College football's sleeping giant awakens.

IanS

Nivek said:
100M per year at the time, enough content to fill those 3 channels and make people subscribe(wonder if FX would evolved more as TNT ITTL now), that is a big league business
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The plan for football is that Fox will have a triple header, FX will get Friday Night Lights and a gameon Saturday, and FSN will get the leftover games.
 

ejpsan

First up in the raiding wars was the ACC who the object of an intense bidding war between ABC/ESPN, CBS, FOX, TBS/TNT/WB and DirecTV.
DirecTV offered the most money but the least coverage and ABC/ESPN was chosen over the TBS/TNT/WB even through they offered more money.
The contract was "slightly more" money then the ECC contract but a rider in the contract gave a bump in payments if certain schools joined the ACC.
Miami, Florida St, and Maryland were the first targets of the ACC with each school promised a premium over the life of the contract.
The Big 10 was going hard after Penn St to make it the 14nth school in the conference but they wanted them in before they negotiated their next contract to maximize their leverage.
The SEC was set but it wouldn't be upset if Vanderbilt decided to go after easier game and with the no raiding pact the obvious conference choice of the ACC was not in the cards.
 

ejpsan

Nivek said:
Can we reverse raid the ACC, just to teach them some manners?
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The ECC wants schools in as large of metro markets as possible, Clemson is a possibility as it is close to Charlotte, NC also NC St in Raleigh but I don't see any other schools that would would fit that criteria.
 

IanS

ejpsan said:
The ECC wants schools in as large of metro markets as possible, Clemson is a possibility as it is close to Charlotte, NC also NC St in Raleigh but I don't see any other schools that would would fit that criteria.
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Georgia Tech brings in Atlanta
 

IanS

While this has slowed down... here's the radio call of the "Collins Fling" in the inaugural ECC Championship Game

"5 seconds left, ball at the 45, Penn State is down to their last gasp.. Collins drops back. Pressure coming! He rolls out of the pocket! This could decide it! Collins heaves it down the field! And it will be CAUGHT IN THE ENDZONE BY JUREVICIUS! PENN STATE WINS! PENN STATE WINS!"
 

IanS

Okay, for 1996-1998, nothing of note happens in the ECC.

So here are the football Champions:

1996: FSU (Conference runner up is Penn State)

1997: FSU (Penn State is runner up again)

1998: FSU wins again (Penn State is runner up again)
 
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