be. ESPN holds the rights to the ACC teams. Those that go to the SEC will still be with ESPN and they will be the teams that actually bring in the most revenue. So, ESPN could just let it go and not lose a whole lot in the process.
They would have to buy everyone else out that didn’t get a major conference deal. That’s well over $300 million per team.
No they wouldn’t. Only the school’s who want out have to pay the exit fees and grant of rights. Every school is on their own.
Major lawsuits on the way for breach of contract. That’s why no one from the ACC has even attempted to leave.
The ACC holds the GOR. Any team that leaves will have to pay the ACC. Not ESPN.
Any contract can be broken.
There are terms in contracts on what is required to break them. It normally involves large sums of money. In this case, very large.
I can’t listen to anybody with that many knick-knacks on his desk.
Yep, told ya the SEC has zero plans to stay at 14 or 16 if the Big wants to go to 20. Why does Greg even pretend he won’t react to what the Big decides??
Because Patrick said it. That’s funny.
This deal is to side step the ACC’s grant of rights. Once the ACC is dead, ND will be in the B1G. The SEC should be careful also. Texas is not in the SEC yet and B1G wants the Texas and Florida market. Who would not want to be on TV along side the NFL? This is a major earthquake when it happens. It’s more than the UCLA and USC news.
What deal?
The ND, NBC, B1G & NFL. NBC basically just put ND in the B1G. ND plays basically B1G schools every year with a few others thrown in to give them a few cupcake win. If the SEC doesn’t destroy the ACC, ND will just wait until the grant of rights runs out.
You seem quite confused. NBC didn’t do anything and you should check out the Notre Dame schedule.