Define “forced into a conference.” If the benefits outweigh
by 1NDGal (2020-08-01 21:05:31)

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the compulsion, then what is the anticompetitive harm?

And who is going to lodge a Sherman II claim of group boycott? Savvy? Nope.

Explain what those benefits are.
by VT2ND  (2020-08-02 20:05:40)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

The harm is easy. For one, we would have to forfeit our media rights to be part of a conference collective where conference members are part of a single media package and split money equally. Us into the ACC would dramatically increase the value of its TV contracts, and that money gets split evenly. Great for Wake Forest, bad for us.
Every P5 team already makes more tv deal $ than ND.
by SavageDragon  (2020-08-03 13:03:37)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Yes, our entrance would increase the value of the ACC rights deal, certainly. But their existing deal is already more, so we'd see a TV revenue increase from joining:

Each full ACC school gets $30MM already. ND gets about $8MM from the ACC and between $15-20MM from NBC.

(This isn't an argument that we should join a conference, for the record.)
ACC could make a case that ND would make more $$ as a
by 1NDGal  (2020-08-03 08:16:43)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

football member than what it makes now.

First, though, an anticompetitive act must be alleged. Swarbrick would never do it.