ACC expansion

[billybud]

The flight from Raleigh to Syracuse is 4 hours (3 hours, 56 minutes) according to Expedia flights..

Raleigh to Dallas is 3 hours 16 minutes...same source.

And Raleigh to Tallahassee is 3 hours, 38 minutes

 

[WestHartHusk]

The flight from Raleigh to Syracuse is 4 hours (3 hours, 56 minutes) according to Expedia flights..

Raleigh to Dallas is 3 hours 16 minutes...same source.

And Raleigh to Tallahassee is 3 hours, 38 minutes

Nobody. Here. Cares. About. FSU. Or. What. It’s. Fans. Think. About. S-M-Freaking-U. The ACC is an Amway scam and FSU is a has been. Go whine about the deal you signed and justify adding 3 teams that water down every single sport elsewhere.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Nobody. Here. Cares. About. FSU. Or. What. It’s. Fans. Think. About. S-M-Freaking-U. The ACC is an Amway scam and FSU is a has been. Go whine about the deal you signed and justify adding 3 teams that water down every single sport elsewhere.

FSU just smoked a top 5 LSU team on primetime TV tonight

 

[WestCoastHusky]

I am hoping FSU go indy and sign a steaming deal with Amazon or something.

 

[baggerbob]

Academics went out the window when they took Louisville. Sorry.

North Carolina's 20 years of fake classes is the worst academic fraud since the years that Georgia was graduating illiterate players.

 

[baggerbob]

I am hoping FSU go indy and sign a steaming deal with Amazon or something.

When the Big contract comes up in 2029, there isn't going to be a big increase. Those days have gone by, in reality when things go to streaming and not locked in cable, the next contracts will be a lot less.

 

[jostar1]

I know he is a SEC homer. He called the demise of the PAC-12 earlier this year.

Paul Finebaum 'congratulates' ACC for essentially leading to its own demise with Cal, Stanford, SMU additions

For Paul Finebaum to crush the ACC, an ESPN product for the most part, that speaks volumes. You better believe Paul Finebaum was all fired up on the first seaso

fansided.com

Per Finebaum:

"I just want to congratulate the ACC for essentially voting out Clemson, North Carolina and Florida State because after what happened Friday with the admission of SMU, Cal and Stanford, they have essentially given those three a ticket out".

How does adding SMU, Cal and Stanford give them a ticket out? It did not change the GOR.

 

[CL82]

Per Finebaum:

"I just want to congratulate the ACC for essentially voting out Clemson, North Carolina and Florida State because after what happened Friday with the admission of SMU, Cal and Stanford, they have essentially given those three a ticket out".

How does adding SMU, Cal and Stanford give them a ticket out? It did not change the GOR.

Yeah it's not a ticket out so much as a middle finger to them.

 

[NE Football]

It gets the ACC-ESPN a late night window and it gets the ACCN into Cali and Texas. We should offer to take no media dollars for the next 13 years for a ACC invite. We will earn plenty of money from the ACC incentive pool.

 

[Zissou]

FSU just smoked a top 5 LSU team on primetime TV tonight

Early season rankings…

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Per Finebaum:

"I just want to congratulate the ACC for essentially voting out Clemson, North Carolina and Florida State because after what happened Friday with the admission of SMU, Cal and Stanford, they have essentially given those three a ticket out".

How does adding SMU, Cal and Stanford give them a ticket out? It did not change the GOR.

I could really care less what Finebaum has to say about anything.

Finebaum is one of the worst human beings in sports media in the last two decades. He has blatantly turned a blind eye to widespread cheating and occasionally illegal behavior by SEC schools because SEC football dominance drove ratings and page hits for him. This cheating was a really big deal, and moved hundreds of millions of revenue every year to the SEC.

With NIL, everyone can pay their players, so "cheating" no longer exists and is certainly not a competitive advantage, and we are seeing the end of SEC dominance. We are also seeing other cheater programs, like Louisville and Clemson, quickly fade back to the pack. It is funny how little coverage the impact of NIL gets on the cheater conference and other programs, but of course acknowledging that the game has completely changed in college football and basketball would be to also admit that Finebaum and others in the media were covering up the cheating in the first place.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

It gets the ACC-ESPN a late night window and it gets the ACCN into Cali and Texas. We should offer to take no media dollars for the next 13 years for a ACC invite. We will earn plenty of money from the ACC incentive pool.

UConn is better off going to the CFP directly and asking for a G5 pro rata share of the revenue. UConn will get it. The CFP is on such shaky legal ground that they will go along with any reasonable request.

There is also about a 90% chance that the Big East blows away the ACC in per capita NCAA Tournament units for the remainder of the decade.

 

[Rufus]

When the Big contract comes up in 2029, there isn't going to be a big increase. Those days have gone by, in reality when things go to streaming and not locked in cable, the next contracts will be a lot less.

Whatever the future looks like, both the B1G and SEC will hold the cards and make much more than everyone else.

If FOX, NBC and CBS are still looking for live sports content at the end of the decade, they will pay the B1G the big bucks. Likewise for ESPN and the SEC. Maybe more of that moves to streaming options, or is offered in both TV and streaming options, but those two conferences will smoke everyone else in terms of media revenue.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[WrenchFan69]

What a reasonable and sustainable world we live in

 

[JMick]

I wonder how many palms were greased to get the votes for this. It still doesn't make any sense.

 

[phillionaire]

What a reasonable and sustainable world we live in

definitely the sign of a healthy society when someone can lose hundreds of millions of dollars (for SMU sports) and not bat an eye

 

[uchusky32]

definitely the sign of a healthy society when someone can lose hundreds of millions of dollars (for SMU sports) and not bat an eye

Coming from post handle

 

[billybud]

A room full of boosters all worth 1000 million or more...whew !

And folks talked about Bob Knight and Oregon.

 

[Waquoit]

What a reasonable and sustainable world we live in

We need a wealth tax.