ACC approves Grant of Rights

[UCDaveD]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 2m
ACC presidents approve Grant of Rights thru 2026-27 sources tell @espn. B1G will have to look elsewhere. 1st reported by @DavidGlennShow

 

[OkaForPrez]

This is either really good, or really bad.

 

[specialisthusky]

This is either really good, or really bad.

If anyone can explain how this is in anyway really good I would love to hear it. Hopefully I am looking at this way to negatively, but the way I see it this eliminates expansion for all but maybe the Big 12 who I doubt it going to invite UConn.

Unless there is some insane way the Mizzou would leave the SEC for the B1G and UConn is #16 I do not see the B1G expanding due to all of the perceived tagets now locked into their respective conferences through GORs.

 

[uchusky]

That's a kick in the nuts. How did we end up in this situation???

 

[UCDaveD]

My first reaction was along the lines of "PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" I'd much rather go to the B1G, but let's be realistic, our best chances were having the B1G raid the ACC, thus getting us in there. Now what's our only real option? Hoping the B1G takes a flyer on us. Ugh. Not good.

 

[OkaForPrez]

There is only one piece of hope I'm clinging to. Uconn $. $ has now preceded two major realignment announcements. What did $ know ahead of this? Does this mean the B1g executes plan B? Does it mean two hop ship from the ACC before the padlock is closed? This means something for us, most of the scenarios are dire, but what about UC$?

 

[Excalibur]

This is either really good, or really bad.

Well, it's not the first one.

Reports say it was unanimous (which it needs to be). Means that FSU, UNC, UVA and Clemson are on board.

 

[SubbaBub]

UCONN and KU, the B12 would let them go.

Still say GoR isn't all it's promised to be.

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[OkaForPrez]

Well, it's not the first one.

Reports say it was unanimous (which it needs to be). Means that FSU, UNC, UVA and Clemson are on board.

Just put it in the context of the B1G, most of us believed that was not an option because of better choices on the table. Many of those choices just went up in smoke for the B1G. How bad do they want markets (we know this is their number 1 criteria (rutgers)? How important is it they continue to expand? BTN leadership has said they don't believe the B1g ever plays a game without adding two more teams into the fold. Was that presupposed only with ACC subsidies?

 

[Willy Gee]

UCONN and KU, the B12 would let them go.

Still say GoR isn't all it's promised to be.

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Why would the Big 12 just let KU go?

 

[Rumrunner]

"B1G will have to look elsewhere."

I don't care if we're Plan Z, let's hope "elsewhere" is us.

 

[tzznandrew]

Why would the Big 12 just let KU go?

Right. And replace them with who, exactly?

 

[The Funster]

We send a super secret email to the ACC saying that the B1G is ready to offer UConn an invite. We send a super secret email to the B1G saying that the ACC is ready to offer UConn an invite.

 

[Fishy]

This is either really good, or really bad.

That is exactly the size of it.

 

[Rumrunner]

One positive...not that BC ever had a prayer for the Big Ten, but this eliminates them from the BiG. As well as Syracuse and Pitt, both of whom were seriously flawed (syracuse market and academics, Pitt overlapping markets).

Only one northeast team left. Only one northeast team left. Paging walmart shoppers...

 

[CL82]

Dang it! Here we go again. F5.... F5...F5...

 

[huskymedic]

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/042213aaa.html

April 22, 2013
Greensboro, N.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents announced today that each of the current and future 15-member institutions has signed a grant of media rights, effective immediately. "This announcement further highlights the continued solidarity and commitment by our member institutions," said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. "The Council of Presidents has shown tremendous leadership in insuring the ACC is extremely well positioned with unlimited potential."

"The ACC has long been a leader in intercollegiate athletics, both academically and athletically," said the collective ACC Council of Presidents. "Collectively, we all agree the grant of rights further positions the ACC and its current and future member schools as one of the nation's premier conferences."

The ACC's current and future 15-member institutions include:

Boston College
Clemson University
Duke University
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Louisville
University of Miami
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State University
University of Notre Dame
University of Pittsburgh
Syracuse University
University of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Wake Forest University

About the Atlantic Coast Conference:
The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 60th year of competition, has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. Since the league’s inception in 1953, ACC schools have captured 127 national championships, including 67 in women’s competition and 60 in men’s. In addition, NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC student-athletes 146 times in men’s competition and 102 times in women’s action. For more information, visit theACC.com.

 

[Fairfield 1st]

I go away and come back to this!!! Well, this board was fun to follow, but now looks like realignment is done for the foreseeable future (just being realistic, there is no credbile evidence the BiG feels it actually needs to expand further)

 

[Fairfield 1st]

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/042213aaa.html

April 22, 2013
Greensboro, N.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents announced today that each of the current and future 15-member institutions has signed a grant of media rights, effective immediately. "This announcement further highlights the continued solidarity and commitment by our member institutions," said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. "The Council of Presidents has shown tremendous leadership in insuring the ACC is extremely well positioned with unlimited potential."

"The ACC has long been a leader in intercollegiate athletics, both academically and athletically," said the collective ACC Council of Presidents. "Collectively, we all agree the grant of rights further positions the ACC and its current and future member schools as one of the nation's premier conferences."

The ACC's current and future 15-member institutions include:

Boston College
Clemson University
Duke University
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Louisville
University of Miami
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State University
University of Notre Dame
University of Pittsburgh
Syracuse University
University of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Wake Forest University

About the Atlantic Coast Conference:
The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 60th year of competition, has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. Since the league’s inception in 1953, ACC schools have captured 127 national championships, including 67 in women’s competition and 60 in men’s. In addition, NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC student-athletes 146 times in men’s competition and 102 times in women’s action. For more information, visit theACC.com.

And destroyer of worlds.....

 

[CL82]

Devil is in the details. Grant to whom, the conference? Any conditions?

Does this really tell us that the $50M penalty clause is ineffective?

 

[HuskyHawk]

UCONN and KU, the B12 would let them go.

Still say GoR isn't all it's promised to be.

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My dream scenario. Big 12 would not let them go. They are desperate for two more teams as it is. KU is probably the 2nd best known national brand they have after Texas.

The B1G will likely pause. Only real option now is UConn and Mizzou.
Meanwhile the Big 12 now knows there will be no leftovers. That means either they come to UConn and/or Cinci or they head west for Nevada, BYU, New Mexico...

 

[huskymedic]

DavidTeelatDP 2:42pm via TweetDeck
End game: #ACC added #NotreDame, swapped Maryland for Louisville and closed door. #helluvadeal

 

[zls44]

Maybe now people will finally get it- the ACC never, ever wants UConn. Period.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Eh.

Say what you want but the whole realignment mess has shown that contracts ain't worth the paper their written on.

All this says to me is that the ACC is united as of today and for today only. Who knows what tomorrow brings.

 

[The Funster]

If the ACC is smart, they'd just take UConn. That would get them to 16 for all sports except FB with whom they have a scheduling tie-in anyways. The ACC has to know that BC does nothing in New England and that with Rutgers in the B1G, they stand a chance of losing shares in NYC. Look at a map: ACC has a semi circle around NYC with BC, Cuse and Pitt. Take the bullseye, ACC, take UConn.